diff --git a/poetry.lock b/poetry.lock
index e8bfb67..a98e3d1 100644
--- a/poetry.lock
+++ b/poetry.lock
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# This file is automatically @generated by Poetry 1.7.1 and should not be changed by hand.
+# This file is automatically @generated by Poetry 1.8.2 and should not be changed by hand.
 
 [[package]]
 name = "cfgv"
@@ -256,13 +256,13 @@ virtualenv = ">=20.10.0"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "pytest"
-version = "8.0.0"
+version = "8.1.0"
 description = "pytest: simple powerful testing with Python"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.8"
 files = [
-    {file = "pytest-8.0.0-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:50fb9cbe836c3f20f0dfa99c565201fb75dc54c8d76373cd1bde06b06657bdb6"},
-    {file = "pytest-8.0.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:249b1b0864530ba251b7438274c4d251c58d868edaaec8762893ad4a0d71c36c"},
+    {file = "pytest-8.1.0-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:ee32db7af8de4629a455806befa90559f307424c07b8413ccfc30bf5b221dd7e"},
+    {file = "pytest-8.1.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:f8fa04ab8f98d185113ae60ea6d79c22f8143b14bc1caeced44a0ab844928323"},
 ]
 
 [package.dependencies]
@@ -270,11 +270,11 @@ colorama = {version = "*", markers = "sys_platform == \"win32\""}
 exceptiongroup = {version = ">=1.0.0rc8", markers = "python_version < \"3.11\""}
 iniconfig = "*"
 packaging = "*"
-pluggy = ">=1.3.0,<2.0"
-tomli = {version = ">=1.0.0", markers = "python_version < \"3.11\""}
+pluggy = ">=1.4,<2.0"
+tomli = {version = ">=1", markers = "python_version < \"3.11\""}
 
 [package.extras]
-testing = ["argcomplete", "attrs (>=19.2.0)", "hypothesis (>=3.56)", "mock", "nose", "pygments (>=2.7.2)", "requests", "setuptools", "xmlschema"]
+testing = ["argcomplete", "attrs (>=19.2)", "hypothesis (>=3.56)", "mock", "pygments (>=2.7.2)", "requests", "setuptools", "xmlschema"]
 
 [[package]]
 name = "pyyaml"
diff --git a/src/pytest_markdown_docs/plugin.py b/src/pytest_markdown_docs/plugin.py
index b1e2109..7e504d1 100644
--- a/src/pytest_markdown_docs/plugin.py
+++ b/src/pytest_markdown_docs/plugin.py
@@ -11,10 +11,10 @@
 from _pytest.pathlib import import_path
 from pytest_markdown_docs import hooks
 
-try:
-    # pytest 8
+
+if pytest.version_tuple >= (8, 0, 0):
     from _pytest.fixtures import TopRequest
-except ImportError:
+else:
     # pytest 7 compatible
     from _pytest.fixtures import FixtureRequest as TopRequest  # type: ignore
 
@@ -204,7 +204,15 @@ def find_object_tests_recursive(
 
 class MarkdownDocstringCodeModule(pytest.Module):
     def collect(self):
-        module = import_path(self.path, root=self.config.rootpath)
+        if pytest.version_tuple >= (8, 1, 0):
+            # consider_namespace_packages is a required keyword argument in pytest 8.1.0
+            module = import_path(
+                self.path, root=self.config.rootpath, consider_namespace_packages=True
+            )
+        else:
+            # but unsupported before 8.1...
+            module = import_path(self.path, root=self.config.rootpath)
+
         for i, (test_code, fixture_names, start_line) in enumerate(
             find_object_tests_recursive(module.__name__, module.__name__, module)
         ):
@@ -236,11 +244,11 @@ def collect(self):
 
 
 def pytest_collect_file(
-    path,
+    file_path,
     parent,
 ):
     if parent.config.option.markdowndocs:
-        pathlib_path = pathlib.Path(str(path))  # pytest 7/8 compat
+        pathlib_path = pathlib.Path(str(file_path))  # pytest 7/8 compat
         if pathlib_path.suffix == ".py":
             return MarkdownDocstringCodeModule.from_parent(parent, path=pathlib_path)
         elif pathlib_path.suffix in (".md", ".mdx", ".svx"):