diff --git a/doc/whatsnew/fragments/9947.false_positive b/doc/whatsnew/fragments/9947.false_positive
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..dbad36749b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/whatsnew/fragments/9947.false_positive
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+Fix regression causing some f-strings to not be inferred as strings.
+
+Closes #9947
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index f870611273..f4dc647e18 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ dependencies    = [
     # Also upgrade requirements_test_min.txt.
     # Pinned to dev of second minor update to allow editable installs and fix primer issues,
     # see https://github.com/pylint-dev/astroid/issues/1341
-    "astroid>=3.3.3,<=3.4.0-dev0",
+    "astroid>=3.3.4,<=3.4.0-dev0",
     "isort>=4.2.5,<6,!=5.13.0",
     "mccabe>=0.6,<0.8",
     "tomli>=1.1.0;python_version<'3.11'",
diff --git a/requirements_test_min.txt b/requirements_test_min.txt
index bc940cd742..06e60ed7b7 100644
--- a/requirements_test_min.txt
+++ b/requirements_test_min.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 .[testutils,spelling]
 # astroid dependency is also defined in pyproject.toml
-astroid==3.3.3  # Pinned to a specific version for tests
+astroid==3.3.4  # Pinned to a specific version for tests
 typing-extensions~=4.12
 py~=1.11.0
 pytest~=8.3