diff --git a/poetry.lock b/poetry.lock
index 536f728..3914b33 100644
--- a/poetry.lock
+++ b/poetry.lock
@@ -3102,26 +3102,27 @@ dev = ["build", "flake8", "mypy", "pytest", "twine"]
 
 [[package]]
 name = "pytest"
-version = "7.4.4"
+version = "9.0.3"
 description = "pytest: simple powerful testing with Python"
 optional = false
-python-versions = ">=3.7"
+python-versions = ">=3.10"
 groups = ["dev"]
 files = [
-    {file = "pytest-7.4.4-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:b090cdf5ed60bf4c45261be03239c2c1c22df034fbffe691abe93cd80cea01d8"},
-    {file = "pytest-7.4.4.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:2cf0005922c6ace4a3e2ec8b4080eb0d9753fdc93107415332f50ce9e7994280"},
+    {file = "pytest-9.0.3-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:2c5efc453d45394fdd706ade797c0a81091eccd1d6e4bccfcd476e2b8e0ab5d9"},
+    {file = "pytest-9.0.3.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:b86ada508af81d19edeb213c681b1d48246c1a91d304c6c81a427674c17eb91c"},
 ]
 
 [package.dependencies]
-colorama = {version = "*", markers = "sys_platform == \"win32\""}
-exceptiongroup = {version = ">=1.0.0rc8", markers = "python_version < \"3.11\""}
-iniconfig = "*"
-packaging = "*"
-pluggy = ">=0.12,<2.0"
-tomli = {version = ">=1.0.0", markers = "python_version < \"3.11\""}
+colorama = {version = ">=0.4", markers = "sys_platform == \"win32\""}
+exceptiongroup = {version = ">=1", markers = "python_version < \"3.11\""}
+iniconfig = ">=1.0.1"
+packaging = ">=22"
+pluggy = ">=1.5,<2"
+pygments = ">=2.7.2"
+tomli = {version = ">=1", markers = "python_version < \"3.11\""}
 
 [package.extras]
-testing = ["argcomplete", "attrs (>=19.2.0)", "hypothesis (>=3.56)", "mock", "nose", "pygments (>=2.7.2)", "requests", "setuptools", "xmlschema"]
+dev = ["argcomplete", "attrs (>=19.2)", "hypothesis (>=3.56)", "mock", "requests", "setuptools", "xmlschema"]
 
 [[package]]
 name = "pytest-cov"
@@ -4498,4 +4499,4 @@ wdl = ["miniwdl"]
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "2.1"
 python-versions = ">3.10.0,<4.0"
-content-hash = "6b3b281355b8a00376594623b94b037218d7813b1a5a7cdc3b3265e84efaf615"
+content-hash = "33db767c584aec0843f63fd40385da15cb3a22c7e7b32f494c5b7626e030ab87"
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 47dc9ec..8f0e487 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ nf-core = {version = "^3.3.2", optional=true}
 awscrt = "==0.30.0"
 
 [tool.poetry.group.dev.dependencies]
-pytest = "^7.1.3"
+pytest = ">=7.1.3,<10.0.0"
 pytest-cov = "*"
 flake8 = "*"
 pdoc = "15.0.0"