diff --git a/packaging/release/requirements.txt b/packaging/release/requirements.txt
index 09dcf5242f..39585925a4 100644
--- a/packaging/release/requirements.txt
+++ b/packaging/release/requirements.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-PyGithub==2.6.1
+PyGithub==2.8.1
 boto3==1.37.23
 docker==7.1.0
 requests==2.32.3