diff --git a/mypy-requirements.txt b/mypy-requirements.txt
index 972727f4f..152dfc2f9 100644
--- a/mypy-requirements.txt
+++ b/mypy-requirements.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-mypy==1.6.1  # update pyproject.toml as well
+mypy[mypyc]==1.7.0  # update pyproject.toml as well
 black>=19.10b0
 types-pkg_resources
 types-requests
diff --git a/mypy-stubs/mistune/scanner.pyi b/mypy-stubs/mistune/scanner.pyi
index 73bc8bd39..7d62b8c92 100644
--- a/mypy-stubs/mistune/scanner.pyi
+++ b/mypy-stubs/mistune/scanner.pyi
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ from typing import (
 from mistune._types import State
 from typing_extensions import TypeAlias
 
-MethodFunc: TypeAlias = Callable[["ScannerParser", Match, State], Any]
+MethodFunc: TypeAlias = Callable[["ScannerParser", Match[str], State], Any]
 RuleMethod = Tuple[Pattern[str], MethodFunc]
 Lexicon = List[Tuple[Pattern[str], Tuple[str, RuleMethod]]]
 TextParser = Callable[[str, State], str]
diff --git a/mypy.ini b/mypy.ini
index 7cee2ab52..b13ad92b1 100644
--- a/mypy.ini
+++ b/mypy.ini
@@ -5,4 +5,3 @@ show_column_numbers = true
 show_error_codes = true
 pretty = true
 warn_unreachable = True
-new_type_inference = True
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index b1cfd54d2..990772015 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,14 +1,14 @@
 [build-system]
 requires = [
-    "setuptools>=45",
+    "setuptools>=50",  # 50 is to match mypyc's minimum
     "setuptools_scm[toml]>=8.0.4,<9",
-    'mypy==1.6.0',  # update mypy-requirements as well
-    "black>=19.10b0",
+    'mypy[mypyc]==1.7.0',  # update mypy-requirements as well
+    "black>=19.10b0,<23.12",
     "types-pkg_resources",
     "types-requests",
     "types-dataclasses",
     "importlib_resources>=1.4",  # equivalent to Python 3.9
-    "ruamel.yaml>= 0.12.4, != 0.16.6, < 0.18",
+    "ruamel.yaml>=0.17.6, < 0.19",
     "types-setuptools"
 ]
 build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 2171d404f..34b5eecd4 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ ruamel.yaml >= 0.17.6, < 0.19
 rdflib>= 4.2.2, < 8.0.0
 mistune>=2.0.3,<2.1
 CacheControl[filecache]>= 0.11.7, < 0.14
-black<23.12
+black>=19.10b0,<23.12
 mypy_extensions
 importlib_resources>=1.4
 # ^^ equivalent to Python 3.9