diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 10feaa32a..ebf227cda 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ dev-pylint = [
   "frequenz-sdk[dev-mkdocs,dev-noxfile,dev-pytest]",
 ]
 dev-pytest = [
-  "pytest == 7.4.4",
+  "pytest == 8.0.0",
   "frequenz-repo-config[extra-lint-examples] == 0.7.4",
   "pytest-mock == 3.12.0",
   "pytest-asyncio == 0.23.3",