diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index d7a1a8bf..7661b8c7 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ dev = [
     "pytest-console-scripts~=1.4.0",
     "pytest-cov~=4.1.0",
     "pytest-recording~=0.13",
-    "pytest~=7.4",
+    "pytest>=7.4,<9.0",
     "recommonmark~=0.7.1",
     "requests-mock~=1.11.0",
     "ruff==0.1.15",