diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index d29e6491d..e99a444c5 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ Deployed on October 14th, 2024
 * `Woltka v0.1.7, paired-end` superseded `Woltka v0.1.6` in `qp-woltka`; [more information](https://qiita.ucsd.edu/static/doc/html/processingdata/woltka_pairedend.html). Thank you to @qiyunzhu for the benchmarks!
 * Other general fixes, like [#3424](https://github.com/qiita-spots/qiita/pull/3424), [#3425](https://github.com/qiita-spots/qiita/pull/3425), [#3439](https://github.com/qiita-spots/qiita/pull/3439), [#3440](https://github.com/qiita-spots/qiita/pull/3440).
 * General SPP improvements, like: [NuQC modified to preserve metadata in fastq files](https://github.com/biocore/mg-scripts/pull/155), [use squeue instead of sacct](https://github.com/biocore/mg-scripts/pull/152), , [job aborts if Qiita study contains sample metadata columns reserved for prep-infos](https://github.com/biocore/mg-scripts/pull/151), [metapool generates OverrideCycles value](https://github.com/biocore/metagenomics_pooling_notebook/pull/225).
-
+* We updated the available parameters for `Filter features against reference [filter_features]`, `Non V4 16S sequence assessment [non_v4_16s]` and all the phylogenetic analytical commands so they can use `Greengenes2 2024.09`.
 
 
 Version 2024.07
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 230cec3a2..a480c0bd8 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@
       install_requires=['psycopg2', 'click', 'bcrypt', 'pandas<2.0',
                         'biom-format', 'tornado<6.0', 'toredis', 'redis',
                         'scp', 'pyparsing', 'h5py',  'natsort', 'nose', 'pep8',
-                        'networkx', 'humanize', 'wtforms<3.0.0', 'nltk<=3.8.1',
+                        'networkx', 'humanize', 'wtforms<3.0.0',
                         'openpyxl', 'sphinx-bootstrap-theme', 'Sphinx<3.0',
                         'gitpython', 'redbiom', 'pyzmq', 'sphinx_rtd_theme',
                         'paramiko', 'seaborn',  'matplotlib', 'scipy<=1.10.1',