diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
index b9beadea..b496bee5 100644
--- a/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ exclude: |
   )$
 repos:
   - repo: https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff-pre-commit
-    rev: v0.13.2
+    rev: v0.15.20
     hooks:
       - id: ruff
         args: [--fix, --exit-non-zero-on-fix]
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ repos:
       - id: check-added-large-files
       - id: check-yaml
   - repo: https://github.com/codespell-project/codespell
-    rev: v2.4.1
+    rev: v2.4.2
     hooks:
       - id: codespell
         args: ["--ignore-words-list", "crate,releas", "--skip", "*.svg"]
diff --git a/src/pharaoh/templating/second_level/template_env.py b/src/pharaoh/templating/second_level/template_env.py
index 3ceb7090..f9423741 100644
--- a/src/pharaoh/templating/second_level/template_env.py
+++ b/src/pharaoh/templating/second_level/template_env.py
@@ -282,7 +282,7 @@ def join_path(self, template: str, parent: str) -> str:
             # In this case under Python 3.7, the following parent.is_dir() is failing because os.stat
             # does not allow <> in the file path, Python 3.9 does, apparently.
             # So we split off the suffix after <> (which would be done anyway using the "parent.parent" statement).
-            parent = parent.split("<>")[0]
+            parent = parent.split("<>", maxsplit=1)[0]
         parent_path = Path(parent)
         if not parent_path.is_dir():
             parent_path = parent_path.parent