diff --git a/.github/workflows/tests.yml b/.github/workflows/tests.yml
index 84c4f2fe..5002ae9d 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/tests.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/tests.yml
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
-        python-version: ["3.8", "3.11"]
+        python-version: ["3.9", "3.11"]
     steps:
     - name: Checkout capa with submodules
       # do only run if BN_SERIAL is available, have to do this in every step, see https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/26726#discussioncomment-3253118
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index ff8f9759..97bac841 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ Unlock powerful malware analysis with capa's new [VMRay sandbox](https://www.vmr
 
 ### Development
 - CI: use macos-12 since macos-11 is deprecated and will be removed on June 28th, 2024 #2173 @mr-tz
+- CI: update Binary Ninja version to 4.1 and use Python 3.9 to test it #2211 @xusheng6
 
 ### Raw diffs
 - [capa v7.1.0...master](https://github.com/mandiant/capa/compare/v7.1.0...master)
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index b73c14d7..cdbc30eb 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -149,15 +149,15 @@ dev = [
     "types-termcolor==1.1.4",
     "types-psutil==5.8.23",
     "types_requests==2.32.0.20240602",
-    "types-protobuf==5.26.0.20240422",
-    "deptry==0.16.1"
+    "types-protobuf==5.27.0.20240626",
+    "deptry==0.17.0"
 ]
 build = [
     # Dev and build dependencies are not relaxed because
     # we want all developer environments to be consistent.
     # These dependencies are not used in production environments
     # and should not conflict with other libraries/tooling.
-    "pyinstaller==6.8.0",
+    "pyinstaller==6.9.0",
     "setuptools==70.0.0",
     "build==1.2.1"
 ]
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index f0a60408..5e1b0022 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ mdurl==0.1.2
 msgpack==1.0.8
 networkx==3.1
 pefile==2023.2.7
-pip==24.0
+pip==24.1.2
 protobuf==5.27.1
 pyasn1==0.4.8
 pyasn1-modules==0.2.8
diff --git a/tests/test_binja_features.py b/tests/test_binja_features.py
index c226d2ee..09a9a0a1 100644
--- a/tests/test_binja_features.py
+++ b/tests/test_binja_features.py
@@ -63,4 +63,4 @@ def test_standalone_binja_backend():
 @pytest.mark.skipif(binja_present is False, reason="Skip binja tests if the binaryninja Python API is not installed")
 def test_binja_version():
     version = binaryninja.core_version_info()
-    assert version.major == 4 and version.minor == 0
+    assert version.major == 4 and version.minor == 1