diff --git a/doc/changelog.d/579.miscellaneous.md b/doc/changelog.d/579.miscellaneous.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..147af956
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/changelog.d/579.miscellaneous.md
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Maint: bump pytest from 8.4.2 to 9.0.1
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 60d78903..5d30af3e 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ tests = [
     "numpy==2.2.6",
     "scipy==1.15.3",
     "pyansys-tools-report==0.8.2",
-    "pytest==8.4.2",
+    "pytest==9.0.1",
     "pytest-cov==7.0.0",
     "pytest-rerunfailures==16.0.1",
     "pyvista==0.46.3",