diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index f187fe2c27..0595d895d8 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ mypy_, pyright_ / pylance or pyre_ (typing checks), bandit_ (security oriented c
 isort_ (auto-formatting), autoflake_ (automated removal of unused imports or variables), pyupgrade_
 (automated upgrade to newer python syntax) and pydocstringformatter_ (automated pep257).
 
-.. _ruff: https://github.com/charliermarsh/ruff
+.. _ruff: https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff
 .. _flake8: https://github.com/PyCQA/flake8
 .. _bandit: https://github.com/PyCQA/bandit
 .. _mypy: https://github.com/python/mypy
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 5ed22d62e1..f6e187b51a 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ dependencies    = [
     # Also upgrade requirements_test_min.txt.
     # Pinned to dev of second minor update to allow editable installs and fix primer issues,
     # see https://github.com/pylint-dev/astroid/issues/1341
-    "astroid>=3.2.4,<=3.3.0-dev0",
+    "astroid>=3.3.1,<=3.4.0-dev0",
     "isort>=4.2.5,<6,!=5.13.0",
     "mccabe>=0.6,<0.8",
     "tomli>=1.1.0;python_version<'3.11'",
diff --git a/requirements_test_min.txt b/requirements_test_min.txt
index aa25e51e2e..1434bc711b 100644
--- a/requirements_test_min.txt
+++ b/requirements_test_min.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 .[testutils,spelling]
 # astroid dependency is also defined in pyproject.toml
-astroid==3.2.4  # Pinned to a specific version for tests
+astroid==3.3.1  # Pinned to a specific version for tests
 typing-extensions~=4.12
 py~=1.11.0
 pytest~=8.3
diff --git a/tests/functional/i/inconsistent/inconsistent_quotes_fstring.py b/tests/functional/i/inconsistent/inconsistent_quotes_fstring.py
index dd6f9fbe12..e6e285341b 100644
--- a/tests/functional/i/inconsistent/inconsistent_quotes_fstring.py
+++ b/tests/functional/i/inconsistent/inconsistent_quotes_fstring.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 # pylint: disable=missing-module-docstring
 
 dictionary = {'0': 0}
-f_string = f'{dictionary["0"]}'
+F_STRING = f'{dictionary["0"]}'
diff --git a/tests/functional/i/inconsistent/inconsistent_quotes_fstring_py312.py b/tests/functional/i/inconsistent/inconsistent_quotes_fstring_py312.py
index 5e952af196..95a79a061c 100644
--- a/tests/functional/i/inconsistent/inconsistent_quotes_fstring_py312.py
+++ b/tests/functional/i/inconsistent/inconsistent_quotes_fstring_py312.py
@@ -2,4 +2,4 @@
 
 dictionary = {'0': 0}
 # quotes are inconsistent when targetting Python 3.12 (use single quotes)
-f_string = f'{dictionary["0"]}'  # [inconsistent-quotes]
+F_STRING = f'{dictionary["0"]}'  # [inconsistent-quotes]
diff --git a/tests/functional/i/inconsistent/inconsistent_quotes_fstring_py312_311.py b/tests/functional/i/inconsistent/inconsistent_quotes_fstring_py312_311.py
index 5b53a19bb5..2c49ffc726 100644
--- a/tests/functional/i/inconsistent/inconsistent_quotes_fstring_py312_311.py
+++ b/tests/functional/i/inconsistent/inconsistent_quotes_fstring_py312_311.py
@@ -2,4 +2,4 @@
 
 dictionary = {'0': 0}
 # quotes are consistent when targetting 3.11 and earlier (cannot use single quotes here)
-f_string = f'{dictionary["0"]}'
+F_STRING = f'{dictionary["0"]}'