diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 05f4af5f5c..185662efc1 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
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 hf = ["huggingface-hub>=0.24.0"]
 pyiceberg-core = ["pyiceberg-core>=0.5.1,<0.8.0"]
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diff --git a/uv.lock b/uv.lock
index 51f5c3c867..76f70505c5 100644
--- a/uv.lock
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