diff --git a/bypy/macos.conf b/bypy/macos.conf
index 3bb4b7dd38..6b79d3faca 100644
--- a/bypy/macos.conf
+++ b/bypy/macos.conf
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 vm_name 'macos-calibre'
 root '/Users/Shared/calibre-build'
-python '/usr/bin/python3'
+python '/usr/local/bin/python3'
 rsync '/usr/local/bin/rsync'
 # see https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/macos.html
 # further, onnxruntime needs macOS 13.3 https://github.com/microsoft/onnxruntime/pull/23308
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index cd05bbf2c8..2e9a9b416e 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ dependencies = [
 	"css-parser == 1.0.10",
 	"python-dateutil == 2.8.2",
 	"jeepney == 0.8.0",
-	"dnspython == 2.4.2",
+	"dnspython == 2.6.1",
 	"mechanize == 0.4.8",
 	"feedparser == 6.0.10",
 	"sgmllib3k == 1.0.0",
@@ -27,11 +27,11 @@ dependencies = [
 	"uchardet == 0.0.8",
 	"msgpack == 1.0.7",
 	"Pygments == 2.16.1",
-	"pycryptodome == 3.19.0",
+	"pycryptodome == 3.19.1",
 	"apsw == 3.43.0.0",
 	"webencodings == 0.5.1",
 	"html5lib == 1.1",
-	"pillow == 10.0.1",
+	"pillow == 10.3.0",
 	"netifaces == 0.11.0",
 	"psutil == 5.9.5",
 	"ifaddr == 0.2.0",