diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 4149f18..50abd76 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ Home = "https://github.com/pyvista/pytest-pyvista"
 [project.optional-dependencies]
 tests = [
     "codecov<2.2.0",
-    "coverage==6.5",
+    "coverage==7.0.1",
     "pytest>=3.5.0",
     "pytest-cov==4.0.0",
     "pyvista>=0.37",