diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 31ab666..c2246e5 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # latest supported family for that target interpreter; the controller uses
 # Python 3.10 in CI.
 ansible==9.13.0
-ansible-core==2.16.14
+ansible-core==2.16.19rc1
 ansible-lint==6.22.2
 # Docker SDK 5 is incompatible with Requests 2.32+, which current GitHub-hosted
 # runners install. Molecule uses this SDK for its Docker driver sanity check.