diff --git a/requirements/app/base.txt b/requirements/app/base.txt
index 515e53d5d5e7b..9905c377db536 100644
--- a/requirements/app/base.txt
+++ b/requirements/app/base.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-lightning-cloud>=0.5.31
+lightning-cloud>=0.5.33
 packaging
 typing-extensions>=4.0.0, <=4.4.0
 deepdiff>=5.7.0, <6.2.4
@@ -12,15 +12,16 @@ beautifulsoup4>=4.8.0, <4.11.2
 inquirer>=2.10.0, <=3.1.2
 psutil<5.9.5
 click<=8.1.3
-fastapi<0.89.0  # strict; TODO: broken serializations
+
+fastapi>=0.69.0,<0.89.0  # strict; TODO: broken serializations
+starlette  # https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/deployment/versions/#about-starlette
+pydantic>=1.7.4,<2.0.0  # https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/deployment/versions/#about-pydantic
 
 dateutils<=0.6.12
 Jinja2<=3.1.2
-pydantic<=1.10.4
 PyYAML<=6.0
 requests<2.28.3
 rich >=12.3.0, <=13.0.1
-starlette<0.24.0
 urllib3<=1.26.13
 uvicorn<=0.17.6
 websocket-client<1.5.2
diff --git a/requirements/app/test.txt b/requirements/app/test.txt
index 95925b0f38a9b..c6204418062b1 100644
--- a/requirements/app/test.txt
+++ b/requirements/app/test.txt
@@ -7,9 +7,8 @@ pytest-doctestplus>=0.9.0
 pytest-asyncio==0.20.3
 playwright==1.30.0
 httpx
-trio<0.22.0
+trio<0.22.0  # strict https://github.com/python-trio/trio/pull/2213
 pympler
 psutil
 setuptools<67.7.0
-sqlmodel
 requests-mock
diff --git a/tests/tests_app/components/serve/test_model_inference_api.py b/tests/tests_app/components/serve/test_model_inference_api.py
index cf33ce7601809..0b0353a234d76 100644
--- a/tests/tests_app/components/serve/test_model_inference_api.py
+++ b/tests/tests_app/components/serve/test_model_inference_api.py
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 import pytest
 
 from lightning.app.components.serve import serve
+from lightning.app.testing.helpers import _RunIf
 from lightning.app.utilities.imports import _is_numpy_available, _is_torch_available
 from lightning.app.utilities.network import _configure_session, find_free_network_port
 from tests_app import _PROJECT_ROOT
@@ -33,6 +34,9 @@ def target_fn(port, workers):
 
 @pytest.mark.skipif(not (_is_torch_available() and _is_numpy_available()), reason="Missing torch and numpy")
 @pytest.mark.parametrize("workers", [0])
+# avoid the error: Failed to establish a new connection: [WinError 10061] No connection could be made because the
+# target machine actively refused it
+@_RunIf(skip_windows=True)
 def test_model_inference_api(workers):
 
     port = find_free_network_port()