diff --git a/site-config/ebrainslab/packages.yaml b/site-config/ebrainslab/packages.yaml
index 8098616ee0c202557df247fccebb7b9ccbb9d3f7..3759479f0c739a72bd8959015f7853076f9bad2f 100644
--- a/site-config/ebrainslab/packages.yaml
+++ b/site-config/ebrainslab/packages.yaml
@@ -10,8 +10,6 @@ packages:
         # EM: +X fixes build for collab
         require: "@4.3.0+X"
     py-torch:
-        # ECM: keep at latest w.r.t. tracked upstream spack
-        version: [1.11.0]
         # ECM: No cuda nor rocm in collab VMs.
         #      I did not try to minimize the specification any further.
         variants: [~cuda~rocm~valgrind~mkldnn~mpi~gloo+tensorpipe~onnx_ml]