diff --git a/requirements/dev.txt b/requirements/dev.txt
index 3837c0527..a3621d685 100644
--- a/requirements/dev.txt
+++ b/requirements/dev.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # development dependencies (see docs.txt for documentation building dependencies)
 # linting and static type-checking
-flake8>=3.7.7, <7.0.0
+flake8>=7.1.0, <8.0.0
 mypy>=1.0, <2.0
 types-requests>=2.25, <3.0
 types-toml>=0.10, <1.0