diff --git a/.github/workflows/tox.yml b/.github/workflows/tox.yml
index e46fea8..0584248 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/tox.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/tox.yml
@@ -67,7 +67,11 @@ jobs:
       - name: Set up Python
         uses: actions/setup-python@v5
         with:
-          python-version: ${{ matrix.entry.python }}
+          # tox-ansible requires python 3.10 but it can be used to test with
+          # older versions of python.
+          python-version: |
+            ${{ matrix.entry.python }}
+            3.10
 
       - name: Install tox-ansible, includes tox
         run: python3 -m pip install .
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 55c312f..e564165 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ allow-init-docstring = true
 arg-type-hints-in-docstring = false
 baseline = ".config/pydoclint-baseline.txt"
 check-return-types = false
-exclude = '\.eggs|\.git|\.tox|build|out|venv'
+exclude = '\.cache|\.eggs|\.git|\.mypy_cache|\.tox|build|dist|out|venv'
 should-document-private-class-attributes = true
 show-filenames-in-every-violation-message = true
 skip-checking-short-docstrings = false
diff --git a/src/tox_ansible/plugin.py b/src/tox_ansible/plugin.py
index 515c1a4..89d78cf 100644
--- a/src/tox_ansible/plugin.py
+++ b/src/tox_ansible/plugin.py
@@ -49,10 +49,12 @@
 {integration, sanity, unit}-py3.13-{2.18, milestone, devel}
 """
 TOX_WORK_DIR = Path()
+# Without the minimal pytest-ansible condition, installation may fail in some
+# cases (pip, uv).
 OUR_DEPS = [
-    "pytest",
-    "pytest-xdist",
-    "pytest-ansible",
+    "pytest>=7.4.3",  # Oct 2023
+    "pytest-xdist>=3.4.0",  # Nov 2023
+    "pytest-ansible>=v4.1.1",  # latest version still supporting py39 (Oct 2023)
 ]
 
 T = TypeVar("T", bound=ConfigSet)