diff --git a/.github/workflows/check.yaml b/.github/workflows/check.yaml
index 65f4f8b..8d600a7 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/check.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/check.yaml
@@ -8,12 +8,12 @@ jobs:
 
   # For linting, any one Python version is enough
   lint:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-18.04
+    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v3
       - uses: actions/setup-python@v4
         with:
-          python-version: 3.6.15
+          python-version: 3.10.8
       - run: make lint
 
   # For testing, we try to use as many versions as possible. Here we're
diff --git a/.pylintrc b/.pylintrc
index 12fce90..d9a0cf5 100644
--- a/.pylintrc
+++ b/.pylintrc
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ disable=
     suppressed-message,
     fixme,
     missing-docstring,
-    bad-continuation,  # incompatible with black
     unspecified-encoding,  # we still support python2
     consider-using-f-string,  # we still support python2
 
diff --git a/requirements-dev.txt b/requirements-dev.txt
index d6a53e8..42606e8 100644
--- a/requirements-dev.txt
+++ b/requirements-dev.txt
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-pylint == 2.12.2
-black == 21.12b0
+pylint == 2.15.5
+black == 22.10.0