diff --git a/poetry.lock b/poetry.lock
index 81b5440..82f5f25 100644
--- a/poetry.lock
+++ b/poetry.lock
@@ -1586,13 +1586,13 @@ typing-extensions = ">=4.6.0,<4.7.0 || >4.7.0"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "pydoclint"
-version = "0.3.9"
+version = "0.4.0"
 description = "A Python docstring linter that checks arguments, returns, yields, and raises sections"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.8"
 files = [
-    {file = "pydoclint-0.3.9-py2.py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:41e2db41e8b0e5259437d9773e56f1e892312da5aca26335729bad15c84be60c"},
-    {file = "pydoclint-0.3.9.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:22864e6788f8051a11d10296957238b86b7ac7081dde0853531abfffb441f797"},
+    {file = "pydoclint-0.4.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:2b266a1332f7c8a1badea115b164a230908004b349750c8ede553a96c4d991b4"},
+    {file = "pydoclint-0.4.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:d645845e316463a151e0828013b4ea9cf4510626a6c4a5abbf7c0447ecafdd3b"},
 ]
 
 [package.dependencies]
@@ -2620,4 +2620,4 @@ testing = ["big-O", "jaraco.functools", "jaraco.itertools", "more-itertools", "p
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "2.0"
 python-versions = "^3.09"
-content-hash = "37deb5abe150ffe6bb20ab0ac1400fe9ae5a2e38c0315322fc3c4c03f434b319"
+content-hash = "13f32469536235a0318af1ec11b35cda0ffd5ae7774eab65d8b4c1843d4b7f58"
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 433fc45..0522865 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ flake8-return = "^1.2.0"
 flake8-unused-arguments = "^0.0.13"
 flake8-useless-assert = "^0.4.4"
 pep8-naming = "^0.13.3"
-pydoclint = "^0.3.8"
+pydoclint = ">=0.3.8,<0.5.0"
 tryceratops = "^2.3.2"
 
 [build-system]