diff --git a/.github/workflows/unit-tests.yml b/.github/workflows/unit-tests.yml
index b0b2d1326c21..d76a504f6587 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/unit-tests.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/unit-tests.yml
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@ jobs:
           - "3.11"
         django-version:
           - "pinned"
-          - "5.2"
         # When updating the shards, remember to make the same changes in
         # .github/workflows/unit-tests-gh-hosted.yml
         shard_name:
diff --git a/requirements/constraints.txt b/requirements/constraints.txt
index fa89120cca63..5dfa6020535f 100644
--- a/requirements/constraints.txt
+++ b/requirements/constraints.txt
@@ -19,9 +19,9 @@
 # Issue for unpinning: https://github.com/openedx/edx-platform/issues/35280
 celery>=5.2.2,<6.0.0
 
-# Date: 2024-02-02
-# Stay on LTS version, remove once this is added to common constraint
-Django<5.0
+# Date: 2026-08-11
+# Stay on LTS version
+Django<6.0
 
 # Date: 2020-02-10
 # django-oauth-toolkit version >=2.0.0 has breaking changes. More details
@@ -142,3 +142,9 @@ pact-python<3.0.0
 # deploy edxapp to edx.org using python 3.11, we must pin sphinx-autoapi to avoid dependency
 # conflicts. Remove this constraint once we migrate to python 3.12.
 sphinx-autoapi<3.6.1
+
+# Date 2026-08-11
+# pip 26.2 and pip-tools 7.6.0 are not compatible.
+# See: https://github.com/jazzband/pip-tools/issues/2437
+
+pip<26.2
diff --git a/requirements/pip-tools.txt b/requirements/pip-tools.txt
index e97cb1b3d356..2751a16e008c 100644
--- a/requirements/pip-tools.txt
+++ b/requirements/pip-tools.txt
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ click==8.3.0
     # via pip-tools
 packaging==25.0
     # via build
-pip-tools==7.5.1
+pip-tools==7.6.0
     # via -r requirements/pip-tools.in
 pyproject-hooks==1.2.0
     # via