diff --git a/charms/istio-gateway/requirements.in b/charms/istio-gateway/requirements.in
index 75674524..b3125e5c 100644
--- a/charms/istio-gateway/requirements.in
+++ b/charms/istio-gateway/requirements.in
@@ -3,6 +3,6 @@ ops
 requests
 serialized-data-interface
 lightkube
-lightkube-models<1.28
+lightkube-models<1.30
 # We're trying to use a deprecated API and it needs to be fixed before KF 1.7 (because 1.7 must support k8s 1.25)
 oci-image
diff --git a/charms/istio-pilot/requirements.in b/charms/istio-pilot/requirements.in
index db8e9046..ca0aac37 100644
--- a/charms/istio-pilot/requirements.in
+++ b/charms/istio-pilot/requirements.in
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ lightkube
 # Pinning lightkube-models to keep compatibility with istio 1.17
 # which supports versions 1.23, 1.24, 1.25, 1.26 of k8s
 # Update the pin when this charm is upgraded to <=1.18
-lightkube-models<1.27
+lightkube-models<1.30
 ops
 packaging
 requests