diff --git a/mypy/test/data.py b/mypy/test/data.py
index 940776bf7b19a..f9bb951650df6 100644
--- a/mypy/test/data.py
+++ b/mypy/test/data.py
@@ -378,7 +378,10 @@ def teardown(self) -> None:
     def reportinfo(self) -> tuple[str, int, str]:
         return self.file, self.line, self.name
 
-    def repr_failure(self, excinfo: Any, style: Any | None = None) -> str:
+    def repr_failure(
+        self, excinfo: pytest.ExceptionInfo[BaseException], style: Any | None = None
+    ) -> str:
+        excrepr: object
         if isinstance(excinfo.value, SystemExit):
             # We assume that before doing exit() (which raises SystemExit) we've printed
             # enough context about what happened so that a stack trace is not useful.
@@ -388,7 +391,7 @@ def repr_failure(self, excinfo: Any, style: Any | None = None) -> str:
         elif isinstance(excinfo.value, pytest.fail.Exception) and not excinfo.value.pytrace:
             excrepr = excinfo.exconly()
         else:
-            self.parent._prunetraceback(excinfo)
+            excinfo.traceback = self.parent._traceback_filter(excinfo)
             excrepr = excinfo.getrepr(style="short")
 
         return f"data: {self.file}:{self.line}:\n{excrepr}"
diff --git a/test-requirements.txt b/test-requirements.txt
index 6611878233689..0b43750bf82ba 100644
--- a/test-requirements.txt
+++ b/test-requirements.txt
@@ -7,9 +7,7 @@ lxml>=4.9.1; (python_version<'3.11' or sys_platform!='win32') and python_version
 pre-commit
 pre-commit-hooks==4.4.0
 psutil>=4.0
-# pytest 6.2.3 does not support Python 3.10
-# TODO: fix use of removed private APIs so we can use the latest pytest
-pytest>=6.2.4,<7.4.0
+pytest>=7.4.0
 pytest-xdist>=1.34.0
 pytest-cov>=2.10.0
 ruff==0.0.272  # must match version in .pre-commit-config.yaml