diff --git a/poetry.lock b/poetry.lock
index 65f795f3..fa7bc7a9 100644
--- a/poetry.lock
+++ b/poetry.lock
@@ -3282,23 +3282,23 @@ dev = ["argcomplete", "attrs (>=19.2)", "hypothesis (>=3.56)", "mock", "requests
 
 [[package]]
 name = "pytest-cov"
-version = "6.2.1"
+version = "7.1.0"
 description = "Pytest plugin for measuring coverage."
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.9"
 groups = ["test"]
 files = [
-    {file = "pytest_cov-6.2.1-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:f5bc4c23f42f1cdd23c70b1dab1bbaef4fc505ba950d53e0081d0730dd7e86d5"},
-    {file = "pytest_cov-6.2.1.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:25cc6cc0a5358204b8108ecedc51a9b57b34cc6b8c967cc2c01a4e00d8a67da2"},
+    {file = "pytest_cov-7.1.0-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:a0461110b7865f9a271aa1b51e516c9a95de9d696734a2f71e3e78f46e1d4678"},
+    {file = "pytest_cov-7.1.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:30674f2b5f6351aa09702a9c8c364f6a01c27aae0c1366ae8016160d1efc56b2"},
 ]
 
 [package.dependencies]
-coverage = {version = ">=7.5", extras = ["toml"]}
+coverage = {version = ">=7.10.6", extras = ["toml"]}
 pluggy = ">=1.2"
-pytest = ">=6.2.5"
+pytest = ">=7"
 
 [package.extras]
-testing = ["fields", "hunter", "process-tests", "pytest-xdist", "virtualenv"]
+testing = ["process-tests", "pytest-xdist", "virtualenv"]
 
 [[package]]
 name = "python-dateutil"
@@ -4627,4 +4627,4 @@ files = [
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "2.1"
 python-versions = ">=3.11,<4.0"
-content-hash = "defd2bfd1c5468e30f85d8eb35c16882560e70db2b56525c74229f9158a24138"
+content-hash = "dd4a5e7d24bc35695c8f673dd13db5bd2ad2b19cd8c638a876466d4bcbcc89f2"
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index bbfa5754..79c240c9 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ optional = true
 
 [tool.poetry.group.test.dependencies]
 coverage = ">=7.16.0,<8.0.0"
-pytest-cov = ">=3,<7"
+pytest-cov = ">=7.1.0,<8"
 pytest = ">=9.1.1,<10.0"
 py = "^1.11.0"
 pymatching = "^2.4.0"