diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index f65f245..2af1246 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ dev-pylint = [
 ]
 dev-pytest = [
   "pytest == 9.0.2",
-  "pylint == 3.3.8", # We need this to check for the examples
+  "pylint == 4.0.4", # We need this to check for the examples
   "frequenz-repo-config[extra-lint-examples] == 0.14.0",
 ]
 dev = [