diff --git a/clarifai/runners/models/model_run_locally.py b/clarifai/runners/models/model_run_locally.py
index 6164a4bf..d83fa326 100644
--- a/clarifai/runners/models/model_run_locally.py
+++ b/clarifai/runners/models/model_run_locally.py
@@ -224,6 +224,7 @@ def _run_test(self):
         nodepool_id="n/a",
         compute_cluster_id="n/a",
         user_id="n/a",
+        health_check_port=None,
     )
     # send an inference.
     self._run_model_inference(runner)
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 6fb2f9b2..dec59390 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-clarifai-grpc>=11.0.4
-clarifai-protocol>=0.0.14
+clarifai-grpc>=11.0.5
+clarifai-protocol>=0.0.16
 numpy>=1.22.0
 tqdm>=4.65.0
 rich>=13.4.2
diff --git a/tests/runners/hf_mbart_model/requirements.txt b/tests/runners/hf_mbart_model/requirements.txt
index fdb027d6..63d7193f 100644
--- a/tests/runners/hf_mbart_model/requirements.txt
+++ b/tests/runners/hf_mbart_model/requirements.txt
@@ -4,4 +4,4 @@ transformers>=4.44
 accelerate>=1.0.1
 optimum>=1.20.0
 sentencepiece==0.2.0
-requests==2.23.0
+requests
diff --git a/tests/runners/test_runners.py b/tests/runners/test_runners.py
index ceb2a90e..a9aae234 100644
--- a/tests/runners/test_runners.py
+++ b/tests/runners/test_runners.py
@@ -183,6 +183,7 @@ def setup_class(cls):
         num_parallel_polls=1,
         base_url=cls.AUTH.base,
         user_id=cls.AUTH.user_id,
+        health_check_port=None,
     )
     cls.thread = threading.Thread(target=cls.runner.start)
     cls.thread.daemon = True  # close when python closes
@@ -499,6 +500,7 @@ def setup_class(cls):
         num_parallel_polls=1,
         base_url=cls.AUTH.base,
         user_id=cls.AUTH.user_id,
+        health_check_port=None,
     )
     cls.model = Model(
         user_id=cls.AUTH.user_id,