diff --git a/requirements_test.txt b/requirements_test.txt
index 4c6b0250c..2bc635a44 100644
--- a/requirements_test.txt
+++ b/requirements_test.txt
@@ -2,5 +2,5 @@ gevent
 eventlet
 cryptography
 coverage
-pytest
+pytest>=7.2.0
 pytest-cov
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
deleted file mode 100644
index 07322e337..000000000
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-[tool:pytest]
-norecursedirs = examples lib local src
-testpaths = tests/
-addopts = --assert=plain --cov=gunicorn --cov-report=xml