diff --git a/chains.py b/chains.py
index 9ad10f406..f27677ae4 100644
--- a/chains.py
+++ b/chains.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 from langchain_openai import OpenAIEmbeddings
 from langchain_community.embeddings import OllamaEmbeddings
 from langchain_community.embeddings import BedrockEmbeddings
-from langchain_community.embeddings.sentence_transformer import SentenceTransformerEmbeddings
+from langchain_community.embeddings.huggingface import HuggingFaceEmbeddings
 
 from langchain_openai import ChatOpenAI
 from langchain_community.chat_models import ChatOllama
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ def load_embedding_model(embedding_model_name: str, logger=BaseLogger(), config=
         dimension = 768
         logger.info("Embedding: Using Google Generative AI Embeddings")
     else:
-        embeddings = SentenceTransformerEmbeddings(
+        embeddings = HuggingFaceEmbeddings(
             model_name="all-MiniLM-L6-v2", cache_folder="/embedding_model"
         )
         dimension = 384
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index ad0f6f905..93d867fc3 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ wikipedia
 tiktoken
 neo4j
 streamlit
-sentence_transformers==2.2.2
+sentence_transformers==2.6.0
 Pillow
 fastapi
 PyPDF2
@@ -14,6 +14,9 @@ uvicorn
 sse-starlette
 boto3
 # missing from the langchain base image?
+ langchain-huggingface==0.0.2
+langchain-core==0.2.1
 langchain-openai
-langchain-community
+langchain-community==0.2.1
 langchain-google-genai
+# Do more of these versions need to be fixed?