diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 63af509da..dc5341537 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ optional-dependencies.dev = [
     "pydocstyle==6.3",
     "pyenchant==3.3.0rc1",
     "pylint==3.3.8",
-    "pylint-per-file-ignores==1.4.0",
+    "pylint-per-file-ignores==2.0.3",
     "pyproject-fmt==2.6.0",
     "pyright==1.1.404",
     "pyroma==5.0",
@@ -224,8 +224,9 @@ load-plugins = [
 # - We want to use generated module names, which may not be valid, but are never seen.
 # - We want to use global variables in documentation, which may not be uppercase
 per-file-ignores = [
-    "docs/:invalid-name",
-    "doccmd_README_rst.*.py:invalid-name",
+    "docs/source/conf.py:invalid-name",
+    "docs/source/doccmd_*.py:invalid-name",
+    "doccmd_README_rst_*.py:invalid-name",
 ]
 
 [tool.pylint.'MESSAGES CONTROL']