diff --git a/.pylintrc b/.pylintrc
index 754000d2d..90f13ced8 100644
--- a/.pylintrc
+++ b/.pylintrc
@@ -15,10 +15,13 @@ ignore-patterns=
 
 # Python code to execute, usually for sys.path manipulation such as
 # pygtk.require().
-init-hook="import sys; \
-           from pathlib import Path; \
-           from pylint.config import find_pylintrc; \
-           sys.path.append(Path(find_pylintrc()).parent / 'tests');"
+init-hook="import sys;
+           from pathlib import Path;
+           from pylint.config import find_pylintrc;
+
+           tests_folder = Path(find_pylintrc()).parent / 'tests'
+           sys.path.append(str(tests_folder));
+           "
 
 
 # Use multiple processes to speed up Pylint. Specifying 0 will auto-detect the
@@ -178,7 +181,10 @@ disable=format,
         # we use it to speedup/optimize
         import-outside-toplevel,
         fixme,
-
+        # we use cause of the exception for error message output
+        # so some of the times we don't use `raise from` to not show the cause
+        # of the error
+        raise-missing-from,
 
 # Enable the message, report, category or checker with the given id(s). You can
 # either give multiple identifier separated by comma (,) or put this option
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 98d931d97..f78b734e9 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -145,10 +145,9 @@ tests_requirements = [
     "urllib3<1.26.0",
     "rangehttpserver==1.2.0",
     "beautifulsoup4==4.4.0",
-    "pylint==2.5.3",
-    "astroid<2.5",  # temporary required for pylint, see #5469
-    "pylint-pytest>=0.3.0",
-    "pylint-plugin-utils",
+    "pylint==2.7.2",
+    "pylint-pytest==0.3.0",
+    "pylint-plugin-utils==0.6",
     "wget",
     "filelock",
     "mypy",