diff --git a/poetry.lock b/poetry.lock
index 744ea46b3..64abbf059 100644
--- a/poetry.lock
+++ b/poetry.lock
@@ -1196,46 +1196,28 @@ files = [
 
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 description = "A self-contained Python driver for communicating with MySQL servers, using an API that is compliant with the Python Database API Specification v2.0 (PEP 249)."
 optional = false
-python-versions = ">=3.9"
+python-versions = ">=3.10"
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 [package.extras]
 dns-srv = ["dnspython (==2.6.1)"]
-fido2 = ["fido2 (==1.1.2)"]
 gssapi = ["gssapi (==1.8.3)"]
-telemetry = ["opentelemetry-api (==1.18.0)", "opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-http (==1.18.0)", "opentelemetry-sdk (==1.18.0)"]
+telemetry = ["opentelemetry-api (==1.33.1)", "opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-http (==1.33.1)", "opentelemetry-sdk (==1.33.1)"]
+webauthn = ["fido2 (==1.1.2)"]
 
 [[package]]
 name = "mysql-shell-client"
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 674c27523..32f7c4ae0 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ integration = [
     "pytest~=7.4",
     "pytest-operator~=0.35.0",
     "juju~=3.6",
-    "mysql-connector-python~=9.1",
+    "mysql-connector-python~=9.6",
     "tenacity~=8.2",
     "boto3~=1.28",
     "pyyaml~=6.0",