diff --git a/.github/dependabot.yml b/.github/dependabot.yml
index 0793642..dae1038 100644
--- a/.github/dependabot.yml
+++ b/.github/dependabot.yml
@@ -13,6 +13,10 @@ updates:
     groups:
       python:
         patterns: ["*"]
+    ignore:
+      # numpy >= 2.5 requires Python >= 3.12; drop when 3.11 leaves the CI matrix
+      - dependency-name: "numpy"
+        versions: [">=2.5.0"]
 
   # GitHub Actions used in the workflows
   - package-ecosystem: "github-actions"
diff --git a/requirements-dev.txt b/requirements-dev.txt
index 2ea5d64..5f0801c 100644
--- a/requirements-dev.txt
+++ b/requirements-dev.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Test / CI tooling for the data + notebook smoke tests
-pytest>=7.4
-nbformat>=5.9
-nbmake>=1.5
-ipykernel>=6.25
-pandas>=1.5
+pytest>=9.1.1
+nbformat>=5.10.4
+nbmake>=1.5.5
+ipykernel>=7.3.0
+pandas>=3.0.3
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index fbcac12..841204d 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-pandas>=1.5
-numpy>=1.23
-matplotlib>=3.9
+pandas>=3.0.3
+numpy>=2.4
+matplotlib>=3.11.0