diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 38433fb739..b80ff6a956 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ however, insignificant breaking changes do not guarantee a major version bump, s
 
 - Plugin registry now loads the local file when it failed to fetch from the repo.
 - `registry_plugins_only` is now a configurable option within the bot.
+- discord.py version has been updated to 2.4.0.
 
 ### Removed
 
diff --git a/bot.py b/bot.py
index cf9a323879..8859bba63a 100644
--- a/bot.py
+++ b/bot.py
@@ -1777,7 +1777,7 @@ def main():
         pass
 
     # check discord version
-    discord_version = "2.3.2"
+    discord_version = "2.4.0"
     if discord.__version__ != discord_version:
         logger.warning(
             "discord.py version mismatch detected. Expected %s, received %s",
diff --git a/poetry.lock b/poetry.lock
index 53bd1d6183..b1d68fd85f 100644
--- a/poetry.lock
+++ b/poetry.lock
@@ -583,13 +583,13 @@ files = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "discord-py"
-version = "2.3.2"
+version = "2.4.0"
 description = "A Python wrapper for the Discord API"
 optional = false
-python-versions = ">=3.8.0"
+python-versions = ">=3.8"
 files = [
-    {file = "discord.py-2.3.2-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:9da4679fc3cb10c64b388284700dc998663e0e57328283bbfcfc2525ec5960a6"},
-    {file = "discord.py-2.3.2.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:4560f70f2eddba7e83370ecebd237ac09fbb4980dc66507482b0c0e5b8f76b9c"},
+    {file = "discord.py-2.4.0-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:b8af6711c70f7e62160bfbecb55be699b5cb69d007426759ab8ab06b1bd77d1d"},
+    {file = "discord_py-2.4.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:d07cb2a223a185873a1d0ee78b9faa9597e45b3f6186df21a95cec1e9bcdc9a5"},
 ]
 
 [package.dependencies]
@@ -600,9 +600,9 @@ cchardet = {version = "2.1.7", optional = true, markers = "python_version < \"3.
 orjson = {version = ">=3.5.4", optional = true, markers = "extra == \"speed\""}
 
 [package.extras]
-docs = ["sphinx (==4.4.0)", "sphinxcontrib-trio (==1.1.2)", "sphinxcontrib-websupport", "typing-extensions (>=4.3,<5)"]
+docs = ["sphinx (==4.4.0)", "sphinx-inline-tabs (==2023.4.21)", "sphinxcontrib-applehelp (==1.0.4)", "sphinxcontrib-devhelp (==1.0.2)", "sphinxcontrib-htmlhelp (==2.0.1)", "sphinxcontrib-jsmath (==1.0.1)", "sphinxcontrib-qthelp (==1.0.3)", "sphinxcontrib-serializinghtml (==1.1.5)", "sphinxcontrib-trio (==1.1.2)", "sphinxcontrib-websupport (==1.2.4)", "typing-extensions (>=4.3,<5)"]
 speed = ["Brotli", "aiodns (>=1.1)", "cchardet (==2.1.7)", "orjson (>=3.5.4)"]
-test = ["coverage[toml]", "pytest", "pytest-asyncio", "pytest-cov", "pytest-mock", "typing-extensions (>=4.3,<5)"]
+test = ["coverage[toml]", "pytest", "pytest-asyncio", "pytest-cov", "pytest-mock", "typing-extensions (>=4.3,<5)", "tzdata"]
 voice = ["PyNaCl (>=1.3.0,<1.6)"]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -1642,4 +1642,4 @@ multidict = ">=4.0"
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "2.0"
 python-versions = ">=3.9, <3.12"
-content-hash = "c24bdfb735d20c01402beebae7f66993e2e56109fdc4140dcb31534fa5db8582"
+content-hash = "a2d34ceff483cb78cc770a517ca64addffe58145c20c4178973fe2ac4d8eb046"
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index fc952cffa2..f3279adbe3 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ uvloop = {version = "~=0.17.0", markers = "sys_platform != 'win32'"}
 requests = "~=2.31.0"
 attrs = "~=23.1.0"
 strenum = "^0.4.15"
-"discord.py" = {version = "2.3.2", extras = ["speed"]}
+"discord.py" = {version = "2.4.0", extras = ["speed"]}
 packaging = "^23.2"
 
 [tool.poetry.group.dev.dependencies]