diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index d377572e..2650c8eb 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ lint = [
     "flake8-pyproject",
     "flake8-docstrings",
     "mypy~=1.3",
-    "pytest~=7.3",  # needed for linting tests
+    "pytest>=7.3,<9.0",  # needed for linting tests
     "types-Jinja2~=2.11",
     "types-jsonschema~=4.17",
     "types-protobuf~=4.24.0",
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ lint = [
     "types-requests"
 ]
 test = [
-    "pytest~=7.3",
+    "pytest>=7.3,<9.0",
     "pytest-xdist~=3.2",
     "hypothesis~=6.87"
 ]