diff --git a/requirements/dev.txt b/requirements/dev.txt
index 3837c0527..e48a1717f 100644
--- a/requirements/dev.txt
+++ b/requirements/dev.txt
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ mypy>=1.0, <2.0
 types-requests>=2.25, <3.0
 types-toml>=0.10, <1.0
 # testing
-pytest>=5.3.5, <8.0.0
+pytest>=8.2.2, <9.0.0
 pytest-cov>=2.6.1, <5.0.0
 pytest-xdist>=1.28.0, <4.0.0 # for distributed testing, currently unused (see setup.cfg)
 pytest_cases>=3.6.8, <4.0.0