diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index b88ca40..4d854e7 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ dev-pylint = [
 ]
 dev-pytest = [
   "pytest == 9.0.3",
-  "pylint == 3.3.8", # We need this to check for the examples
+  "pylint == 4.0.5", # We need this to check for the examples
   "frequenz-repo-config[extra-lint-examples] == 0.17.0",
   "pytest-mock == 3.15.1",
   "pytest-asyncio == 1.3.0",