diff --git a/.github/workflows/production_run_complete_llm.yml b/.github/workflows/production_run_complete_llm.yml
index 9d9ff319..883f60da 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/production_run_complete_llm.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/production_run_complete_llm.yml
@@ -47,7 +47,6 @@ jobs:
         working-directory: ./llm-complete-guide
         run: |
           zenml init
-          zenml connect --url $ZENML_STORE_URL --api-key $ZENML_STORE_API_KEY
 
       - name: Set stack (Production)
         working-directory: ./llm-complete-guide
diff --git a/.github/workflows/staging_run_complete_llm.yml b/.github/workflows/staging_run_complete_llm.yml
index b43911a1..01a6cd8a 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/staging_run_complete_llm.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/staging_run_complete_llm.yml
@@ -43,7 +43,6 @@ jobs:
         working-directory: ./llm-complete-guide
         run: |
           zenml init
-          zenml connect --url $ZENML_STORE_URL --api-key $ZENML_STORE_API_KEY
 
       - name: Set stack (Staging)
         working-directory: ./llm-complete-guide
diff --git a/llm-complete-guide/ZENML_VERSION.txt b/llm-complete-guide/ZENML_VERSION.txt
index 8fc8841a..e6c73154 100644
--- a/llm-complete-guide/ZENML_VERSION.txt
+++ b/llm-complete-guide/ZENML_VERSION.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-v0.70.0
\ No newline at end of file
+0.71.0
diff --git a/llm-complete-guide/requirements-argilla.txt b/llm-complete-guide/requirements-argilla.txt
index d0b72109..ad979d10 100644
--- a/llm-complete-guide/requirements-argilla.txt
+++ b/llm-complete-guide/requirements-argilla.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-zenml[server]>=0.68.1
+zenml[server]
 sentence-transformers>=3,<=3.0.1
 transformers<=4.44.0
 litellm
diff --git a/llm-complete-guide/requirements.txt b/llm-complete-guide/requirements.txt
index 4a761fbd..dc578d9d 100644
--- a/llm-complete-guide/requirements.txt
+++ b/llm-complete-guide/requirements.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-zenml[server]==0.68.1
+zenml[server]
 ratelimit
 pgvector
 psycopg2-binary