diff --git a/requirements-dev.txt b/requirements-dev.txt
index 94d85b44..0fd19af4 100644
--- a/requirements-dev.txt
+++ b/requirements-dev.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 # compute coverage, and create test environments. note that depending on the version of python installed, different
 # versions of requirements may be installed due to package incompatibilities.
 #
-black==23.10.1
+black==24.3.0
 codespell==2.2.6
 coverage==7.3.2
 hdf5plugin==4.3.0  # hdf5plugin is used to test conversion of plugin filters