diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
index fc9e3a5..fffc880 100644
--- a/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ fail_fast: true
 
 repos:
 - repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit-hooks
-  rev: v4.6.0
+  rev: v6.0.0
   hooks: # check for large files, aws credentials and private key files
    - id: check-added-large-files
      args: ['--maxkb=200']
@@ -17,13 +17,15 @@ repos:
    - id: detect-private-key
    - id: check-json
    - id: check-yaml
+   - id: trailing-whitespace
+     files: \.py$
 - repo: https://github.com/psf/black
-  rev: 22.8.0
+  rev: 25.9.0
   hooks: # check conformance to black formatting
    - id: black 
      args: ['--check'] # if run without arguments, will fail and will format the files
 - repo: https://github.com/pycqa/flake8
-  rev: 5.0.4
+  rev: 7.3.0
   hooks: # check conformance to PEP8, flake8 formatting
    - id: flake8