diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index 5dc106a46..4facbe446 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ tests =
     # and, protected method calls in our tests
     pylint-plugin-utils==0.7
     # type-checking
-    mypy==0.961
+    mypy==0.971
     types-requests>=2.27.15
     types-tabulate>=0.8.6
     types-toml>=0.10.4