diff --git a/dependencies.yaml b/dependencies.yaml
index 333c499c..86ef4c25 100644
--- a/dependencies.yaml
+++ b/dependencies.yaml
@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ dependencies:
           - pytest-rerunfailures
       - output_types: [conda]
         packages:
-          - &cudf_unsuffixed cudf==.*,>=0.0.0a0
+          - &cudf_unsuffixed cudf==24.12.*,>=0.0.0a0
     specific:
       - output_types: [requirements, pyproject]
         matrices:
@@ -233,12 +233,12 @@ dependencies:
               cuda: "12.*"
               cuda_suffixed: "true"
             packages:
-              - cudf-cu12==.*,>=0.0.0a0
+              - cudf-cu12==24.12.*,>=0.0.0a0
           - matrix:
               cuda: "11.*"
               cuda_suffixed: "true"
             packages:
-              - cudf-cu11==.*,>=0.0.0a0
+              - cudf-cu11==24.12.*,>=0.0.0a0
           - matrix:
             packages:
               - *cudf_unsuffixed
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index c854e42b..654091b6 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ classifiers = [
 [project.optional-dependencies]
 test = [
     "cloudpickle",
-    "cudf==.*,>=0.0.0a0",
+    "cudf==24.12.*,>=0.0.0a0",
     "cupy-cuda12x>=12.0.0",
     "dask",
     "distributed",