diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index ee8bdd870..9fcf0ca52 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ${{ matrix.runs-on }}
 
     steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
     - name: Setup Python ${{ matrix.python }}
       uses: actions/setup-python@v4
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
 
     steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
     - name: Setup Python ${{ matrix.python-version }} (deadsnakes)
       uses: deadsnakes/action@v3.0.1
@@ -310,7 +310,7 @@ jobs:
     container: "silkeh/clang:${{ matrix.clang }}${{ matrix.container_suffix }}"
 
     steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
     - name: Add wget and python3
       run: apt-get update && apt-get install -y python3-dev python3-numpy python3-pytest libeigen3-dev
@@ -344,7 +344,7 @@ jobs:
     container: nvidia/cuda:12.2.0-devel-ubuntu22.04
 
     steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
     # tzdata will try to ask for the timezone, so set the DEBIAN_FRONTEND
     - name: Install 🐍 3
@@ -368,7 +368,7 @@ jobs:
 #    container: centos:8
 #
 #    steps:
-#    - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+#    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
 #
 #    - name: Add Python 3 and a few requirements
 #      run: yum update -y && yum install -y git python3-devel python3-numpy python3-pytest make environment-modules
@@ -413,7 +413,7 @@ jobs:
       # tzdata will try to ask for the timezone, so set the DEBIAN_FRONTEND
       DEBIAN_FRONTEND: 'noninteractive'
     steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
     - name: Add NVHPC Repo
       run: |
@@ -475,7 +475,7 @@ jobs:
     container: "gcc:${{ matrix.gcc }}"
 
     steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
     - name: Add Python 3
       run: apt-get update; apt-get install -y python3-dev python3-numpy python3-pytest python3-pip libeigen3-dev
@@ -535,7 +535,7 @@ jobs:
     name: "🐍 3 • ICC latest • x64"
 
     steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
     - name: Add apt repo
       run: |
@@ -639,7 +639,13 @@ jobs:
     container: "${{ matrix.container }}"
 
     steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+    - name: Latest actions/checkout
+      uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      if: matrix.container != 'centos:7'
+
+    - name: Pin actions/checkout as required for centos:7
+      uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      if: matrix.container == 'centos:7'
 
     - name: Add Python 3 (RHEL 7)
       if: matrix.container == 'centos:7'
@@ -687,7 +693,7 @@ jobs:
     container: i386/debian:buster
 
     steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v1  # Required to run inside docker
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v1  # v1 is required to run inside docker
 
     - name: Install requirements
       run: |
@@ -730,7 +736,7 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
 
     steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
     - uses: actions/setup-python@v4
       with:
@@ -782,7 +788,7 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: windows-2019
 
     steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
     - name: Setup Python ${{ matrix.python }}
       uses: actions/setup-python@v4
@@ -835,7 +841,7 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: windows-2019
 
     steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
     - name: Setup Python ${{ matrix.python }}
       uses: actions/setup-python@v4
@@ -883,7 +889,7 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: windows-2022
 
     steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
     - name: Setup Python ${{ matrix.python }}
       uses: actions/setup-python@v4
@@ -961,7 +967,7 @@ jobs:
           mingw-w64-${{matrix.env}}-boost
           mingw-w64-${{matrix.env}}-catch
 
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
     - name: Configure C++11
       # LTO leads to many undefined reference like
@@ -1032,7 +1038,7 @@ jobs:
         run: env
 
       - name: Checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v3
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
       - name: Set up Clang
         uses: egor-tensin/setup-clang@v1
@@ -1101,7 +1107,7 @@ jobs:
         run: env
 
       - name: Checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v3
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
       - name: Show Clang++ version before brew install llvm
         run: clang++ --version
diff --git a/.github/workflows/configure.yml b/.github/workflows/configure.yml
index ec7cd612d..a49d8d252 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/configure.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/configure.yml
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ${{ matrix.runs-on }}
 
     steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
     - name: Setup Python 3.7
       uses: actions/setup-python@v4
diff --git a/.github/workflows/format.yml b/.github/workflows/format.yml
index b8242ee52..9b2da5944 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/format.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/format.yml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ jobs:
     name: Format
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
     - uses: actions/setup-python@v4
       with:
         python-version: "3.x"
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     container: silkeh/clang:15-bullseye
     steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
     - name: Install requirements
       run: apt-get update && apt-get install -y git python3-dev python3-pytest
diff --git a/.github/workflows/pip.yml b/.github/workflows/pip.yml
index d6687b441..5bc7c4b9c 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pip.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pip.yml
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: windows-latest
 
     steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
     - name: Setup 🐍 3.6
       uses: actions/setup-python@v4
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
 
     steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
     - name: Setup 🐍 3.8
       uses: actions/setup-python@v4
diff --git a/.github/workflows/upstream.yml b/.github/workflows/upstream.yml
index dd8a1c960..5d893cd85 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/upstream.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/upstream.yml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ jobs:
     if: "contains(github.event.pull_request.labels.*.name, 'python dev')"
 
     steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
     - name: Setup Python 3.12
       uses: actions/setup-python@v4
diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
index 4102ee3b9..f1fb4ae11 100644
--- a/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -38,14 +38,14 @@ repos:
 
 # Ruff, the Python auto-correcting linter written in Rust
 - repo: https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff-pre-commit
-  rev: v0.0.281
+  rev: v0.0.287
   hooks:
   - id: ruff
     args: ["--fix", "--show-fixes"]
 
 # Check static types with mypy
 - repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/mirrors-mypy
-  rev: "v1.4.1"
+  rev: "v1.5.1"
   hooks:
   - id: mypy
     args: []
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ repos:
 
 # Also code format the docs
 - repo: https://github.com/asottile/blacken-docs
-  rev: "1.15.0"
+  rev: "1.16.0"
   hooks:
   - id: blacken-docs
     additional_dependencies:
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ repos:
 
 # Changes tabs to spaces
 - repo: https://github.com/Lucas-C/pre-commit-hooks
-  rev: "v1.5.1"
+  rev: "v1.5.4"
   hooks:
   - id: remove-tabs
 
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ repos:
 
 # PyLint has native support - not always usable, but works for us
 - repo: https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint
-  rev: "v3.0.0a6"
+  rev: "v3.0.0a7"
   hooks:
   - id: pylint
     files: ^pybind11
diff --git a/docs/benchmark.py b/docs/benchmark.py
index 2150b6ca7..fb49fd048 100644
--- a/docs/benchmark.py
+++ b/docs/benchmark.py
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ def generate_dummy_code_boost(nclasses=10):
 
 for codegen in [generate_dummy_code_pybind11, generate_dummy_code_boost]:
     print("{")
-    for i in range(0, 10):
+    for i in range(10):
         nclasses = 2**i
         with open("test.cpp", "w") as f:
             f.write(codegen(nclasses))
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 59c15ea63..ef2a8736b 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -94,5 +94,5 @@ line-length = 120
 isort.known-first-party = ["env", "pybind11_cross_module_tests", "pybind11_tests"]
 
 [tool.ruff.per-file-ignores]
-"tests/**" = ["EM", "N"]
+"tests/**" = ["EM", "N", "E721"]
 "tests/test_call_policies.py" = ["PLC1901"]
diff --git a/tests/test_stl_binders.py b/tests/test_stl_binders.py
index e002f5b67..79923f482 100644
--- a/tests/test_stl_binders.py
+++ b/tests/test_stl_binders.py
@@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ def test_map_string_double_const():
 def test_noncopyable_containers():
     # std::vector
     vnc = m.get_vnc(5)
-    for i in range(0, 5):
+    for i in range(5):
         assert vnc[i].value == i + 1
 
     for i, j in enumerate(vnc, start=1):
@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ def test_noncopyable_containers():
 
     # std::deque
     dnc = m.get_dnc(5)
-    for i in range(0, 5):
+    for i in range(5):
         assert dnc[i].value == i + 1
 
     i = 1
@@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ def test_noncopyable_containers():
     # nested std::map<std::vector>
     nvnc = m.get_nvnc(5)
     for i in range(1, 6):
-        for j in range(0, 5):
+        for j in range(5):
             assert nvnc[i][j].value == j + 1
 
     # Note: maps do not have .values()