diff --git a/poetry.lock b/poetry.lock
index 7fba3eac..eebf6246 100644
--- a/poetry.lock
+++ b/poetry.lock
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# This file is automatically @generated by Poetry 1.8.2 and should not be changed by hand.
+# This file is automatically @generated by Poetry 1.8.5 and should not be changed by hand.
 
 [[package]]
 name = "absl-py"
@@ -189,13 +189,13 @@ files = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "aleph-alpha-client"
-version = "7.6.0"
+version = "8.1.0"
 description = "python client to interact with Aleph Alpha api endpoints"
 optional = false
-python-versions = "<3.13,>=3.8"
+python-versions = "<3.13,>=3.9"
 files = [
-    {file = "aleph_alpha_client-7.6.0-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:2f142a44b39285ff7b4907de0c331c875026ff34ccc88083e0901f92fad82ab2"},
-    {file = "aleph_alpha_client-7.6.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:acf4bb2cd21ffcb6d7896a7c29dbf1f97713bfca6c5f99e1febfbf02d453eedd"},
+    {file = "aleph_alpha_client-8.1.0-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:8ddae7777b9b3133e95bf4c048bb0bfdd3cb23795a4b788348b05dacd9a3ff4c"},
+    {file = "aleph_alpha_client-8.1.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:23be075560c26b9c1170d7324307e906a6086ac3579270d196355f7892101dc4"},
 ]
 
 [package.dependencies]
@@ -212,7 +212,7 @@ typing-extensions = ">=4.5.0"
 urllib3 = ">=1.26"
 
 [package.extras]
-dev = ["black", "ipykernel", "mypy", "nbconvert", "pytest", "pytest-aiohttp", "pytest-cov", "pytest-dotenv", "pytest-httpserver", "types-Pillow", "types-tqdm"]
+dev = ["ipykernel", "mypy", "nbconvert", "pre-commit", "pytest", "pytest-aiohttp", "pytest-cov", "pytest-dotenv", "pytest-httpserver", "ruff", "types-Pillow", "types-tqdm"]
 docs = ["sphinx", "sphinx_rtd_theme"]
 test = ["pytest", "pytest-aiohttp", "pytest-cov", "pytest-dotenv", "pytest-httpserver"]
 types = ["mypy", "types-Pillow", "types-requests", "types-tqdm"]