diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 56852615ed..7b5ddc21ff 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ optional-dependencies.extra = [
   "datasets>=2.18,<4",
   # download:
   "huggingface-hub[hf-transfer]>=0.21",
-  "litdata==0.2.59",
+  "litdata==0.2.61",
   # litgpt logging:
   "litlogger>=0.1.7",
   # litgpt.deploy: