diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
index 6662d7e9b5f..d18fe4b8303 100644
--- a/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ repos:
           - usort == 1.0.2
 
   - repo: https://github.com/PyCQA/flake8
-    rev: 5.0.4
+    rev: 6.0.0
     hooks:
       - id: flake8
         args: [--config=setup.cfg]
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index 5bca030976d..561f5ea7013 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ python setup.py develop
 # MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.9 CC=clang CXX=clang++ python setup.py develop
 # for C++ debugging, please use DEBUG=1
 # DEBUG=1 python setup.py develop
-pip install flake8 typing mypy pytest pytest-mock scipy
+pip install mypy pytest pytest-mock scipy
 ```
 You may also have to install `libpng-dev` and `libjpeg-turbo8-dev` libraries:
 ```bash
@@ -73,12 +73,11 @@ If you would like to contribute a new model, please see [here](#New-architecture
 
 If you would like to contribute a new dataset, please see [here](#New-dataset). 
 
-### Code formatting and typing
+### Code formatting and linting
 
 #### Formatting
 
-The torchvision code is formatted by [black](https://black.readthedocs.io/en/stable/),
-and checked against pep8 compliance with [flake8](https://flake8.pycqa.org/en/latest/).
+The torchvision code is formatted by [black](https://black.readthedocs.io/en/stable/).
 Instead of relying directly on `black` however, we rely on
 [ufmt](https://github.com/omnilib/ufmt), for compatibility reasons with Facebook
 internal infrastructure.
@@ -97,11 +96,18 @@ files that were edited in your PR with e.g.:
 ufmt format `git diff main --name-only`
 ```
 
-Similarly, you can check for `flake8` errors with `flake8 torchvision`, although
-they should be fairly rare considering that most of the errors are automatically
-taken care of by `ufmt` already.
+#### Linting
 
-##### Pre-commit hooks
+The codebase's pep8 compliance is checked with [flake8](https://flake8.pycqa.org/en/latest/).
+
+To check for flake8 errors:
+1. Install `flake8` with `pip install flake8==6.0.0'
+2. Run `flake8 torchvision`
+
+Errors should be fairly rare considering that most are automatically
+taken care of by `ufmt`.
+
+#### Pre-commit hooks
 
 For convenience and **purely optionally**, you can rely on [pre-commit
 hooks](https://pre-commit.com/) which will run both `ufmt` and `flake8` prior to
@@ -117,7 +123,7 @@ more and improve your workflow. You'll see for example that `pre-commit run
 commit anything, and that the `--no-verify` flag can be added to `git commit` to
 temporarily deactivate the hooks.
 
-#### Type annotations
+### Type annotations
 
 The codebase has type annotations, please make sure to add type hints if required. We use `mypy` tool for type checking:
 ```bash
diff --git a/test/test_ops.py b/test/test_ops.py
index 3f9400257ba..4fd7ad14bb5 100644
--- a/test/test_ops.py
+++ b/test/test_ops.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 from abc import ABC, abstractmethod
 from functools import lru_cache
 from itertools import product
-from typing import Callable, List, Tuple
+from typing import Callable, List
 
 import numpy as np
 import pytest
diff --git a/torchvision/models/detection/generalized_rcnn.py b/torchvision/models/detection/generalized_rcnn.py
index b481265077f..46b9da1a827 100644
--- a/torchvision/models/detection/generalized_rcnn.py
+++ b/torchvision/models/detection/generalized_rcnn.py
@@ -36,15 +36,17 @@ def __init__(self, backbone: nn.Module, rpn: nn.Module, roi_heads: nn.Module, tr
         self._has_warned = False
 
     @torch.jit.unused
-    def eager_outputs(self, losses, detections):
-        # type: (Dict[str, Tensor], List[Dict[str, Tensor]]) -> Union[Dict[str, Tensor], List[Dict[str, Tensor]]]
+    def eager_outputs(
+        self, losses: Dict[str, Tensor], detections: List[Dict[str, Tensor]]
+    ) -> Union[Dict[str, Tensor], List[Dict[str, Tensor]]]:
         if self.training:
             return losses
 
         return detections
 
-    def forward(self, images, targets=None):
-        # type: (List[Tensor], Optional[List[Dict[str, Tensor]]]) -> Tuple[Dict[str, Tensor], List[Dict[str, Tensor]]]
+    def forward(
+        self, images: List[Tensor], targets: Optional[List[Dict[str, Tensor]]] = None
+    ) -> Tuple[Dict[str, Tensor], List[Dict[str, Tensor]]]:
         """
         Args:
             images (list[Tensor]): images to be processed
diff --git a/torchvision/models/detection/roi_heads.py b/torchvision/models/detection/roi_heads.py
index 51b210cb6f3..f6ecd2a8a61 100644
--- a/torchvision/models/detection/roi_heads.py
+++ b/torchvision/models/detection/roi_heads.py
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
-from typing import Dict, List, Optional, Tuple
+from typing import Dict, List
 
 import torch
 import torch.nn.functional as F
 import torchvision
-from torch import nn, Tensor
+from torch import nn
 from torchvision.ops import boxes as box_ops, roi_align
 
 from . import _utils as det_utils