diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 5fa0f3b32..41d6f8f59 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ dev-pylint = [
   "frequenz-sdk[dev-mkdocs,dev-noxfile,dev-pytest]",
 ]
 dev-pytest = [
-  "pytest == 7.4.0",
+  "pytest == 7.4.4",
   "pytest-mock == 3.11.1",
   "pytest-asyncio == 0.21.1",
   "time-machine == 2.12.0",