diff --git a/changes/unreleased/0003.DyfdrDowahpwKiXfFWrWJM.toml b/changes/unreleased/0003.DyfdrDowahpwKiXfFWrWJM.toml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e6eea0ab
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changes/unreleased/0003.DyfdrDowahpwKiXfFWrWJM.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+other = "Bump pytest-asyncio from 0.21.2 to 1.2.0"
+[[pull_requests]]
+uid = "3"
+author_uid = "dependabot[bot]"
+closes_threads = []
diff --git a/requirements-unit-tests.txt b/requirements-unit-tests.txt
index f90d2950..110d353c 100644
--- a/requirements-unit-tests.txt
+++ b/requirements-unit-tests.txt
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ build
 pytest==8.3.5
 
 # needed because pytest doesn't come with native support for coroutines as tests
-pytest-asyncio==0.21.2
+pytest-asyncio==1.2.0
 
 # xdist runs tests in parallel
 pytest-xdist==3.6.1