diff --git a/poetry.lock b/poetry.lock
index 06f5ea5d..11d467e6 100644
--- a/poetry.lock
+++ b/poetry.lock
@@ -1935,23 +1935,23 @@ dev = ["argcomplete", "attrs (>=19.2)", "hypothesis (>=3.56)", "mock", "requests
 
 [[package]]
 name = "pytest-cov"
-version = "6.3.0"
+version = "7.1.0"
 description = "Pytest plugin for measuring coverage."
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.9"
 groups = ["dev"]
 files = [
-    {file = "pytest_cov-6.3.0-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:440db28156d2468cafc0415b4f8e50856a0d11faefa38f30906048fe490f1749"},
-    {file = "pytest_cov-6.3.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:35c580e7800f87ce892e687461166e1ac2bcb8fb9e13aea79032518d6e503ff2"},
+    {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 = "pytest-mock"
@@ -2481,4 +2481,4 @@ plot = ["matplotlib", "plotly"]
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "2.1"
 python-versions = ">=3.10,<3.15"
-content-hash = "b0b2336ed601d2f07ddccfa9b38499e24074cceb679cb9ba1a72c13356272b6d"
+content-hash = "c665b982520540bd2af681785a2118d1e115b79dc37f3005b32d654188df9908"
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 69251a9d..ab3f53e5 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ simvue-sender = "simvue.bin.sender:sender_cli"
 
 [tool.poetry.group.dev.dependencies]
 ruff = ">=0.15.12,<0.16.0"
-pytest-cov = ">=4.1,<7.0"
+pytest-cov = ">=7.1.0,<8.0"
 pytest-mock = "^3.14.0"
 pytest-sugar = "^1.0.0"
 pytest-xdist = "^3.6.1"