diff --git a/.github/workflows/build.yml b/.github/workflows/build.yml
index a04d3a923..eccbd9a96 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build.yml
@@ -80,7 +80,6 @@ jobs:
           only_create_file: 1
       - name: Run the unit tests
         run: |
-          export PIP_CONSTRAINT="./contraints_file.txt"
           hatch run test:nowarn || hatch run test:nowarn --lf
 
   test_prereleases:
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index a256ef406..8f1b4560e 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ Tracker = "https://github.com/jupyter/notebook/issues"
 test = [
     "coverage",
     "nbval",
-    "pytest>=6.0",
+    "pytest>=7.0",
     "pytest-cov",
     "requests",
     "pytest-tornasync",