diff --git a/.DS_Store b/.DS_Store
deleted file mode 100644
index c29a9cd..0000000
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diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 8a14b91..b98204d 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -131,3 +131,6 @@ dmypy.json
 # VS Code
 .vscode/
 !.vscode/extensions.json
+
+# macOS specific file
+.DS_Store
diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
index d4f3aee..45863fa 100644
--- a/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -1,19 +1,19 @@
 repos:
   - repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit-hooks
-    rev: v5.0.0
+    rev: v6.0.0
     hooks:
       - id: check-yaml
       - id: end-of-file-fixer
       - id: trailing-whitespace
   - repo: https://github.com/pycqa/isort
-    rev: 5.13.2
+    rev: 6.0.1
     hooks:
       - id: isort
         name: isort (python)
         args:
           - --settings-file=pyproject.toml
   - repo: https://github.com/psf/black
-    rev: 24.10.0
+    rev: 25.1.0
     hooks:
       - id: black
   - repo: local
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ repos:
           - -v
           - --rcfile=.pylintrc
   - repo: https://github.com/pycqa/flake8
-    rev: 7.1.1
+    rev: 7.3.0
     hooks:
       - id: flake8
         args:
diff --git a/utility-repo-scripts b/utility-repo-scripts
deleted file mode 100644
index 1cc52b1..0000000
--- a/utility-repo-scripts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-5b710f97958df1dfbf0a6fbfa029a5ed19d92db1
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diff --git a/utility-repo-scripts b/utility-repo-scripts
new file mode 160000
index 0000000..0ecc12a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/utility-repo-scripts
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 0ecc12af82cc201378b115fdd12bf99c7bc1fb29