diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 81dd1c40ec..8e95bf579d 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -55,7 +55,6 @@ module = [
     "ahocorasick.*",
     "bitfield.*",
     "bmemcached.*",
-    "cairosvg.*", # https://github.com/Kozea/CairoSVG/issues/373
     "circuitbreaker.*",
     "defusedxml.*", # https://github.com/tiran/defusedxml/issues/46
     "digitalocean.*",
diff --git a/requirements/dev.in b/requirements/dev.in
index 45b0d7d430..f4d2a0ddae 100644
--- a/requirements/dev.in
+++ b/requirements/dev.in
@@ -55,9 +55,6 @@ https://github.com/zulip/zulint/archive/417b4e4971fdd5ca8e84847f1391b657b188631a
 
 -r mypy.in
 
-# Needed for using integration logo svg files as bot avatars
-cairosvg
-
 # Needed for tools/check-thirdparty
 python-debian
 
diff --git a/requirements/dev.txt b/requirements/dev.txt
index a182498798..0bc5e6c6c8 100644
--- a/requirements/dev.txt
+++ b/requirements/dev.txt
@@ -256,14 +256,6 @@ cachetools==5.3.3 \
     --hash=sha256:0abad1021d3f8325b2fc1d2e9c8b9c9d57b04c3932657a72465447332c24d945 \
     --hash=sha256:ba29e2dfa0b8b556606f097407ed1aa62080ee108ab0dc5ec9d6a723a007d105
     # via google-auth
-cairocffi==1.7.0 \
-    --hash=sha256:1f29a8d41dbda4090c0aa33bcdea64f3b493e95f74a43ea107c4a8a7b7f632ef \
-    --hash=sha256:7761863603894305f3160eca68452f373433ca8745ab7dd445bd2c6ce50dcab7
-    # via cairosvg
-cairosvg==2.7.1 \
-    --hash=sha256:432531d72347291b9a9ebfb6777026b607563fd8719c46ee742db0aef7271ba0 \
-    --hash=sha256:8a5222d4e6c3f86f1f7046b63246877a63b49923a1cd202184c3a634ef546b3b
-    # via -r requirements/dev.in
 certifi==2024.2.2 \
     --hash=sha256:0569859f95fc761b18b45ef421b1290a0f65f147e92a1e5eb3e635f9a5e4e66f \
     --hash=sha256:dc383c07b76109f368f6106eee2b593b04a011ea4d55f652c6ca24a754d1cdd1
@@ -325,7 +317,6 @@ cffi==1.16.0 \
     --hash=sha256:fcc8eb6d5902bb1cf6dc4f187ee3ea80a1eba0a89aba40a5cb20a5087d961357
     # via
     #   argon2-cffi-bindings
-    #   cairocffi
     #   cryptography
     #   pyvips
 chardet==5.2.0 \
@@ -585,10 +576,6 @@ cssselect==1.2.0 \
     #   parsel
     #   scrapy
     #   talon-core
-cssselect2==0.7.0 \
-    --hash=sha256:1ccd984dab89fc68955043aca4e1b03e0cf29cad9880f6e28e3ba7a74b14aa5a \
-    --hash=sha256:fd23a65bfd444595913f02fc71f6b286c29261e354c41d722ca7a261a49b5969
-    # via cairosvg
 dataclasses-json==0.6.6 \
     --hash=sha256:0c09827d26fffda27f1be2fed7a7a01a29c5ddcd2eb6393ad5ebf9d77e9deae8 \
     --hash=sha256:e54c5c87497741ad454070ba0ed411523d46beb5da102e221efb873801b0ba85
@@ -604,7 +591,6 @@ defusedxml==0.7.1 \
     --hash=sha256:a352e7e428770286cc899e2542b6cdaedb2b4953ff269a210103ec58f6198a61
     # via
     #   -r requirements/common.in
-    #   cairosvg
     #   python3-openid
     #   scrapy
     #   semgrep
@@ -2076,9 +2062,7 @@ pillow==10.3.0 \
     --hash=sha256:f0d0591a0aeaefdaf9a5e545e7485f89910c977087e7de2b6c388aec32011e9f \
     --hash=sha256:fdcbb4068117dfd9ce0138d068ac512843c52295ed996ae6dd1faf537b6dbc27 \
     --hash=sha256:ff61bfd9253c3915e6d41c651d5f962da23eda633cf02262990094a18a55371a
-    # via
-    #   -r requirements/common.in
-    #   cairosvg
+    # via -r requirements/common.in
 pip-tools==6.2.0 \
     --hash=sha256:77727ef7457d1865e61fe34c2b1439f9b971b570cc232616a22ce82ab89d357d \
     --hash=sha256:9ed38c73da4993e531694ea151f77048b4dbf2ba7b94c4a569daa39568cc6564
@@ -3131,12 +3115,6 @@ time-machine==2.14.1 \
     --hash=sha256:fd8645b820f7895fdafbc4412d1ce376956e36ad4fd05a43269aa06c3132afc3 \
     --hash=sha256:fe508a6c43fb72fa4f66b50b14684cf58d3db95fed617177ec197a7a90427bae
     # via -r requirements/dev.in
-tinycss2==1.3.0 \
-    --hash=sha256:152f9acabd296a8375fbca5b84c961ff95971fcfc32e79550c8df8e29118c54d \
-    --hash=sha256:54a8dbdffb334d536851be0226030e9505965bb2f30f21a4a82c55fb2a80fae7
-    # via
-    #   cairosvg
-    #   cssselect2
 tldextract==5.1.2 \
     --hash=sha256:4dfc4c277b6b97fa053899fcdb892d2dc27295851ab5fac4e07797b6a21b2e46 \
     --hash=sha256:c9e17f756f05afb5abac04fe8f766e7e70f9fe387adb1859f0f52408ee060200
@@ -3379,10 +3357,7 @@ wcwidth==0.2.13 \
 webencodings==0.5.1 \
     --hash=sha256:a0af1213f3c2226497a97e2b3aa01a7e4bee4f403f95be16fc9acd2947514a78 \
     --hash=sha256:b36a1c245f2d304965eb4e0a82848379241dc04b865afcc4aab16748587e1923
-    # via
-    #   cssselect2
-    #   html5lib
-    #   tinycss2
+    # via html5lib
 werkzeug==3.0.3 \
     --hash=sha256:097e5bfda9f0aba8da6b8545146def481d06aa7d3266e7448e2cccf67dd8bd18 \
     --hash=sha256:fc9645dc43e03e4d630d23143a04a7f947a9a3b5727cd535fdfe155a17cc48c8
diff --git a/version.py b/version.py
index 3f80e307cb..cb7379b1fb 100644
--- a/version.py
+++ b/version.py
@@ -48,4 +48,4 @@ API_FEATURE_LEVEL = 266
 #   historical commits sharing the same major version, in which case a
 #   minor version bump suffices.
 
-PROVISION_VERSION = (281, 2)  # bumped 2024-06-18 for adding libvips
+PROVISION_VERSION = (282, 0)  # bumped 2024-06-18 for removing cairosvg