diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 2c195b6183..d599c8aa22 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ sdp = [
 test = [
     "ci-watson>=0.10",
     "pysiaf>=0.13.0",
-    "pytest>=6.0.0",
+    "pytest>=9.0.0",
     "pytest-cov>=2.9.0",
     "pytest-doctestplus>=0.10.0",
     "requests_mock>=1.0",
@@ -203,8 +203,8 @@ all_files = "1"
 upload-dir = "docs/_build/html"
 show-response = 1
 
-[tool.pytest.ini_options]
-minversion = "6.0"
+[tool.pytest]
+minversion = "9.0"
 norecursedirs = [
     "docs/_build",
     "docs/exts",