diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 26cbc9e..1aa17be 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -151,7 +151,6 @@ jobs:
           key: modflow6-examples-${{ hashFiles('modflow6-examples/data/**') }}
       
       - name: Install extra Python packages
-        if: steps.cache-examples.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
         working-directory: modflow6-examples/etc
         run: |
           pip install -r requirements.pip.txt
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 3ed78e8..16c2018 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ test = [
     "meson!=0.63.0",
     "ninja",
     "numpy",
-    "pytest",
+    "pytest!=8.1.0",
     "pytest-cov",
     "pytest-dotenv",
     "pytest-xdist",