diff --git a/CHANGES.rst b/CHANGES.rst
index 0973556b8..081b82478 100644
--- a/CHANGES.rst
+++ b/CHANGES.rst
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ Added
 - CI workflow to post recent project activity in a discussion. Triggered manually.
 - The ``--preview`` configuration flag is now supported in the configuration files for
   Darker and Black
+- Prevent Pylint from updating beyond version 3.2.7 due to dropped Python 3.8 support.
 
 Removed
 -------
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index 191d76a96..b2c10bc6a 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ test =
     pathspec  # to test `gen_python_files` in `test_black_diff.py`
     pydocstyle
     pygments
-    pylint
+    pylint<=3.2.7  # pylint 3.3.0 dropped Python 3.8 support
     pytest>=6.2.0
     pytest-kwparametrize>=0.0.3
     regex>=2021.4.4