diff --git a/changes/3029.misc.rst b/changes/3029.misc.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a698af68bb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changes/3029.misc.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Updated coverage from 7.6.8 to 7.6.9 in /testbed.
diff --git a/testbed/pyproject.toml b/testbed/pyproject.toml
index 223199a308..70c47f0d6c 100644
--- a/testbed/pyproject.toml
+++ b/testbed/pyproject.toml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ version = "0.0.1"
 
 [project.optional-dependencies]
 test = [
-    "coverage==7.6.8",
+    "coverage==7.6.9",
     "coverage-conditional-plugin == 0.9.0",
     # fonttools is only needed by Android, but we need to use
     # sys.platform == 'linux' as there's no dependency identifier