diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 2b74308081e..12347c14a5c 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -142,6 +142,7 @@ _deps = [
     "optimum-benchmark>=0.3.0",
     "optuna",
     "optax>=0.0.8,<=0.1.4",
+    "pandas<2.3.0",  # `datasets` requires `pandas` while `pandas==2.3.0` has issues with CircleCI on 2025/06/05
     "packaging>=20.0",
     "parameterized",
     "phonemizer",
@@ -367,7 +368,7 @@ extras["testing"] = (
 
 extras["deepspeed-testing"] = extras["deepspeed"] + extras["testing"] + extras["optuna"] + extras["sentencepiece"]
 extras["ruff"] = deps_list("ruff")
-extras["quality"] = deps_list("datasets", "isort", "ruff", "GitPython", "urllib3", "libcst", "rich")
+extras["quality"] = deps_list("datasets", "isort", "ruff", "GitPython", "urllib3", "libcst", "rich", "pandas")
 
 extras["all"] = (
     extras["tf"]
diff --git a/src/transformers/dependency_versions_table.py b/src/transformers/dependency_versions_table.py
index 5c0ae6b772f..f5282f9fd39 100644
--- a/src/transformers/dependency_versions_table.py
+++ b/src/transformers/dependency_versions_table.py
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ deps = {
     "optimum-benchmark": "optimum-benchmark>=0.3.0",
     "optuna": "optuna",
     "optax": "optax>=0.0.8,<=0.1.4",
+    "pandas": "pandas<2.3.0",
     "packaging": "packaging>=20.0",
     "parameterized": "parameterized",
     "phonemizer": "phonemizer",