diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index e3c2c66..476fa14 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ dependencies = [
     "pydantic-settings",
     "granian[uvloop]",
     "argon2-cffi",
-    "db-retry",
+    "db-retry>=0.7.1",
     # database
     "alembic",
     "alembic-postgresql-enum",
diff --git a/tests/use_cases/test_connection_loss.py b/tests/use_cases/test_connection_loss.py
index 830b28e..ad8a19d 100644
--- a/tests/use_cases/test_connection_loss.py
+++ b/tests/use_cases/test_connection_loss.py
@@ -1,12 +1,10 @@
 import asyncio
 import typing
 
-import advanced_alchemy.exceptions
 import asyncpg
 import modern_di
 import pytest
 import sqlalchemy as sa
-from sqlalchemy.exc import InterfaceError
 from sqlalchemy.ext.asyncio import AsyncSession
 
 from app import ioc
@@ -15,12 +13,6 @@
 from app.exceptions import PermissionDeniedError
 
 
-pytestmark = pytest.mark.xfail(
-    raises=(advanced_alchemy.exceptions.IntegrityError, InterfaceError),
-    reason="the released db-retry does not retry a closed connection; modern-python/db-retry#69 does",
-    strict=True,
-)
-
 UNKNOWN_ACTOR: typing.Final = Actor(id=-1)