diff --git a/kokoro/github/ubuntu/cpu/newest_stable/presubmit.cfg b/kokoro/github/ubuntu/cpu/newest_stable/presubmit.cfg
index ede128c9..040dee04 100644
--- a/kokoro/github/ubuntu/cpu/newest_stable/presubmit.cfg
+++ b/kokoro/github/ubuntu/cpu/newest_stable/presubmit.cfg
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ build_file: "gnn/kokoro/github/ubuntu/cpu/build_versioned.sh"
 
 env_vars: {
   key: "PYTHON_VERSION"
-  value: "3.11"
+  value: "3.12"
 }
 env_vars: {
   key: "TF_VERSION"
diff --git a/requirements-dev.txt b/requirements-dev.txt
index 1c2a0468..5773c671 100644
--- a/requirements-dev.txt
+++ b/requirements-dev.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,2 @@
 mock
 wheel
-torch_geometric
-torch < 2
\ No newline at end of file