diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index c8d168734..e24845a44 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ flash-attn==2.5.8
 sentencepiece
 wandb
 einops
-xformers==0.0.26.post1
+xformers==0.0.27
 optimum==1.16.2
 hf_transfer
 colorama
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index c7b4e15de..58d279475 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -29,9 +29,10 @@ def parse_requirements():
                 _install_requires.append(line)
 
     try:
+        xformers_version = [req for req in _install_requires if "xformers" in req][0]
         if "Darwin" in platform.system():
             # don't install xformers on MacOS
-            _install_requires.pop(_install_requires.index("xformers==0.0.26.post1"))
+            _install_requires.pop(_install_requires.index(xformers_version))
         else:
             # detect the version of torch already installed
             # and set it so dependencies don't clobber the torch version
@@ -49,12 +50,14 @@ def parse_requirements():
                 raise ValueError("Invalid version format")
 
             if (major, minor) >= (2, 3):
-                pass
+                if patch == 0:
+                    _install_requires.pop(_install_requires.index(xformers_version))
+                    _install_requires.append("xformers>=0.0.26.post1")
             elif (major, minor) >= (2, 2):
-                _install_requires.pop(_install_requires.index("xformers==0.0.26.post1"))
+                _install_requires.pop(_install_requires.index(xformers_version))
                 _install_requires.append("xformers>=0.0.25.post1")
             else:
-                _install_requires.pop(_install_requires.index("xformers==0.0.26.post1"))
+                _install_requires.pop(_install_requires.index(xformers_version))
                 _install_requires.append("xformers>=0.0.23.post1")
 
     except PackageNotFoundError: