diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index efbf68c9..23a5d879 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ ci = [
 # making the fallback tests vacuous.
 ci-fallback = [
     "pytest==9.0.3",
-    "pytest-asyncio==1.3.0",
+    "pytest-asyncio==1.4.0",
     "pytest-xdist==3.8.0",
 ]