diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 667c12e6..f8b8c460 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ dev = [
     "openadapt-types>=0.7.0,<0.8.0",
     # Engineering-hygiene gates (lint+format, type-check, coverage). Pinned to
     # majors so CI and local dev run the same checkers.
-    "ruff==0.15.22",
+    "ruff==0.16.1",
     "mypy>=1.11",
     "pytest-cov>=5.0",
     "jsonschema>=4.21",