diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 050d16b..6283ad2 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -22,8 +22,15 @@ classifiers = [
 ]
 dependencies = [
     "faststream>=0.7.6,<0.8",
-    "redis>=5.0",
-    "typing-extensions>=4.12.0",
+    # 5.0.1 is the first release with Redis.aclose, which the broker calls on teardown.
+    "redis>=5.0.1",
+    # Not imported here: faststream pulls pydantic through fast-depends[pydantic], and pydantic-core
+    # ships no cp314 wheel before pydantic 2.12, so the lowest declared combination has no
+    # installable pydantic on 3.14.
+    "pydantic>=2.12; python_version >= '3.14'",
+    # 4.12.2, not 4.12.0: pydantic requires >=4.12.2 on 3.13+, and pinning 4.12.0 drags pydantic
+    # back to a build whose pydantic-core has no cp313 wheel either.
+    "typing-extensions>=4.12.2",
 ]
 
 [dependency-groups]