diff --git a/test-requirements.txt b/test-requirements.txt
index 44c84fdda8..94a73b7d90 100644
--- a/test-requirements.txt
+++ b/test-requirements.txt
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ netaddr>=0.7.18 # BSD
 Jinja2>=2.10 # BSD
 
 # Requirements for molecule jobs
-ansible-core==2.19.6 # GPL-3.0
+ansible-core==2.19.11rc1 # GPL-3.0
 docker>=7.0.0 # Apache-2.0
 jmespath>=1.0.0 # MIT
 molecule==25.12.0 # MIT