diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
index 692c7fa2a..424cc5f37 100644
--- a/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -1,14 +1,13 @@
 repos:
 - repo: https://github.com/codespell-project/codespell
-  rev: v2.2.4
+  rev: v2.3.0
   hooks:
   - id: codespell
     additional_dependencies: [tomli]
-    # args: ["--write-changes"]  # consider enabling for auto-fif
-    exclude: "test/fixtures/"
+    exclude: ^test/fixtures/
 
 - repo: https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff-pre-commit
-  rev: v0.4.3
+  rev: v0.6.0
   hooks:
   - id: ruff
     args: ["--fix"]
@@ -17,22 +16,23 @@ repos:
     exclude: ^git/ext/
 
 - repo: https://github.com/shellcheck-py/shellcheck-py
-  rev: v0.9.0.6
+  rev: v0.10.0.1
   hooks:
   - id: shellcheck
     args: [--color]
     exclude: ^test/fixtures/polyglot$|^git/ext/
 
 - repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit-hooks
-  rev: v4.5.0
+  rev: v4.6.0
   hooks:
   - id: end-of-file-fixer
-    exclude: test/fixtures/
+    exclude: ^test/fixtures/|COPYING|LICENSE
+  - id: check-symlinks
   - id: check-toml
   - id: check-yaml
   - id: check-merge-conflict
 
 - repo: https://github.com/abravalheri/validate-pyproject
-  rev: v0.16
+  rev: v0.19
   hooks:
-    - id: validate-pyproject
+  - id: validate-pyproject
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 6cf4b3f5d..090972eed 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -84,6 +84,6 @@ lint.unfixable = [
 
 
 [tool.codespell]
-ignore-words-list="gud,doesnt"
+ignore-words-list="afile,assertIn,doesnt,gud,uptodate"
 #count = true
 quiet-level = 3