diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 1d2e682..9da9b80 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ dev-flake8 = [
   "flake8-datetimez == 20.10.0",
   "flake8-docstrings == 1.7.0",
   "flake8-pyproject == 1.2.4", # For reading the flake8 config from pyproject.toml
-  "pydoclint == 0.8.5",
+  "pydoclint == 0.8.6",
   "pydocstyle == 6.3.0",
   "frequenz-client-base",
 ]