diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index 956e7f3b0..d36ee3781 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@
 /.gitignore linguist-generated
 /.mergify.yml linguist-generated
 /.npmignore linguist-generated
-/.npmrc linguist-generated
 /.projen/** linguist-generated
 /.projen/deps.json linguist-generated
 /.projen/files.json linguist-generated
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index fef00eb0c..463f1d918 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -38,7 +38,6 @@ jspm_packages/
 !/.github/workflows/release.yml
 !/.github/workflows/upgrade-main.yml
 !/.github/pull_request_template.md
-!/.npmrc
 !/test/
 !/tsconfig.dev.json
 !/src/
diff --git a/.projen/files.json b/.projen/files.json
index 0f11a897b..d44d81817 100644
--- a/.projen/files.json
+++ b/.projen/files.json
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@
     ".github/workflows/upgrade-main.yml",
     ".gitignore",
     ".mergify.yml",
-    ".npmrc",
     ".projen/deps.json",
     ".projen/files.json",
     ".projen/tasks.json",
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 9bfa23e46..94388323e 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@
     "jsii-rosetta": "~5.1.2",
     "node-fetch": "cjs",
     "npm-check-updates": "^16",
-    "projen": "^0.75.4",
+    "projen": "^0.76.21",
     "standard-version": "^9",
     "typescript": "^4.9.5"
   },
diff --git a/yarn.lock b/yarn.lock
index dd17ef5ad..638bf0b91 100644
--- a/yarn.lock
+++ b/yarn.lock
@@ -4465,15 +4465,16 @@ progress@^2.0.3:
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/progress/-/progress-2.0.3.tgz#7e8cf8d8f5b8f239c1bc68beb4eb78567d572ef8"
   integrity sha512-7PiHtLll5LdnKIMw100I+8xJXR5gW2QwWYkT6iJva0bXitZKa/XMrSbdmg3r2Xnaidz9Qumd0VPaMrZlF9V9sA==
 
-projen@^0.75.4:
-  version "0.75.4"
-  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/projen/-/projen-0.75.4.tgz#0ae0fdc929142f308f17d680b4ad3d7dd5d01e20"
-  integrity sha512-1B5U77bn4ydO6mmGvM+ZsC6goyY2rYPFbOX9xP0HOnh5/634Tu/YRFESvmvM4rXTGBTtQL701tx4eRo2LLWOUA==
+projen@^0.76.21:
+  version "0.76.21"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/projen/-/projen-0.76.21.tgz#90c47a7d161db9a4ba7e9183b409d616ce24b05f"
+  integrity sha512-FAQ2Y3A3Sn5VJ0Rns9vWiA+c/V32VKJYsnm9lMrumuLTOnWy4rkOj/OQdPXHgMDd94EJ2dEyCYgvqFfBJTjjdQ==
   dependencies:
     "@iarna/toml" "^2.2.5"
     case "^1.6.3"
     chalk "^4.1.2"
     comment-json "4.2.2"
+    constructs "^10.0.0"
     conventional-changelog-config-spec "^2.1.0"
     fast-json-patch "^3.1.1"
     glob "^8"