diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
index 7e542c333..b4c94e769 100644
--- a/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ repos:
         exclude: "^tests"
 
   - repo: https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff-pre-commit
-    rev: v0.9.9
+    rev: v0.11.0
     hooks:
       - id: ruff
         args: ["--fix", "--show-fixes"]
@@ -129,12 +129,12 @@ repos:
         additional_dependencies: [cogapp]
 
   - repo: https://github.com/henryiii/validate-pyproject-schema-store
-    rev: 2025.02.24
+    rev: 2025.03.10
     hooks:
       - id: validate-pyproject
 
   - repo: https://github.com/python-jsonschema/check-jsonschema
-    rev: 0.31.2
+    rev: 0.31.3
     hooks:
       - id: check-dependabot
       - id: check-github-workflows
diff --git a/src/scikit_build_core/format.py b/src/scikit_build_core/format.py
index a942ad8fc..7f38dbd44 100644
--- a/src/scikit_build_core/format.py
+++ b/src/scikit_build_core/format.py
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ def pyproject_format(
     """Generate :py:class:`PyprojectFormatter` dictionary to use in f-string format."""
     if dummy:
         # Return a dict with all the known keys but with values replaced with dummy values
-        return {key: "*" for key in PyprojectFormatter.__annotations__}
+        return dict.fromkeys(PyprojectFormatter.__annotations__, "*")
 
     assert settings is not None
     # First set all known values
diff --git a/src/scikit_build_core/hatch/plugin.py b/src/scikit_build_core/hatch/plugin.py
index 7cde735bd..affefb46b 100644
--- a/src/scikit_build_core/hatch/plugin.py
+++ b/src/scikit_build_core/hatch/plugin.py
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 import tempfile
 import typing
 from pathlib import Path
-from typing import Any, Literal
+from typing import Any
 
 from hatchling.builders.hooks.plugin.interface import BuildHookInterface
 from packaging.version import Version
@@ -46,7 +46,9 @@ def _read_config(self) -> SettingsReader:
         config_dict.pop("require-runtime-dependencies", None)
         config_dict.pop("require-runtime-features", None)
 
-        state = typing.cast(Literal["sdist", "wheel", "editable"], self.target_name)
+        state = typing.cast(
+            "typing.Literal['sdist', 'wheel', 'editable']", self.target_name
+        )
         return SettingsReader.from_file(
             "pyproject.toml", state=state, extra_settings=config_dict
         )
diff --git a/src/scikit_build_core/resources/_editable_redirect.py b/src/scikit_build_core/resources/_editable_redirect.py
index fdf08a9a0..677f37ac8 100644
--- a/src/scikit_build_core/resources/_editable_redirect.py
+++ b/src/scikit_build_core/resources/_editable_redirect.py
@@ -6,9 +6,11 @@
 import subprocess
 import sys
 
+# Importing as little as possible is important, since every usage of Python
+# imports this file. That's why we use this trick for TYPE_CHECKING
 TYPE_CHECKING = False
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
-    import importlib.machinery
+    from importlib.machinery import ModuleSpec
 
 
 DIR = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))
@@ -133,7 +135,7 @@ def find_spec(
         fullname: str,
         path: object = None,
         target: object = None,
-    ) -> importlib.machinery.ModuleSpec | None:
+    ) -> ModuleSpec | None:
         # If no known submodule_search_locations is found, it means it is a root
         # module.
         if fullname in self.submodule_search_locations:
diff --git a/src/scikit_build_core/settings/sources.py b/src/scikit_build_core/settings/sources.py
index 7cfb3c8ef..d288e340f 100644
--- a/src/scikit_build_core/settings/sources.py
+++ b/src/scikit_build_core/settings/sources.py
@@ -639,6 +639,6 @@ def unrecognized_options(self, options: object) -> Generator[str, None, None]:
 
 
 if typing.TYPE_CHECKING:
-    _: Source = typing.cast(EnvSource, None)
-    _ = typing.cast(ConfSource, None)
-    _ = typing.cast(TOMLSource, None)
+    _: Source = typing.cast("EnvSource", None)
+    _ = typing.cast("ConfSource", None)
+    _ = typing.cast("TOMLSource", None)
diff --git a/tests/test_builder.py b/tests/test_builder.py
index 10e4b0e3d..27ace40c1 100644
--- a/tests/test_builder.py
+++ b/tests/test_builder.py
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ def test_builder_macos_arch_extra(monkeypatch):
     archflags = "-arch arm64 -arch x86_64"
     monkeypatch.setattr(sys, "platform", "darwin")
     monkeypatch.setenv("ARCHFLAGS", archflags)
-    tmpcfg = typing.cast(CMaker, SimpleNamespace(env=os.environ.copy()))
+    tmpcfg = typing.cast("CMaker", SimpleNamespace(env=os.environ.copy()))
 
     tmpbuilder = Builder(
         settings=ScikitBuildSettings(wheel=WheelSettings()),
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ def test_builder_macos_arch_extra(monkeypatch):
 )
 def test_builder_get_cmake_args(monkeypatch, cmake_args, answer):
     monkeypatch.setenv("CMAKE_ARGS", cmake_args)
-    tmpcfg = typing.cast(CMaker, SimpleNamespace(env=os.environ.copy()))
+    tmpcfg = typing.cast("CMaker", SimpleNamespace(env=os.environ.copy()))
     tmpbuilder = Builder(
         settings=ScikitBuildSettings(wheel=WheelSettings()),
         config=tmpcfg,
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ def test_build_tool_args():
     settings = ScikitBuildSettings(build=BuildSettings(tool_args=["b"]))
     tmpbuilder = Builder(
         settings=settings,
-        config=typing.cast(CMaker, config),
+        config=typing.cast("CMaker", config),
     )
     tmpbuilder.build(["a"])
     config.build.assert_called_once_with(
diff --git a/tests/test_pyproject_pep660.py b/tests/test_pyproject_pep660.py
index d2f4f3a1d..110bd6806 100644
--- a/tests/test_pyproject_pep660.py
+++ b/tests/test_pyproject_pep660.py
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 
 @pytest.fixture(params=["redirect", "inplace"])
 def editable_mode(request: pytest.FixtureRequest) -> str:
-    return typing.cast(str, request.param)
+    return typing.cast("str", request.param)
 
 
 # TODO: figure out why gmake is reporting no rule to make simple_pure.cpp
diff --git a/tests/test_skbuild_settings.py b/tests/test_skbuild_settings.py
index 61276e3de..88ed4a657 100644
--- a/tests/test_skbuild_settings.py
+++ b/tests/test_skbuild_settings.py
@@ -390,14 +390,29 @@ def test_skbuild_settings_pyproject_toml_broken(
 
     ex = capsys.readouterr().out
     ex = re.sub(r"\x1b(\[.*?[@-~]|\].*?(\x07|\x1b\\))", "", ex)
-    assert (
-        ex.split()
-        == """\
-      ERROR: Unrecognized options in pyproject.toml:
-        tool.scikit-build.cmake.verison -> Did you mean: tool.scikit-build.cmake.version, tool.scikit-build.cmake.verbose, tool.scikit-build.cmake.define?
-        tool.scikit-build.logger -> Did you mean: tool.scikit-build.logging, tool.scikit-build.generate, tool.scikit-build.search?
-      """.split()
-    )
+    assert ex.split() == [
+        "ERROR:",
+        "Unrecognized",
+        "options",
+        "in",
+        "pyproject.toml:",
+        "tool.scikit-build.cmake.verison",
+        "->",
+        "Did",
+        "you",
+        "mean:",
+        "tool.scikit-build.cmake.version,",
+        "tool.scikit-build.cmake.verbose,",
+        "tool.scikit-build.cmake.define?",
+        "tool.scikit-build.logger",
+        "->",
+        "Did",
+        "you",
+        "mean:",
+        "tool.scikit-build.logging,",
+        "tool.scikit-build.generate,",
+        "tool.scikit-build.search?",
+    ]
 
 
 def test_skbuild_settings_pyproject_conf_broken(
@@ -430,14 +445,27 @@ def test_skbuild_settings_pyproject_conf_broken(
     ex = capsys.readouterr().out
     # Filter terminal color codes
     ex = re.sub(r"\x1b(\[.*?[@-~]|\].*?(\x07|\x1b\\))", "", ex)
-    assert (
-        ex.split()
-        == """\
-      ERROR: Unrecognized options in config-settings:
-        cmake.verison -> Did you mean: cmake.version, cmake.verbose, cmake.define?
-        logger -> Did you mean: logging?
-      """.split()
-    )
+    assert ex.split() == [
+        "ERROR:",
+        "Unrecognized",
+        "options",
+        "in",
+        "config-settings:",
+        "cmake.verison",
+        "->",
+        "Did",
+        "you",
+        "mean:",
+        "cmake.version,",
+        "cmake.verbose,",
+        "cmake.define?",
+        "logger",
+        "->",
+        "Did",
+        "you",
+        "mean:",
+        "logging?",
+    ]
 
 
 def test_skbuild_settings_min_version_defaults_strip(
@@ -742,13 +770,33 @@ def test_skbuild_settings_auto_cmake_warning(
     ex = capsys.readouterr().out
     ex = re.sub(r"\x1b(\[.*?[@-~]|\].*?(\x07|\x1b\\))", "", ex)
     print(ex)
-    assert (
-        ex.split()
-        == """\
-            WARNING: CMakeLists.txt not found when looking for minimum CMake version.
-            Report this or (and) set manually to avoid this warning. Using 3.15 as a fall-back.
-      """.split()
-    )
+    assert ex.split() == [
+        "WARNING:",
+        "CMakeLists.txt",
+        "not",
+        "found",
+        "when",
+        "looking",
+        "for",
+        "minimum",
+        "CMake",
+        "version.",
+        "Report",
+        "this",
+        "or",
+        "(and)",
+        "set",
+        "manually",
+        "to",
+        "avoid",
+        "this",
+        "warning.",
+        "Using",
+        "3.15",
+        "as",
+        "a",
+        "fall-back.",
+    ]
 
 
 def test_skbuild_settings_cmake_define_list():