diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index a293d2abc..dc2dfd3c5 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ lint = [
     "pydocstyle==6.3.0",
     "mypy==1.5.1",
     "reno>=3.4.0",
-    "pylint==2.17.7",
+    "pylint==3.0.2",
     # pydocstyle prefers to parse our pyproject.toml, hence the following line
     "toml",
 ]