diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
index 9e6a7eff..7549736e 100644
--- a/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -24,7 +24,10 @@ repos:
       name: Reorder Python imports (src, tests)
       args: ["--application-directories", "src"]
 - repo: https://github.com/PyCQA/docformatter
-  rev: v1.7.5
+  # We are pinning a specific hash here because the current latest released version (v1.7.5) is
+  # incompatible with pre-commit v4+
+  # issue: https://github.com/PyCQA/docformatter/issues/289
+  rev: eb1df347edd128b30cd3368dddc3aa65edcfac38
   hooks:
     - id: docformatter
       additional_dependencies: [tomli]
diff --git a/requirements-dev.in b/requirements-dev.in
index e4900fb1..6da98854 100644
--- a/requirements-dev.in
+++ b/requirements-dev.in
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ black
 deepdiff
 invoke
 pip-tools>=6.13.0
-pre-commit
+pre-commit~=4.0.0
 pytest
 pytest-env
 pytest-flask
diff --git a/requirements-dev.txt b/requirements-dev.txt
index d121c7f0..54cfae18 100644
--- a/requirements-dev.txt
+++ b/requirements-dev.txt
@@ -319,7 +319,7 @@ ply==3.11
     #   jsonpath-rw
 prance==23.6.21.0
     # via -r requirements.txt
-pre-commit==3.7.1
+pre-commit==4.0.1
     # via -r requirements-dev.in
 psycopg2-binary==2.9.9
     # via -r requirements.txt