diff --git a/requirements-dev.txt b/requirements-dev.txt
index 82ad1a0..eb8021f 100644
--- a/requirements-dev.txt
+++ b/requirements-dev.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # test dependencies
 coverage>=4.5.4
-pylint>=2.6.0,<3.0.0
+pylint>=4.0.0,<4.1.0
 pytest>=8.4.1,<8.5.0
 pytest-cov>=2.2.1,<3.0.0
 pytest-rerunfailures>=3.1