diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
index 233ccc67..b649ca12 100644
--- a/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ repos:
     hooks:
       - id: isort
   - repo: https://github.com/psf/black
-    rev: 21.12b0
+    rev: 22.1.0
     hooks:
       - id: black
   - repo: https://github.com/pycqa/flake8
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index c512d739..bee54e98 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ setup(
         os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "README.md")
     ).read(),
     long_description_content_type="text/markdown",
-    author=u"Emil Stenström",
+    author="Emil Stenström",
     author_email="emil@emilstenstrom.se",
     url="https://github.com/EmilStenstrom/django-components/",
     install_requires=["Django>=2.2"],