diff --git a/doc/source/changelog/1277.dependencies.md b/doc/source/changelog/1277.dependencies.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d2bae50c1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/source/changelog/1277.dependencies.md
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Bump pypandoc from 1.15 to 1.16
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 5b291e26b..5eb084704 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ doc = [
     "nbsphinx==0.9.7",
     "numpydoc==1.8.0",
     "pyvista[jupyter]==0.45.3",
-    "pypandoc==1.15",
+    "pypandoc==1.16.2",
     "sphinx==8.1.3",
     "sphinx-autodoc-typehints==3.0.1",
     "sphinx-copybutton==0.5.2",