diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 51fd698e9..c0909bbd9 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ Repository = "https://github.com/crewAIInc/crewAI"
 
 [project.optional-dependencies]
 tools = [
-    "crewai-tools>=0.74.0",
+    "crewai-tools>=0.76.0",
 ]
 embeddings = [
     "tiktoken~=0.8.0"
diff --git a/src/crewai/__init__.py b/src/crewai/__init__.py
index 1333f1d85..ffc7aa844 100644
--- a/src/crewai/__init__.py
+++ b/src/crewai/__init__.py
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ def _suppress_pydantic_deprecation_warnings() -> None:
 
 _suppress_pydantic_deprecation_warnings()
 
-__version__ = "0.201.1"
+__version__ = "0.203.0"
 _telemetry_submitted = False
 
 
diff --git a/src/crewai/cli/templates/crew/pyproject.toml b/src/crewai/cli/templates/crew/pyproject.toml
index 55316d76a..0f26e0a24 100644
--- a/src/crewai/cli/templates/crew/pyproject.toml
+++ b/src/crewai/cli/templates/crew/pyproject.toml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ description = "{{name}} using crewAI"
 authors = [{ name = "Your Name", email = "you@example.com" }]
 requires-python = ">=3.10,<3.14"
 dependencies = [
-    "crewai[tools]>=0.201.1,<1.0.0"
+    "crewai[tools]>=0.203.0,<1.0.0"
 ]
 
 [project.scripts]
diff --git a/src/crewai/cli/templates/flow/pyproject.toml b/src/crewai/cli/templates/flow/pyproject.toml
index fe2abeddb..75e0240f7 100644
--- a/src/crewai/cli/templates/flow/pyproject.toml
+++ b/src/crewai/cli/templates/flow/pyproject.toml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ description = "{{name}} using crewAI"
 authors = [{ name = "Your Name", email = "you@example.com" }]
 requires-python = ">=3.10,<3.14"
 dependencies = [
-    "crewai[tools]>=0.201.1,<1.0.0",
+    "crewai[tools]>=0.203.0,<1.0.0",
 ]
 
 [project.scripts]
diff --git a/src/crewai/cli/templates/tool/pyproject.toml b/src/crewai/cli/templates/tool/pyproject.toml
index dfaa47fe5..70d0cf5f9 100644
--- a/src/crewai/cli/templates/tool/pyproject.toml
+++ b/src/crewai/cli/templates/tool/pyproject.toml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ description = "Power up your crews with {{folder_name}}"
 readme = "README.md"
 requires-python = ">=3.10,<3.14"
 dependencies = [
-    "crewai[tools]>=0.201.1"
+    "crewai[tools]>=0.203.0"
 ]
 
 [tool.crewai]
diff --git a/uv.lock b/uv.lock
index 238a97900..f0f457949 100644
--- a/uv.lock
+++ b/uv.lock
@@ -743,7 +743,7 @@ requires-dist = [
     { name = "boto3", marker = "extra == 'aws'", specifier = ">=1.40.38" },
     { name = "chromadb", specifier = "~=1.1.0" },
     { name = "click", specifier = ">=8.1.7" },
-    { name = "crewai-tools", marker = "extra == 'tools'", specifier = ">=0.74.0" },
+    { name = "crewai-tools", marker = "extra == 'tools'", specifier = ">=0.76.0" },
     { name = "docling", marker = "extra == 'docling'", specifier = ">=2.12.0" },
     { name = "ibm-watsonx-ai", marker = "extra == 'watson'", specifier = ">=1.3.39" },
     { name = "instructor", specifier = ">=1.3.3" },
@@ -800,7 +800,7 @@ dev = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "crewai-tools"
-version = "0.74.0"
+version = "0.76.0"
 source = { registry = "https://pypi.org/simple" }
 dependencies = [
     { name = "beautifulsoup4" },
@@ -815,9 +815,9 @@ dependencies = [
     { name = "tiktoken" },
     { name = "youtube-transcript-api" },
 ]
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 [[package]]