diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index 753698cf7..3f4cb020b 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -65,7 +65,8 @@ deps =
     reppy
     robotexclusionrulesparser
     # Test dependencies
-    pylint
+    # Force the pylint version used in CI for the 2.5.0 tag
+    pylint==2.7.4
 commands =
     pylint conftest.py docs extras scrapy setup.py tests