diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 96b4994..773bd51 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ classifiers = [
 dependencies = [
     "pyserini~=0.14.0",
     "dload~=0.6.0",
-    "pytest~=7.2",
+    "pytest~=8.1",
     "nltk~=3.7",
     "autopep8~=2.0",
     "pylint~=3.0",