diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 50ea38c..39ef821 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ importlib-metadata = "<7" # Workaround for https://github.com/PyCQA/bandit/issue
 isort = "^5.7.0" 
 lxml = "^5.2.2" 
 mypy = "^1.1"
-pytest = "^7.0.0" 
+pytest = ">=7,<9" 
 pytest-cov = "^4.0.0" 
 tox = "^3.23.0"
 ruff = ">=0.12,<0.16"