diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
index bb8e6a1..2fdc65a 100644
--- a/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ ci:
 
 repos:
 - repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit-hooks
-  rev: v4.5.0
+  rev: v4.6.0
   hooks:
   - id: check-added-large-files
   - id: check-case-conflict
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ repos:
   - id: trailing-whitespace
 
 - repo: https://github.com/psf/black-pre-commit-mirror
-  rev: 24.3.0
+  rev: 24.4.2
   hooks:
   - id: black
 
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ repos:
     args: [--include-version-classifiers, --max-py-version=3.11]
 
 - repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/mirrors-mypy
-  rev: v1.9.0
+  rev: v1.10.0
   hooks:
   # 3.9 is broken due to https://github.com/python/typeshed/pull/5216 and https://github.com/python/typeshed/pull/5214
   - id: mypy
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ repos:
     - types-requests
 
 - repo: https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff-pre-commit
-  rev: "v0.3.5"
+  rev: "v0.4.7"
   hooks:
     - id: ruff
       args: ["--fix", "--show-fixes"]
diff --git a/src/skhep_testdata/remote_files.py b/src/skhep_testdata/remote_files.py
index b85216c..d31ce83 100644
--- a/src/skhep_testdata/remote_files.py
+++ b/src/skhep_testdata/remote_files.py
@@ -27,7 +27,8 @@ def get_config_for_file(cls, filename: str) -> dict[str, str]:
         config = cls._all_files.get(filename, None)
 
         if not config:
-            raise RuntimeError("Unknown remote file: %s" % filename)
+            msg = f"Unknown remote file: {filename}"
+            raise RuntimeError(msg)
 
         return config.copy()
 
@@ -110,8 +111,8 @@ def remote_file(
 ) -> str:
     config = RemoteDatasetList.get_config_for_file(filename)
     if not config and raise_missing:
-        raise RuntimeError("Unknown %s cannot be found" % filename)
-        return None
+        msg = f"Unknown {filename} cannot be found"
+        raise RuntimeError(msg)
 
     path = os.path.join(data_dir, filename)
     if not os.path.isfile(path):
@@ -119,6 +120,7 @@ def remote_file(
         fetch_remote_dataset(**config)  # type: ignore[arg-type]
 
     if not os.path.isfile(path) and raise_missing:
-        raise RuntimeError("%s cannot be found" % filename)
+        msg = f"{filename} cannot be found"
+        raise RuntimeError(msg)
 
     return path
diff --git a/tests/test_local_files.py b/tests/test_local_files.py
index 34e8a76..d1295b4 100644
--- a/tests/test_local_files.py
+++ b/tests/test_local_files.py
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 from __future__ import annotations
 
 import os
+
 import pytest
 import requests