diff --git a/requirements/constraints.txt b/requirements/constraints.txt
index 6602083012e..9770f8e13be 100644
--- a/requirements/constraints.txt
+++ b/requirements/constraints.txt
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ setuptools-scm < 10
 # which leaves the venv in a corrupted state because pip 26.0.1's
 # vendored pygments wheel is missing the modeline submodule on cpython
 # 3.14. Stay on 25.2.
-pip == 25.2
+pip == 26.2
 markdown-it-py < 3.0.0; python_version == "3.9"
 # myst-docutils 4.x (the latest supporting Python 3.10) requires
 # markdown-it-py ~=3.0; the 5.x line that pairs with markdown-it-py 4.x