diff --git a/.github/dependabot.yml b/.github/dependabot.yml
index 9f9e6247..496e36d1 100644
--- a/.github/dependabot.yml
+++ b/.github/dependabot.yml
@@ -12,3 +12,4 @@ updates:
     directory: "."
     schedule:
       interval: daily
+    versioning-strategy: increase-if-necessary
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 2891b2b4..32ce01f2 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ dev = [
     "pytest~=8.0",
     "recommonmark~=0.7.1",
     "requests-mock~=1.12",
-    "ruff==0.4.3",
+    "ruff==0.4.4",
     "tomli~=2.0; python_version<'3.11'",
     "types-python-dateutil>=2.8.19,<2.10.0",
     "types-requests~=2.31.0",
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ dev = [
     "urllib3<2",
 ]
 docs = [
-    "Sphinx~=6.2",
+    "Sphinx~=7.3",
     "boto3~=1.26",
     "cartopy~=0.21",
     "geojson~=3.1.0",