diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index c737936..900cf1a 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ dependencies = [
     "jsonschema >=4.23",
     "logging-tree >=1.9",
     "pyyaml >=6.0",
-    "importlib_metadata >=7.1.0,<8; python_version < '3.10'",
+    "importlib_metadata >=9.0.1,<10; python_version < '3.10'",
     "importlib-resources>=6.4.5 ; python_full_version < '3.11'",
 ]