diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
index 9ae674ab5..716ddd896 100644
--- a/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # See https://pre-commit.com/hooks.html for info on hooks
 repos:
   - repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit-hooks
-    rev: v4.6.0
+    rev: v5.0.0
     hooks:
       - id: check-added-large-files
       - id: check-ast
@@ -16,14 +16,14 @@ repos:
 
   - repo: https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff-pre-commit
     # ruff version should match the one in pyproject.toml
-    rev: v0.4.10
+    rev: v0.7.2
     hooks:
       - id: ruff
         args: [--fix, --exit-non-zero-on-fix]
       - id: ruff-format
 
   - repo: https://github.com/rtts/djhtml
-    rev: '3.0.6'
+    rev: '3.0.7'
     hooks:
       - id: djhtml
       - id: djcss
diff --git a/pelican/tools/pelican_quickstart.py b/pelican/tools/pelican_quickstart.py
index e278e3bc4..77131a521 100755
--- a/pelican/tools/pelican_quickstart.py
+++ b/pelican/tools/pelican_quickstart.py
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ class _DEFAULT_PATH_TYPE(str):  # noqa: SLOT000
 
 
 def ask(question, answer=str, default=None, length=None):
-    if answer == str:
+    if answer is str:
         r = ""
         while True:
             if default:
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ def ask(question, answer=str, default=None, length=None):
 
         return r
 
-    elif answer == bool:
+    elif answer is bool:
         r = None
         while True:
             if default is True:
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ def ask(question, answer=str, default=None, length=None):
             else:
                 print("You must answer 'yes' or 'no'")
         return r
-    elif answer == int:
+    elif answer is int:
         r = None
         while True:
             if default:
diff --git a/pelican/tools/pelican_themes.py b/pelican/tools/pelican_themes.py
index 4d8cee2d1..adf86dc02 100755
--- a/pelican/tools/pelican_themes.py
+++ b/pelican/tools/pelican_themes.py
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@ def err(msg, die=None):
     )
 
 
-global _THEMES_PATH
 _THEMES_PATH = os.path.join(
     os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(pelican.__file__)), "themes"
 )
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 0fce25cab..f36290155 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ dev = [
     "tox>=4.11.3",
     "invoke>=2.2.0",
     # ruff version should match the one in .pre-commit-config.yaml
-    "ruff==0.4.10",
+    "ruff==0.7.2",
     "tomli>=2.0.1; python_version < \"3.11\"",
 ]