diff --git a/requirements-devenv.txt b/requirements-devenv.txt
index 29d3f15ec9..5696567a14 100644
--- a/requirements-devenv.txt
+++ b/requirements-devenv.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 -r requirements-linting.txt
 -r requirements-testing.txt
 mockupdb # required by `pymongo` tests that are enabled by `pymongo` from linter requirements
-pytest<7.0.0 # https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/9621; see tox.ini
 pytest-asyncio
diff --git a/tests/conftest.py b/tests/conftest.py
index 64527c1e36..ade4a6c3a6 100644
--- a/tests/conftest.py
+++ b/tests/conftest.py
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 import os
 import socket
 import warnings
+from collections import OrderedDict
 from threading import Thread
 from contextlib import contextmanager
 from http.server import BaseHTTPRequestHandler, HTTPServer
@@ -645,3 +646,41 @@ def __eq__(self, other):
 
     def __ne__(self, other):
         return not self.__eq__(other)
+
+
+def pytest_collection_modifyitems(config, items):
+    """
+    Rearrange test items so that forked tests come before normal tests within their respective modules.
+    Swap the last forked test with the last normal test if necessary.
+
+    Workaround to unpin pytest. See:
+    https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/9621,
+    https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-forked/issues/67, and specifically:
+    https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-forked/issues/67#issuecomment-1964718720
+    """
+    module_states = OrderedDict()
+
+    for idx in range(len(items)):
+        item = items[idx]
+        current_module = item.module.__name__
+
+        if current_module not in module_states:
+            module_states[current_module] = {"forked": [], "normal": []}
+
+        if "forked" in item.keywords:
+            module_states[current_module]["forked"].append(idx)
+        else:
+            module_states[current_module]["normal"].append(idx)
+
+    # Swap the last forked test with the last normal test if necessary
+    for states in module_states.values():
+        if states["forked"] and states["normal"]:
+            last_forked_idx = states["forked"][-1]
+            last_normal_idx = states["normal"][-1]
+
+            if last_forked_idx > last_normal_idx:
+                # Swap the items
+                items[last_forked_idx], items[last_normal_idx] = (
+                    items[last_normal_idx],
+                    items[last_forked_idx],
+                )
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index 2f351d7e5a..7af1c7b83f 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -290,19 +290,10 @@ deps =
     # === Common ===
     py3.8-common: hypothesis
     {py3.6,py3.7,py3.8,py3.9,py3.10,py3.11,py3.12,py3.13}-common: pytest-asyncio
-    # See https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/9621
-    # and https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-forked/issues/67
-    # for justification of the upper bound on pytest
-    {py3.6,py3.7,py3.8,py3.9,py3.10,py3.11,py3.12}-common: pytest<7.0.0
-    py3.13-common: pytest
 
     # === Gevent ===
     {py3.6,py3.7,py3.8,py3.9,py3.10,py3.11}-gevent: gevent>=22.10.0, <22.11.0
     {py3.12}-gevent: gevent
-    # See https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/9621
-    # and https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-forked/issues/67
-    # for justification of the upper bound on pytest
-    {py3.6,py3.7,py3.8,py3.9,py3.10,py3.11,py3.12}-gevent: pytest<7.0.0
 
     # === Integrations ===
 
@@ -372,7 +363,6 @@ deps =
     celery-latest: Celery
 
     celery: newrelic
-    celery: pytest<7
     {py3.7}-celery: importlib-metadata<5.0
 
     # Chalice