ENH: Allow newer version of dependencies (#1748)

Pinning basic packages such as "requests" to a specific patch level release such "2.31.0" is too strict. New releases and especially new patch releases allow to use latest security updates of various packages.

Signed-off-by: James Butler <james.butler@revvity.com>
Co-authored-by: SACHIDANAND ALLE <sachidanand.alle@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: YunLiu <55491388+KumoLiu@users.noreply.github.com>

setup.cfg

@@ -36,40 +36,40 @@ setup_requires =
     ninja
 install_requires =
     monai[nibabel, skimage, pillow, tensorboard, gdown, ignite, torchvision, itk, tqdm, lmdb, psutil, openslide, fire, mlflow]>=1.3.1
-    uvicorn==0.29.0
-    pydantic==2.7.0
-    pydantic-settings==2.2.1
-    python-dotenv==1.0.1
-    fastapi==0.110.2
-    python-multipart==0.0.9
-    httpx==0.27.0
-    schedule==1.2.1
-    dicomweb-client[gcp]==0.59.1
-    timeloop==1.0.2
-    expiringdict==1.2.2
-    expiring_dict==1.1.0
-    cachetools==5.3.3
-    watchdog==4.0.0
-    pydicom==2.4.4
-    pydicom-seg==0.4.1
-    pynetdicom==2.0.2
-    pynrrd==1.0.0
-    numpymaxflow==0.0.6
-    girder-client==3.2.3
-    ninja==1.11.1.1
-    einops==0.7.0
-    pyyaml==6.0.1
-    filelock==3.11.0
-    passlib==1.7.4
-    pyjwt==2.8.0
-    bcrypt==4.1.2
-    shapely==2.0.4
-    requests==2.31.0
-    requests-toolbelt==1.0.0
-    urllib3==2.2.1
+    uvicorn>=0.29.0
+    pydantic>=2.7.0
+    pydantic-settings>=2.2.1
+    python-dotenv>=1.0.1
+    fastapi>=0.110.2
+    python-multipart>=0.0.9
+    httpx>=0.27.0
+    schedule>=1.2.1
+    dicomweb-client[gcp]>=0.59.1
+    timeloop>=1.0.2
+    expiringdict>=1.2.2
+    expiring_dict>=1.1.0
+    cachetools>=5.3.3
+    watchdog>=4.0.0
+    pydicom>=2.4.4
+    pydicom-seg>=0.4.1
+    pynetdicom>=2.0.2
+    pynrrd>=1.0.0
+    numpymaxflow>=0.0.6
+    girder-client>=3.2.3
+    ninja>=1.11.1.1
+    einops>=0.7.0
+    pyyaml>=6.0.1
+    filelock>=3.11.0
+    passlib>=1.7.4
+    pyjwt>=2.8.0
+    bcrypt>=4.1.2
+    shapely>=2.0.4
+    requests>=2.31.0
+    requests-toolbelt>=1.0.0
+    urllib3>=2.2.1
     scikit-learn
     scipy
-    google-auth==2.29.0
+    google-auth>=2.29.0
 
 [flake8]
 select = B,C,E,F,N,P,T4,W,B9