diff --git a/poetry.lock b/poetry.lock
index 8177e873..8a0dbd88 100644
--- a/poetry.lock
+++ b/poetry.lock
@@ -788,17 +788,17 @@ files = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "pygments"
-version = "2.13.0"
+version = "2.18.0"
 description = "Pygments is a syntax highlighting package written in Python."
 optional = false
-python-versions = ">=3.6"
+python-versions = ">=3.8"
 files = [
-    {file = "Pygments-2.13.0-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:f643f331ab57ba3c9d89212ee4a2dabc6e94f117cf4eefde99a0574720d14c42"},
-    {file = "Pygments-2.13.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:56a8508ae95f98e2b9bdf93a6be5ae3f7d8af858b43e02c5a2ff083726be40c1"},
+    {file = "pygments-2.18.0-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:b8e6aca0523f3ab76fee51799c488e38782ac06eafcf95e7ba832985c8e7b13a"},
+    {file = "pygments-2.18.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:786ff802f32e91311bff3889f6e9a86e81505fe99f2735bb6d60ae0c5004f199"},
 ]
 
 [package.extras]
-plugins = ["importlib-metadata"]
+windows-terminal = ["colorama (>=0.4.6)"]
 
 [[package]]
 name = "pylint"
@@ -1621,4 +1621,4 @@ test = ["big-O", "importlib-resources", "jaraco.functools", "jaraco.itertools",
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "2.0"
 python-versions = "^3.9"
-content-hash = "e888e4bff0c8b4bcee131c3b7488c67f0082dd1c7dcd4710005c6e3121e45cef"
+content-hash = "7df8cb9e42bd2432e6d171af1c39189bef036b3fce77d4709b2a7b976984eb4c"
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 8449d703..4ea949e7 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ repository = "https://github.com/Robpol86/robpol86.com"
 python = "^3.9"
 # Project dependencies.
 myst-parser = {version = "*", extras = ["linkify"]}
-pygments = "2.13.0"  # TODO: remove after validating code block changes
 Sphinx = "4.5.0"  # TODO: validate sphinx-carousel on Sphinx==5.3.x
 sphinx-book-theme = "0.3.3"  # TODO: validate sphinx-carousel
 sphinx-carousel = "*"