diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index d4a60da17..fc8147d22 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
     allows for configurable image tiling for x/y axis separately  
     enable in *scripts -> asymmetric tiling*  
     *note*: traditional symmetric tiling is achieved by setting circular mode for both x and y  
+  - update openvino to `2025.0.0`  
 - **UI**:  
   - force browser cache-invalidate on page load  
   - use correct timezone for log display  
diff --git a/installer.py b/installer.py
index 6a08d1b82..911d2bdd6 100644
--- a/installer.py
+++ b/installer.py
@@ -719,23 +719,22 @@ def install_ipex(torch_command):
     else:
         torch_command = os.environ.get('TORCH_COMMAND', 'torch==2.6.0+xpu torchvision==0.21.0+xpu --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/xpu')
 
-    install(os.environ.get('OPENVINO_COMMAND', 'openvino==2024.6.0'), 'openvino', ignore=True)
-    install('nncf==2.7.0', ignore=True, no_deps=True) # requires older pandas
     ts('ipex', t_start)
     return torch_command
 
 
 def install_openvino(torch_command):
     t_start = time.time()
-    check_python(supported_minors=[9, 10, 11, 12], reason='OpenVINO backend requires a Python version between 3.9 and 3.12')
+    # Python 3.12: RuntimeError: Dynamo is not supported on Python 3.12+
+    check_python(supported_minors=[9, 10, 11], reason='OpenVINO backend requires a Python version from 3.9, 3.10 or 3.11')
     log.info('OpenVINO: selected')
     if sys.platform == 'darwin':
         torch_command = os.environ.get('TORCH_COMMAND', 'torch==2.3.1 torchvision==0.18.1')
     else:
         torch_command = os.environ.get('TORCH_COMMAND', 'torch==2.3.1+cpu torchvision==0.18.1+cpu --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu')
 
-    install(os.environ.get('OPENVINO_COMMAND', 'openvino==2024.6.0'), 'openvino')
-    install('nncf==2.14.1', 'nncf')
+    install(os.environ.get('OPENVINO_COMMAND', 'openvino==2025.0.0'), 'openvino')
+    install(os.environ.get('NNCF_COMMAND', 'nncf==2.15.0'), 'nncf')
     os.environ.setdefault('PYTORCH_TRACING_MODE', 'TORCHFX')
     if os.environ.get("NEOReadDebugKeys", None) is None:
         os.environ.setdefault('NEOReadDebugKeys', '1')