diff --git a/requirements_dev.txt b/requirements_dev.txt
index 6aa1025..1ef9be0 100644
--- a/requirements_dev.txt
+++ b/requirements_dev.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 anndata>=0.7.8
 bump2version==0.5.11
-coverage==4.5.4
+coverage==7.2.5
 flake8==3.7.8
 h5py>=2.10.0
 igraph>=0.9.9