diff --git a/requirements/common_constraints.txt b/requirements/common_constraints.txt
index ef8bc86061b7..605871970bd8 100644
--- a/requirements/common_constraints.txt
+++ b/requirements/common_constraints.txt
@@ -26,15 +26,6 @@ elasticsearch<7.14.0
 
 # django-simple-history>3.0.0 adds indexing and causes a lot of migrations to be affected
 
-# opentelemetry requires version 6.x at the moment:
-# https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python/issues/3570
-# Normally this could be added as a constraint in edx-django-utils, where we're
-# adding the opentelemetry dependency. However, when we compile pip-tools.txt,
-# that uses version 7.x, and then there's no undoing that when compiling base.txt.
-# So we need to pin it globally, for now.
-# Ticket for unpinning: https://github.com/openedx/edx-lint/issues/407
-importlib-metadata<7
-
 # Cause: https://github.com/openedx/event-tracking/pull/290
 # event-tracking 2.4.1 upgrades to pymongo 4.4.0 which is not supported on edx-platform.
 # We will pin event-tracking to do not break existing installations
diff --git a/requirements/edx-sandbox/base.txt b/requirements/edx-sandbox/base.txt
index d12c994fd206..ee643b98b8cf 100644
--- a/requirements/edx-sandbox/base.txt
+++ b/requirements/edx-sandbox/base.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #
-# This file is autogenerated by pip-compile with Python 3.8
+# This file is autogenerated by pip-compile with Python 3.11
 # by the following command:
 #
 #    make upgrade
@@ -22,8 +22,6 @@ cycler==0.12.1
     # via matplotlib
 fonttools==4.51.0
     # via matplotlib
-importlib-resources==6.4.0
-    # via matplotlib
 joblib==1.4.2
     # via nltk
 kiwisolver==1.4.5
@@ -89,5 +87,3 @@ sympy==1.12
     #   openedx-calc
 tqdm==4.66.4
     # via nltk
-zipp==3.18.1
-    # via importlib-resources
diff --git a/requirements/edx/coverage.txt b/requirements/edx/coverage.txt
index e150dc3fe238..f583ff90d4f1 100644
--- a/requirements/edx/coverage.txt
+++ b/requirements/edx/coverage.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #
-# This file is autogenerated by pip-compile with Python 3.8
+# This file is autogenerated by pip-compile with Python 3.11
 # by the following command:
 #
 #    make upgrade
diff --git a/requirements/edx/paver.txt b/requirements/edx/paver.txt
index e099e333ea96..ea620f96d377 100644
--- a/requirements/edx/paver.txt
+++ b/requirements/edx/paver.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #
-# This file is autogenerated by pip-compile with Python 3.8
+# This file is autogenerated by pip-compile with Python 3.11
 # by the following command:
 #
 #    make upgrade
diff --git a/requirements/pip-tools.txt b/requirements/pip-tools.txt
index 4b631a73d780..450660d8adfb 100644
--- a/requirements/pip-tools.txt
+++ b/requirements/pip-tools.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #
-# This file is autogenerated by pip-compile with Python 3.8
+# This file is autogenerated by pip-compile with Python 3.11
 # by the following command:
 #
 #    make upgrade
@@ -10,10 +10,6 @@ click==8.1.6
     # via
     #   -c requirements/constraints.txt
     #   pip-tools
-importlib-metadata==6.11.0
-    # via
-    #   -c requirements/common_constraints.txt
-    #   build
 packaging==24.0
     # via build
 pip-tools==7.4.1
@@ -22,14 +18,8 @@ pyproject-hooks==1.1.0
     # via
     #   build
     #   pip-tools
-tomli==2.0.1
-    # via
-    #   build
-    #   pip-tools
 wheel==0.43.0
     # via pip-tools
-zipp==3.18.1
-    # via importlib-metadata
 
 # The following packages are considered to be unsafe in a requirements file:
 # pip
diff --git a/requirements/pip.txt b/requirements/pip.txt
index e3ffcc7b6daf..32427cdbdd18 100644
--- a/requirements/pip.txt
+++ b/requirements/pip.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #
-# This file is autogenerated by pip-compile with Python 3.8
+# This file is autogenerated by pip-compile with Python 3.11
 # by the following command:
 #
 #    make upgrade