diff --git a/.github/workflows/test.yml b/.github/workflows/test.yml
index 4cb22adbd..50039becb 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/test.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/test.yml
@@ -227,8 +227,8 @@ jobs:
         name: Test hls-explicit-record-fields-plugin test suite
         run: cabal test hls-explicit-record-fields-plugin-tests || cabal test hls-explicit-record-fields-plugin-tests
 
-      ## version needs to be limited since the tests depend on cabal-fmt which only builds using specific ghc versions
-      - if: matrix.test && matrix.ghc == '9.2' # TODO cabal-fmt only worked with 9.2? decide what to do with it
+      # versions need to be limited since the tests depend on cabal-fmt which only builds with ghc <9.10
+      - if: matrix.test && matrix.ghc != '9.10'
         name: Test hls-cabal-fmt-plugin test suite
         run: cabal test hls-cabal-fmt-plugin-tests --flag=isolateCabalfmtTests || cabal test hls-cabal-fmt-plugin-tests --flag=isolateCabalfmtTests
 
diff --git a/haskell-language-server.cabal b/haskell-language-server.cabal
index d96f28ae9..35d89e87b 100644
--- a/haskell-language-server.cabal
+++ b/haskell-language-server.cabal
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ test-suite hls-cabal-fmt-plugin-tests
     , hls-test-utils        == 2.9.0.0
 
   if flag(isolateCabalfmtTests)
-    build-tool-depends: cabal-fmt:cabal-fmt ^>=0.1.6
+    build-tool-depends: cabal-fmt:cabal-fmt ^>=0.1.12
     cpp-options: -Dhls_isolate_cabalfmt_tests
 
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