diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 686d06eed7..c033895c19 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -17,6 +17,9 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ### Fixed
 
+### Maintenance
+* Updated pybind11 version used by `dpctl` and examples [gh-2357](https://github.com/IntelPython/dpctl/pull/2357)
+
 ## [0.22.1] - Apr. 24, 2026
 
 This is a bug-fix release which fixes a memory leak in `dpctl.RawKernelArg`.
diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 0f84348251..034d5236ea 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -125,8 +125,8 @@ include(FetchContent)
 
 FetchContent_Declare(
     pybind11
-    URL https://github.com/pybind/pybind11/archive/refs/tags/v3.0.1.tar.gz
-    URL_HASH SHA256=741633da746b7c738bb71f1854f957b9da660bcd2dce68d71949037f0969d0ca
+    URL https://github.com/pybind/pybind11/archive/refs/tags/v3.0.4.tar.gz
+    URL_HASH SHA256=74b6a2c2b4573a400cafb6ecbf60c98df300cd3d0041296b913d02b2cbbb2676
     FIND_PACKAGE_ARGS NAMES pybind11
 )
 FetchContent_MakeAvailable(pybind11)
diff --git a/examples/pybind11/external_usm_allocation/CMakeLists.txt b/examples/pybind11/external_usm_allocation/CMakeLists.txt
index b2462852cf..73dc8d4f15 100644
--- a/examples/pybind11/external_usm_allocation/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/examples/pybind11/external_usm_allocation/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -14,8 +14,8 @@ set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD_REQUIRED True)
 include(FetchContent)
 FetchContent_Declare(
   pybind11
-  URL https://github.com/pybind/pybind11/archive/refs/tags/v2.13.6.tar.gz
-  URL_HASH SHA256=e08cb87f4773da97fa7b5f035de8763abc656d87d5773e62f6da0587d1f0ec20
+  URL https://github.com/pybind/pybind11/archive/refs/tags/v3.0.4.tar.gz
+  URL_HASH SHA256=74b6a2c2b4573a400cafb6ecbf60c98df300cd3d0041296b913d02b2cbbb2676
   FIND_PACKAGE_ARGS NAMES pybind11
 )
 FetchContent_MakeAvailable(pybind11)
diff --git a/examples/pybind11/onemkl_gemv/CMakeLists.txt b/examples/pybind11/onemkl_gemv/CMakeLists.txt
index 08dda0b288..a42d131848 100644
--- a/examples/pybind11/onemkl_gemv/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/examples/pybind11/onemkl_gemv/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -18,8 +18,8 @@ include(GNUInstallDirs)
 include(FetchContent)
 FetchContent_Declare(
   pybind11
-  URL https://github.com/pybind/pybind11/archive/refs/tags/v2.13.6.tar.gz
-  URL_HASH SHA256=e08cb87f4773da97fa7b5f035de8763abc656d87d5773e62f6da0587d1f0ec20
+  URL https://github.com/pybind/pybind11/archive/refs/tags/v3.0.4.tar.gz
+  URL_HASH SHA256=74b6a2c2b4573a400cafb6ecbf60c98df300cd3d0041296b913d02b2cbbb2676
   FIND_PACKAGE_ARGS NAMES pybind11
 )
 FetchContent_MakeAvailable(pybind11)
diff --git a/examples/pybind11/use_dpctl_sycl_kernel/CMakeLists.txt b/examples/pybind11/use_dpctl_sycl_kernel/CMakeLists.txt
index 5d8129581e..4287f0a2c8 100644
--- a/examples/pybind11/use_dpctl_sycl_kernel/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/examples/pybind11/use_dpctl_sycl_kernel/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -15,8 +15,8 @@ set(CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE Debug)
 include(FetchContent)
 FetchContent_Declare(
   pybind11
-  URL https://github.com/pybind/pybind11/archive/refs/tags/v2.13.6.tar.gz
-  URL_HASH SHA256=e08cb87f4773da97fa7b5f035de8763abc656d87d5773e62f6da0587d1f0ec20
+  URL https://github.com/pybind/pybind11/archive/refs/tags/v3.0.4.tar.gz
+  URL_HASH SHA256=74b6a2c2b4573a400cafb6ecbf60c98df300cd3d0041296b913d02b2cbbb2676
   FIND_PACKAGE_ARGS NAMES pybind11
 )
 FetchContent_MakeAvailable(pybind11)
diff --git a/examples/pybind11/use_dpctl_sycl_queue/CMakeLists.txt b/examples/pybind11/use_dpctl_sycl_queue/CMakeLists.txt
index 1534efd13e..64ad40edd0 100644
--- a/examples/pybind11/use_dpctl_sycl_queue/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/examples/pybind11/use_dpctl_sycl_queue/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -14,8 +14,8 @@ set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD_REQUIRED True)
 include(FetchContent)
 FetchContent_Declare(
   pybind11
-  URL https://github.com/pybind/pybind11/archive/refs/tags/v2.13.6.tar.gz
-  URL_HASH SHA256=e08cb87f4773da97fa7b5f035de8763abc656d87d5773e62f6da0587d1f0ec20
+  URL https://github.com/pybind/pybind11/archive/refs/tags/v3.0.4.tar.gz
+  URL_HASH SHA256=74b6a2c2b4573a400cafb6ecbf60c98df300cd3d0041296b913d02b2cbbb2676
   FIND_PACKAGE_ARGS NAMES pybind11
 )
 FetchContent_MakeAvailable(pybind11)