diff --git a/charms/sunbeam-clusterd/requirements.txt b/charms/sunbeam-clusterd/requirements.txt
index 7939a110..da196bb8 100644
--- a/charms/sunbeam-clusterd/requirements.txt
+++ b/charms/sunbeam-clusterd/requirements.txt
@@ -11,7 +11,8 @@ pydantic<2.0
 lightkube
 lightkube-models
 ops
-requests # Apache 2
+# Pin requests < 2.32.0 pending resolution of LP: #2066540
+requests<2.32.0 # Apache 2
 requests-unixsocket # Apache 2
 urllib3<1.27,>=1.21.1 # MIT
 tenacity
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 2896bc05..7a96c762 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -37,3 +37,6 @@ docstring-convention = "google"
 copyright-check = "True"
 copyright-author = "Canonical Ltd."
 copyright-regexp = "Copyright\\s\\d{4}([-,]\\d{4})*\\s+%(author)s"
+
+[tool.codespell]
+ignore-words-list = "assertIn"