diff --git a/eng/Versions.props b/eng/Versions.props
index b177bbfd5c..44869c8c6b 100644
--- a/eng/Versions.props
+++ b/eng/Versions.props
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@
     <BenchmarkDotNetVersion>0.13.12</BenchmarkDotNetVersion>
     <DotNetRuntime60Version>6.0.36</DotNetRuntime60Version>
     <DotNetRuntime80Version>8.0.16</DotNetRuntime80Version>
-    <AwesomeAssertionsVersion>8.1.0</AwesomeAssertionsVersion>
+    <AwesomeAssertionsVersion>9.6.0</AwesomeAssertionsVersion>
     <MicrosoftCodeAnalysisTestingVersion>1.1.2</MicrosoftCodeAnalysisTestingVersion>
     <MicrosoftDotNetBuildTasksTemplatingVersion>9.0.0-beta.24212.4</MicrosoftDotNetBuildTasksTemplatingVersion>
     <MicrosoftDotNetPlatformAbstractionsVersion>5.0.0-preview.5.20278.1</MicrosoftDotNetPlatformAbstractionsVersion>