diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index d45c6dc7..395a691d 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Jinja2~=3.1.5
 Pygments~=2.18.0
 Falcon~=4.0.2
-pytest==7.2.1
+pytest==9.0.3
 
 # NOTE binary wheels of berkeleydb are not distributed - on Debian this may
 # require installing build-essentials, python3-dev and libdb-dev