diff --git a/.github/workflows/test.yml b/.github/workflows/test.yml
index d78e0900fd9..9158d6bcc72 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/test.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/test.yml
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ jobs:
             tox_env: "py313"
             use_coverage: true
           - name: "ubuntu-pypy3"
-            python: "pypy-3.8"
+            python: "pypy-3.9"
             os: ubuntu-latest
             tox_env: "pypy3-xdist"
 
diff --git a/changelog/11771.contrib.rst b/changelog/11771.contrib.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..a3c1ed1099e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog/11771.contrib.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+The PyPy runtime version has been updated to 3.9 from 3.8 that introduced
+a flaky bug at the garbage collector which was not expected to fix there
+as the V3.8 is EoL.
+
+-- by :user:`x612skm`
diff --git a/changelog/12557.contrib.rst b/changelog/12557.contrib.rst
new file mode 120000
index 00000000000..c036c519093
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog/12557.contrib.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+11771.contrib.rst
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/testing/test_skipping.py b/testing/test_skipping.py
index 558e3d35c6a..d1a63b1d920 100644
--- a/testing/test_skipping.py
+++ b/testing/test_skipping.py
@@ -1140,8 +1140,8 @@ def test_func():
     result = pytester.runpytest()
     markline = "            ^"
     pypy_version_info = getattr(sys, "pypy_version_info", None)
-    if pypy_version_info is not None and pypy_version_info < (6,):
-        markline = markline[1:]
+    if pypy_version_info is not None:
+        markline = markline[7:]
 
     if sys.version_info >= (3, 10):
         expected = [