diff --git a/reqs/requirements-dev-lite.txt b/reqs/requirements-dev-lite.txt
index 417b3a3db7fc..976939db8fb2 100644
--- a/reqs/requirements-dev-lite.txt
+++ b/reqs/requirements-dev-lite.txt
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ nbconvert>=5
 nbformat>=5.0
 pact-python>=2.0.1
 pyfakefs>=4.5.1
-pytest>=7.2,<8.0  # 8.0 seems to have undocumented change to pytest.warns(SomeWarning) that breaks spark tests
+pytest>=8.2.1,<9.0
 pytest-benchmark>=3.4.1
 pytest-cov>=5.0.0
 pytest-icdiff>=0.6