diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 67892ad..c873156 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ test = [
     # are covered by nothing but the jars being present in the archive.
     "psycopg[binary]>=3.1",  # Postgres wire
     "adbc-driver-postgresql>=1.12",  # Postgres wire, Arrow ADBC (26.10.1+)
-    "redis>=5.0",            # Redis wire
+    "redis>=8.1.0",            # Redis wire
     "neo4j>=5.0",            # Bolt
     "pyarrow>=23.0.1",       # ResultSet.to_arrow(); <23.0.1 has PYSEC-2026-113
     "polars>=1.0",           # ResultSet.to_polars(), insert_dataframe() with a Polars frame