diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 19ad9915..dc41205b 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 * [CHORE] ...
 * [FEATURE] ...
 
+* [CHANGE] Bump mocha dependency (by [@faisal][])
 * [CHORE] Uses prism instead of parser for Ruby 3.4 and above (by [@torresga][] and [@julioalucero][])
 * [BUGFIX] Respect excluded paths from .reek configuration file during reek analysis (by [@fbuys][])
 
diff --git a/rubycritic.gemspec b/rubycritic.gemspec
index 95c4b6c9..35f9ef5f 100644
--- a/rubycritic.gemspec
+++ b/rubycritic.gemspec
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |spec|
   spec.add_development_dependency 'mdl', '~> 0.13.0', '>= 0.12.0'
   spec.add_development_dependency 'minitest', '~> 5.26.0', '>= 5.3.0'
   spec.add_development_dependency 'minitest-around', '~> 0.5.0', '>= 0.4.0'
-  spec.add_development_dependency 'mocha', '~> 2.7.1'
+  spec.add_development_dependency 'mocha', '~> 2.8.0'
   spec.add_development_dependency 'ostruct'
   spec.add_development_dependency 'rake', '~> 13.3.0', '>= 11.0.0'
   spec.add_development_dependency 'rdoc'