diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 9293e6e501..5a287038b4 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 
 ### General
 
+- Updated the package requirements to prevent defunct installations of nf-core [#1620](https://github.com/nf-core/tools/pull/1620)
 - Add `--fail-warned` flag to `nf-core lint` to make warnings fail [#1593](https://github.com/nf-core/tools/pull/1593)
 - Add `--fail-warned` flag to pipeline linting workflow [#1593](https://github.com/nf-core/tools/pull/1593)
 
diff --git a/requirements-dev.txt b/requirements-dev.txt
index 7a38e2e51b..28c97723b7 100644
--- a/requirements-dev.txt
+++ b/requirements-dev.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-pytest
 pytest-datafiles
 pytest-cov
 mock
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 798ed3470b..67ee9f79a3 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -6,7 +6,8 @@ jsonschema>=3.0
 markdown>=3.3
 packaging
 prompt_toolkit>=3.0.3
-pytest-workflow
+pytest>=7.0.0
+pytest-workflow>=1.6.0
 pyyaml
 questionary>=1.8.0
 requests