diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
index 6f2127a8..2788791f 100644
--- a/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -7,23 +7,23 @@ default_stages:
 minimum_pre_commit_version: 2.16.0
 repos:
     - repo: https://github.com/rbubley/mirrors-prettier
-      rev: v3.5.1
+      rev: v3.6.2
       hooks:
           - id: prettier
     - repo: https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff-pre-commit
-      rev: v0.11.2
+      rev: v0.12.8
       hooks:
           - id: ruff
             args: [--fix, --exit-non-zero-on-fix, --unsafe-fixes]
           - id: ruff-format
     - repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/mirrors-mypy
-      rev: v1.15.0
+      rev: v1.17.1
       hooks:
           - id: mypy
             additional_dependencies: [numpy, types-PyYAML]
             exclude: docs/
     - repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit-hooks
-      rev: v5.0.0
+      rev: v6.0.0
       hooks:
           - id: detect-private-key
           - id: check-ast
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index fefc1a37..ec30392b 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -61,8 +61,10 @@ test = [
     "pytest-cov",
 ]
 # this will be used by readthedocs and will make pip also look for pre-releases, generally installing the latest available version
+# update: readthedocs doens't seem to try to install pre-releases even if when trying to install the pre optional-dependency. For
+# the moment, if needed, let's add the latest pre-release explicitly here.
 pre = [
-    "spatialdata>=0.1.0-pre0"
+    "spatialdata>=0.4.0rc0"
 ]
 
 [tool.coverage.run]