diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 7ee16cf..a3c6688 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ dev-pylint = [
 ]
 dev-pytest = [
   "pytest == 9.1.1",
-  "pylint == 4.0.8", # We need this to check for the examples
+  "pylint == 4.0.9", # We need this to check for the examples
   "frequenz-repo-config[extra-lint-examples] == 0.19.0",
   "pytest-mock == 3.15.1",
   "pytest-asyncio == 1.4.0",