diff --git a/requirements-dev.txt b/requirements-dev.txt
index 7aeb07e2..7bc3b65f 100644
--- a/requirements-dev.txt
+++ b/requirements-dev.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 bandit[toml] >=1.0, <2.0
 black >=23.0, <24.0
 cffconvert >=2.0, <3.0
-flake8 >=7.0, <8.0
+flake8 >=7.3.0, <8.0
 flake8-bandit >=4.0, <5.0
 flake8-bugbear >=24.0, <25.0
 flake8-builtins >=2.0, <3.0