diff --git a/newsfragments/2863.internal.rst b/newsfragments/2863.internal.rst
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@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Bump pytest from 6.2.5 to 7.2.2 because of CI ``DeprecationWarning``
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diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 943ab26eea..531755092b 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -28,10 +28,9 @@
         "flaky>=3.7.0",
         "hypothesis>=3.31.2",
         "importlib-metadata<5.0;python_version<'3.8'",
-        "pytest>=6.2.5",
+        "pytest>=7.0.0",
         "pytest-asyncio>=0.18.1",
         "pytest-mock>=1.10",
-        "pytest-pythonpath>=0.3",
         "pytest-watch>=4.2",
         "pytest-xdist>=1.29",
         "setuptools>=38.6.0",