Adjust requirements file and dependabot versioning strategy (#1978)

* relax deps test with upperbounds

* relax deps test with upperbounds

* rolling back to inc-if-nec as pip does not has support for widen

* change version strat to auto

* update release note

.github/dependabot.yml

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ updates:
     directory: "/package" # Location of package manifests
     schedule:
       interval: "monthly"
-    versioning-strategy: increase-if-necessary
+    versioning-strategy: auto
     ignore:
       - dependency-name: "types-*"
     labels:

RELEASE.md

@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ Please follow the established format:
 - Add "-p" flag to kedro-viz to match kedro run. (#1960)
 - Fix bug related to nested namespace pipelines. (#1897)
 - Migrate from `toposort` to `graphlib`. (#1942)
+- Adjust requirements file and dependabot versioning strategy. (#1978)
 
 # Release 9.1.0
 

package/requirements.txt

@@ -5,13 +5,13 @@ fsspec>=2021.4
 ipython>=7.0.0, <9.0
 kedro>=0.18.0
 networkx>=2.5
-orjson~=3.9
+orjson>=3.9, <4.0
 packaging>=23.0
 pandas>=1.3
 plotly>=4.0
 pydantic>=2.0.0
 secure>=0.3.0
 sqlalchemy>=1.4, <3
 strawberry-graphql>=0.192.0, <1.0
-uvicorn[standard]~=0.30.0
-watchgod~=0.8.2
+uvicorn[standard]>=0.30.0, <1.0
+watchgod>=0.8.2, <1.0