diff --git a/.github/workflows/tests.yml b/.github/workflows/tests.yml
index 5e8d1f830..0b96d31ea 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/tests.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/tests.yml
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ on:
       # This is spelt like this to do not ignore the docs/examples/ folder.
       - '**'
       - '!docs/**'
-      - 'docs/examples/**'
       - '!CHANGELOG.rst'
       - '!LICENSE'
       - '!LICENSES/**'
@@ -103,10 +102,10 @@ jobs:
             meson: '~=1.8.0'
           # Test with Meson master branch.
           - os: ubuntu-latest
-            python: '3.12'
+            python: '3.14'
             meson: '@git+https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson.git'
           - os: windows-latest
-            python: '3.12'
+            python: '3.14'
             meson: '@git+https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson.git'
 
     steps:
diff --git a/tests/test_sdist.py b/tests/test_sdist.py
index 2c5198951..70a3e357e 100644
--- a/tests/test_sdist.py
+++ b/tests/test_sdist.py
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 
 import mesonpy
 
-from .conftest import in_git_repo_context, metadata
+from .conftest import MESON_VERSION, in_git_repo_context, metadata
 
 
 def test_meson_build_metadata(sdist_library):
@@ -217,9 +217,11 @@ def test_reproducible(package_pure, tmp_path):
     assert sdist_path_a == sdist_path_b
     assert tmp_path.joinpath('a', sdist_path_a).read_bytes() == tmp_path.joinpath('b', sdist_path_b).read_bytes()
 
-# ``meson dist`` does not handle tarballs containing symbolic links to absolute
-# paths on Python 3.14, see https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/15142
-@pytest.mark.skipif(sys.version_info >= (3, 14), reason='incompatible Python version')
+
+# ``meson dist`` before Meson 1.9.2 does not handle tarballs
+# containing symbolic links to absolute paths on Python 3.14.
+# See https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/15142
+@pytest.mark.skipif(sys.version_info >= (3, 14) and MESON_VERSION < (1, 9, 2), reason='incompatible Python version')
 @pytest.mark.filterwarnings('ignore:symbolic link')
 def test_symlinks(tmp_path, sdist_symlinks):
     with tarfile.open(sdist_symlinks, 'r:gz') as sdist: