diff --git a/requirements/dev.in b/requirements/dev.in
index ea8db53f2c..45b0d7d430 100644
--- a/requirements/dev.in
+++ b/requirements/dev.in
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ ruff
 
 # Needed for watching file changes
 pyinotify
+pyasyncore  # https://github.com/seb-m/pyinotify/issues/204
 
 # Needed to run tests in parallel
 tblib
diff --git a/requirements/dev.txt b/requirements/dev.txt
index 4b5a73e4ee..42572316b7 100644
--- a/requirements/dev.txt
+++ b/requirements/dev.txt
@@ -2142,6 +2142,10 @@ pyasn1-modules==0.4.0 \
     # via
     #   python-ldap
     #   service-identity
+pyasyncore==1.0.4 \
+    --hash=sha256:2c7a8b9b750ba6260f1e5a061456d61320a80579c6a43d42183417da89c7d5d6 \
+    --hash=sha256:9e5f6dc9dc057c56370b7a5cdb4c4670fd4b0556de2913ed1f428cd6a5366895
+    # via -r requirements/dev.in
 pycparser==2.22 \
     --hash=sha256:491c8be9c040f5390f5bf44a5b07752bd07f56edf992381b05c701439eec10f6 \
     --hash=sha256:c3702b6d3dd8c7abc1afa565d7e63d53a1d0bd86cdc24edd75470f4de499cfcc
diff --git a/version.py b/version.py
index efbb35ddf3..3e38faf34d 100644
--- a/version.py
+++ b/version.py
@@ -48,4 +48,4 @@ API_FEATURE_LEVEL = 255
 #   historical commits sharing the same major version, in which case a
 #   minor version bump suffices.
 
-PROVISION_VERSION = (269, 2)  # last bumped 2024-04-25 for Transifex CLI upgrade
+PROVISION_VERSION = (269, 3)  # last bumped 2024-04-29 for adding pyasyncore