diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 69dc1e23..18e1b3f7 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ dev = [
     "jupyter-core",
     "jupyter-packaging>=0.7.9",
     "jupyterlab>=4.0.0,<5.0.0",
-    "jupytext==1.15.0",
+    "jupytext==1.16.4",
     "kfactory[git,ipy]",
     "kweb>=2.0.1,<3.0.0",
     "myst-parser",