diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
index 4b2ab31ddb..137bb30330 100644
--- a/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ repos:
     - id: mypy
       additional_dependencies:
         - "pandas-stubs"
-        - "somacore==1.0.0rc0"
+        - "somacore==1.0.0rc2"
         - "types-setuptools"
       args: ["--config-file=apis/python/pyproject.toml", "apis/python/src", "apis/python/devtools"]
       pass_filenames: false
diff --git a/apis/python/setup.py b/apis/python/setup.py
index 4a1e259bb3..3fddd36e2d 100644
--- a/apis/python/setup.py
+++ b/apis/python/setup.py
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ def run(self):
         "pyarrow>=9.0.0",
         "scanpy>=1.9.2",
         "scipy",
-        "somacore==1.0.0rc0",
+        "somacore==1.0.0rc2",
         "tiledb==0.20.*",
         "typing-extensions",  # Note "-" even though `import typing_extensions`
     ],