diff --git a/changelogs/internal/newsfragments/1786.clarification b/changelogs/internal/newsfragments/1786.clarification
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..1810c632
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/internal/newsfragments/1786.clarification
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Upgrade jsonschema and python-jsonpath CI scripts dependencies.
diff --git a/scripts/check-event-schema-examples.py b/scripts/check-event-schema-examples.py
index 9058ff4e..fae129f6 100755
--- a/scripts/check-event-schema-examples.py
+++ b/scripts/check-event-schema-examples.py
@@ -42,6 +42,12 @@ except ImportError as e:
     import_error("jsonschema", "jsonschema", "jsonschema", e)
     raise
 
+try:
+    import referencing
+except ImportError as e:
+    import_error("referencing", "referencing", "referencing", e)
+    raise
+
 try:
     import yaml
 except ImportError as e:
@@ -56,13 +62,14 @@ def check_example_file(examplepath, schemapath):
     with open(schemapath) as f:
         schema = yaml.safe_load(f)
 
+    # $id as a URI with scheme is necessary to make registry resolver work.
     fileurl = "file://" + os.path.abspath(schemapath)
-    schema["id"] = fileurl
-    resolver = jsonschema.RefResolver(fileurl, schema, handlers={"file": helpers.load_file_from_uri})
+    schema["$id"] = fileurl
 
     print ("Checking schema for: %r %r" % (examplepath, schemapath))
     try:
-        validator = jsonschema.Draft202012Validator(schema, resolver)
+        registry = referencing.Registry(retrieve=helpers.load_resource_from_uri)
+        validator = jsonschema.validators.Draft202012Validator(schema, registry=registry)
         validator.validate(example)
     except Exception as e:
         raise ValueError("Error validating JSON schema for %r %r" % (
diff --git a/scripts/check-json-schemas.py b/scripts/check-json-schemas.py
index 06b24106..5e0ceaa3 100755
--- a/scripts/check-json-schemas.py
+++ b/scripts/check-json-schemas.py
@@ -42,6 +42,12 @@ except ImportError as e:
     import_error("jsonschema", "jsonschema", "jsonschema", e)
     raise
 
+try:
+    import referencing
+except ImportError as e:
+    import_error("referencing", "referencing", "referencing", e)
+    raise
+
 try:
     import yaml
 except ImportError as e:
@@ -70,10 +76,12 @@ class SchemaDirReport:
         self.errors += other_report.errors
         
 def check_example(path, schema, example):
-    # URI with scheme is necessary to make RefResolver work.
+    # $id as a URI with scheme is necessary to make registry resolver work.
     fileurl = "file://" + os.path.abspath(path)
-    resolver = jsonschema.RefResolver(fileurl, schema, handlers={"file": helpers.load_file_from_uri})
-    validator = jsonschema.Draft202012Validator(schema, resolver)
+    schema["$id"] = fileurl
+
+    registry = referencing.Registry(retrieve=helpers.load_resource_from_uri)
+    validator = jsonschema.validators.Draft202012Validator(schema, registry=registry)
 
     validator.validate(example)
 
@@ -128,7 +136,7 @@ def check_schema_file(schema_path):
 
     # Check schema is valid.
     try:
-        validator = jsonschema.Draft202012Validator
+        validator = jsonschema.validators.Draft202012Validator
         validator.check_schema(schema)
     except Exception as e:
         print(f"Failed to validate JSON schema: {e}")
diff --git a/scripts/check-openapi-sources.py b/scripts/check-openapi-sources.py
index 7f28d860..4ba0392e 100755
--- a/scripts/check-openapi-sources.py
+++ b/scripts/check-openapi-sources.py
@@ -42,6 +42,12 @@ except ImportError as e:
     import_error("jsonschema", "jsonschema", "jsonschema", e)
     raise
 
+try:
+    import referencing
+except ImportError as e:
+    import_error("referencing", "referencing", "referencing", e)
+    raise
+
 try:
     import yaml
 except ImportError as e:
@@ -50,8 +56,11 @@ except ImportError as e:
 
 
 def check_schema(filepath, example, schema):
-    resolver = jsonschema.RefResolver(filepath, schema, handlers={"file": helpers.load_file_from_uri})
-    validator = jsonschema.Draft202012Validator(schema, resolver)
+    # $id as a URI with scheme is necessary to make registry resolver work.
+    schema["$id"] = filepath
+
+    registry = referencing.Registry(retrieve=helpers.load_resource_from_uri)
+    validator = jsonschema.validators.Draft202012Validator(schema, registry=registry)
     validator.validate(example)
 
 
diff --git a/scripts/helpers.py b/scripts/helpers.py
index c35e8e2a..a30b2831 100755
--- a/scripts/helpers.py
+++ b/scripts/helpers.py
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 import json
 import os
 import os.path
+import referencing
 import urllib.parse
 import yaml
 
@@ -84,4 +85,15 @@ def load_file_from_uri(path):
         else:
             # We have to assume it's YAML because some of the YAML examples
             # do not have file extensions.
-            return yaml.safe_load(f)
\ No newline at end of file
+            return yaml.safe_load(f)
+
+def load_resource_from_uri(path):
+    """Load a JSON or YAML JSON Schema, as a `referencing.Resource` object, from
+    a file:// URI.
+    """
+    contents = load_file_from_uri(path)    
+    resource = referencing.Resource(
+        contents=contents,
+        specification=referencing.jsonschema.DRAFT202012
+    )
+    return resource
diff --git a/scripts/requirements.txt b/scripts/requirements.txt
index 5878b9cc..4d508bf4 100644
--- a/scripts/requirements.txt
+++ b/scripts/requirements.txt
@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
 # no doubt older versions would be fine for many of these but these were
 # current at the time of writing
 
-# we need at least version 4.0.0 for support of JSON Schema Draft 2020-12.
-jsonschema == 4.17.3
+# we need at least version 4.18.0 for support of referencing library.
+jsonschema >= 4.18.0
+referencing >= 0.28.4
 
-python-jsonpath == 0.9.0
+python-jsonpath >= 1.0.0
 attrs >= 23.1.0
 PyYAML >= 3.12
 requests >= 2.18.4