diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index d8a75cbc3..42ef7bad7 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ tests = [
     "black>=24.2.0",
     "click==8.2.1",
     "inflect==7.5.0",
-    "pygithub==2.6.1",
+    "pygithub==2.8.1",
     "lxml==5.3.0",
     "numpy==2.2.6",
     "parse==1.20.2",