diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 3b35a549321..a7424832bfa 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -168,6 +168,8 @@
 
 * `transform/normalize_total` component: pass the `target_sum` argument to `sc.pp.normalize_total()` (PR #823).
 
+* `from_cellranger_multi_to_h5mu`: fix missing `pytest` dependency (PR #897).
+
 ## DOCUMENTATION
 
 * Update authorship of components (PR #835).
diff --git a/src/convert/from_cellranger_multi_to_h5mu/config.vsh.yaml b/src/convert/from_cellranger_multi_to_h5mu/config.vsh.yaml
index c64c7f84ae2..b998b26cff3 100644
--- a/src/convert/from_cellranger_multi_to_h5mu/config.vsh.yaml
+++ b/src/convert/from_cellranger_multi_to_h5mu/config.vsh.yaml
@@ -71,8 +71,9 @@ engines:
       - type: python
         __merge__: [/src/base/requirements/anndata_mudata.yaml, /src/base/requirements/scanpy.yaml, .]
         packages:
-          - scirpy~=0.12.0
-          - pandas~=2.2.2
+          - scirpy~=0.19.0
+          - pytest # Scirpy has patsy as a dependency and it requires pytest
+          - pandas~=2.2.3
     test_setup:
       - type: python
         __merge__: [ /src/base/requirements/viashpy.yaml, .]