diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index d6d8bac..1a4b802 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ dev-pylint = [
 ]
 dev-pytest = [
   "pytest == 8.4.1",
-  "pylint == 3.3.8",       # We need this to check for the examples
+  "pylint == 4.0.3",       # We need this to check for the examples
   "frequenz-repo-config[extra-lint-examples] == 0.13.6",
   "pytest-mock == 3.14.0",
   "pytest-asyncio == 1.3.0",