diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
index 52049e967f..986b63f875 100644
--- a/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ repos:
           - tomli
 
   - repo: https://github.com/commitizen-tools/commitizen
-    rev: v4.0.0 # automatically updated by Commitizen
+    rev: v4.1.0 # automatically updated by Commitizen
     hooks:
       - id: commitizen
       - id: commitizen-branch
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index c6556ab016..858f7d7181 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+## v4.1.0 (2024-12-06)
+
+### Feat
+
+- **commit**: allow '-- --allow-empty' to create empty commits
+
 ## v4.0.0 (2024-11-26)
 
 ## v3.31.0 (2024-11-16)
diff --git a/commitizen/__version__.py b/commitizen/__version__.py
index ce1305bf4e..7039708762 100644
--- a/commitizen/__version__.py
+++ b/commitizen/__version__.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = "4.0.0"
+__version__ = "4.1.0"
diff --git a/commitizen/changelog.py b/commitizen/changelog.py
index 32a66c47eb..7f300354b6 100644
--- a/commitizen/changelog.py
+++ b/commitizen/changelog.py
@@ -29,9 +29,10 @@
 
 import re
 from collections import OrderedDict, defaultdict
+from collections.abc import Iterable
 from dataclasses import dataclass
 from datetime import date
-from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Iterable
+from typing import TYPE_CHECKING
 
 from jinja2 import (
     BaseLoader,
diff --git a/commitizen/changelog_formats/restructuredtext.py b/commitizen/changelog_formats/restructuredtext.py
index 09d032400c..8bcf9a4a4f 100644
--- a/commitizen/changelog_formats/restructuredtext.py
+++ b/commitizen/changelog_formats/restructuredtext.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 import re
 import sys
 from itertools import zip_longest
-from typing import IO, TYPE_CHECKING, Any, Tuple, Union
+from typing import IO, TYPE_CHECKING, Any, Union
 
 from commitizen.changelog import Metadata
 
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 
 
 # Can't use `|` operator and native type because of https://bugs.python.org/issue42233 only fixed in 3.10
-TitleKind: TypeAlias = Union[str, Tuple[str, str]]
+TitleKind: TypeAlias = Union[str, tuple[str, str]]
 
 
 class RestructuredText(BaseFormat):
diff --git a/commitizen/cli.py b/commitizen/cli.py
index 1e0b1c6276..2ee7d41eba 100644
--- a/commitizen/cli.py
+++ b/commitizen/cli.py
@@ -3,11 +3,12 @@
 import argparse
 import logging
 import sys
+from collections.abc import Sequence
 from copy import deepcopy
 from functools import partial
 from pathlib import Path
 from types import TracebackType
-from typing import Any, Sequence
+from typing import Any
 
 import argcomplete
 from decli import cli
diff --git a/commitizen/commands/commit.py b/commitizen/commands/commit.py
index 9b13a020b6..abecb3b3ca 100644
--- a/commitizen/commands/commit.py
+++ b/commitizen/commands/commit.py
@@ -93,6 +93,10 @@ def manual_edit(self, message: str) -> str:
         return message
 
     def __call__(self):
+        extra_args: str = self.arguments.get("extra_cli_args", "")
+
+        allow_empty: bool = "--allow-empty" in extra_args
+
         dry_run: bool = self.arguments.get("dry_run")
         write_message_to_file: bool = self.arguments.get("write_message_to_file")
         manual_edit: bool = self.arguments.get("edit")
@@ -101,7 +105,7 @@ def __call__(self):
         if is_all:
             c = git.add("-u")
 
-        if git.is_staging_clean() and not dry_run:
+        if git.is_staging_clean() and not (dry_run or allow_empty):
             raise NothingToCommitError("No files added to staging!")
 
         if write_message_to_file is not None and write_message_to_file.is_dir():
@@ -137,8 +141,6 @@ def __call__(self):
         always_signoff: bool = self.config.settings["always_signoff"]
         signoff: bool = self.arguments.get("signoff")
 
-        extra_args = self.arguments.get("extra_cli_args", "")
-
         if signoff:
             out.warn(
                 "signoff mechanic is deprecated, please use `cz commit -- -s` instead."
diff --git a/commitizen/cz/__init__.py b/commitizen/cz/__init__.py
index 04603a9ec4..cb17fe32cd 100644
--- a/commitizen/cz/__init__.py
+++ b/commitizen/cz/__init__.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 import pkgutil
 import sys
 import warnings
-from typing import Iterable
+from collections.abc import Iterable
 
 if sys.version_info >= (3, 10):
     from importlib import metadata
diff --git a/commitizen/cz/base.py b/commitizen/cz/base.py
index 70929e2f83..43455a74ca 100644
--- a/commitizen/cz/base.py
+++ b/commitizen/cz/base.py
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 from __future__ import annotations
 
 from abc import ABCMeta, abstractmethod
-from typing import Any, Callable, Iterable, Protocol
+from collections.abc import Iterable
+from typing import Any, Callable, Protocol
 
 from jinja2 import BaseLoader, PackageLoader
 from prompt_toolkit.styles import Style, merge_styles
diff --git a/commitizen/defaults.py b/commitizen/defaults.py
index 996c243196..d776e38d7a 100644
--- a/commitizen/defaults.py
+++ b/commitizen/defaults.py
@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@
 
 import pathlib
 from collections import OrderedDict
-from typing import Any, Iterable, MutableMapping, TypedDict
+from collections.abc import Iterable, MutableMapping
+from typing import Any, TypedDict
 
 # Type
 Questions = Iterable[MutableMapping[str, Any]]
diff --git a/commitizen/version_schemes.py b/commitizen/version_schemes.py
index 346287a065..554864e3bf 100644
--- a/commitizen/version_schemes.py
+++ b/commitizen/version_schemes.py
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@
     ClassVar,
     Literal,
     Protocol,
-    Type,
     cast,
     runtime_checkable,
 )
@@ -150,7 +149,7 @@ def bump(
 
 # With PEP 440 and SemVer semantic, Scheme is the type, Version is an instance
 Version: TypeAlias = VersionProtocol
-VersionScheme: TypeAlias = Type[VersionProtocol]
+VersionScheme: TypeAlias = type[VersionProtocol]
 
 
 class BaseVersion(_BaseVersion):
diff --git a/poetry.lock b/poetry.lock
index ad3607415b..973f01720b 100644
--- a/poetry.lock
+++ b/poetry.lock
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# This file is automatically @generated by Poetry 1.8.4 and should not be changed by hand.
+# This file is automatically @generated by Poetry 1.8.3 and should not be changed by hand.
 
 [[package]]
 name = "argcomplete"
@@ -756,13 +756,13 @@ pyyaml = ">=5.1"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "mkdocs-material"
-version = "9.5.46"
+version = "9.5.47"
 description = "Documentation that simply works"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.8"
 files = [
-    {file = "mkdocs_material-9.5.46-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:98f0a2039c62e551a68aad0791a8d41324ff90c03a6e6cea381a384b84908b83"},
-    {file = "mkdocs_material-9.5.46.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:ae2043f4238e572f9a40e0b577f50400d6fc31e2fef8ea141800aebf3bd273d7"},
+    {file = "mkdocs_material-9.5.47-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:53fb9c9624e7865da6ec807d116cd7be24b3cb36ab31b1d1d1a9af58c56009a2"},
+    {file = "mkdocs_material-9.5.47.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:fc3b7a8e00ad896660bd3a5cc12ca0cb28bdc2bcbe2a946b5714c23ac91b0ede"},
 ]
 
 [package.dependencies]
@@ -968,13 +968,13 @@ testing = ["pytest", "pytest-benchmark"]
 
 [[package]]
 name = "pre-commit"
-version = "3.8.0"
+version = "4.0.1"
 description = "A framework for managing and maintaining multi-language pre-commit hooks."
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.9"
 files = [
-    {file = "pre_commit-3.8.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:9a90a53bf82fdd8778d58085faf8d83df56e40dfe18f45b19446e26bf1b3a63f"},
-    {file = "pre_commit-3.8.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:8bb6494d4a20423842e198980c9ecf9f96607a07ea29549e180eef9ae80fe7af"},
+    {file = "pre_commit-4.0.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:efde913840816312445dc98787724647c65473daefe420785f885e8ed9a06878"},
+    {file = "pre_commit-4.0.1.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:80905ac375958c0444c65e9cebebd948b3cdb518f335a091a670a89d652139d2"},
 ]
 
 [package.dependencies]
@@ -1057,13 +1057,13 @@ extra = ["pygments (>=2.12)"]
 
 [[package]]
 name = "pytest"
-version = "8.3.3"
+version = "8.3.4"
 description = "pytest: simple powerful testing with Python"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.8"
 files = [
-    {file = "pytest-8.3.3-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:a6853c7375b2663155079443d2e45de913a911a11d669df02a50814944db57b2"},
-    {file = "pytest-8.3.3.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:70b98107bd648308a7952b06e6ca9a50bc660be218d53c257cc1fc94fda10181"},
+    {file = "pytest-8.3.4-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:50e16d954148559c9a74109af1eaf0c945ba2d8f30f0a3d3335edde19788b6f6"},
+    {file = "pytest-8.3.4.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:965370d062bce11e73868e0335abac31b4d3de0e82f4007408d242b4f8610761"},
 ]
 
 [package.dependencies]
@@ -1079,17 +1079,17 @@ dev = ["argcomplete", "attrs (>=19.2)", "hypothesis (>=3.56)", "mock", "pygments
 
 [[package]]
 name = "pytest-cov"
-version = "5.0.0"
+version = "6.0.0"
 description = "Pytest plugin for measuring coverage."
 optional = false
-python-versions = ">=3.8"
+python-versions = ">=3.9"
 files = [
-    {file = "pytest-cov-5.0.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:5837b58e9f6ebd335b0f8060eecce69b662415b16dc503883a02f45dfeb14857"},
-    {file = "pytest_cov-5.0.0-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:4f0764a1219df53214206bf1feea4633c3b558a2925c8b59f144f682861ce652"},
+    {file = "pytest-cov-6.0.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:fde0b595ca248bb8e2d76f020b465f3b107c9632e6a1d1705f17834c89dcadc0"},
+    {file = "pytest_cov-6.0.0-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:eee6f1b9e61008bd34975a4d5bab25801eb31898b032dd55addc93e96fcaaa35"},
 ]
 
 [package.dependencies]
-coverage = {version = ">=5.2.1", extras = ["toml"]}
+coverage = {version = ">=7.5", extras = ["toml"]}
 pytest = ">=4.6"
 
 [package.extras]
@@ -1432,29 +1432,29 @@ jupyter = ["ipywidgets (>=7.5.1,<9)"]
 
 [[package]]
 name = "ruff"
-version = "0.7.4"
+version = "0.8.2"
 description = "An extremely fast Python linter and code formatter, written in Rust."
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.7"
 files = [
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+    {file = "ruff-0.8.2-py3-none-win32.whl", hash = "sha256:ac42caaa0411d6a7d9594363294416e0e48fc1279e1b0e948391695db2b3d5b1"},
+    {file = "ruff-0.8.2-py3-none-win_amd64.whl", hash = "sha256:2aae99ec70abf43372612a838d97bfe77d45146254568d94926e8ed5bbb409ea"},
+    {file = "ruff-0.8.2-py3-none-win_arm64.whl", hash = "sha256:fb88e2a506b70cfbc2de6fae6681c4f944f7dd5f2fe87233a7233d888bad73e8"},
+    {file = "ruff-0.8.2.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:b84f4f414dda8ac7f75075c1fa0b905ac0ff25361f42e6d5da681a465e0f78e5"},
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -1779,4 +1779,4 @@ type = ["pytest-mypy"]
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "2.0"
 python-versions = ">=3.9"
-content-hash = "a26dd45789ef8d0cc79465fe620060d29bde139d45a70885a80c413dd668dc81"
+content-hash = "36ac305c62f5139da82126a1b3bc71f86320af1abab5c473b3c0d21c81e214bd"
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index b15581952e..e1b884f479 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,15 +1,15 @@
 [tool.commitizen]
-version = "4.0.0"
+version = "4.1.0"
 tag_format = "v$version"
 version_files = [
-  "pyproject.toml:version",
-  "commitizen/__version__.py",
-  ".pre-commit-config.yaml:rev:.+Commitizen",
+    "pyproject.toml:version",
+    "commitizen/__version__.py",
+    ".pre-commit-config.yaml:rev:.+Commitizen",
 ]
 
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "commitizen"
-version = "4.0.0"
+version = "4.1.0"
 description = "Python commitizen client tool"
 authors = ["Santiago Fraire <santiwilly@gmail.com>"]
 license = "MIT"
@@ -32,10 +32,7 @@ classifiers = [
     "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.13",
     "Programming Language :: Python :: Implementation :: CPython",
 ]
-packages = [
-  {include = "commitizen"},
-  {include = "commitizen/py.typed"},
-]
+packages = [{ include = "commitizen" }, { include = "commitizen/py.typed" }]
 
 [tool.poetry.dependencies]
 python = ">=3.9"
@@ -51,21 +48,21 @@ argcomplete = ">=1.12.1,<3.6"
 typing-extensions = { version = "^4.0.1", python = "<3.11" }
 charset-normalizer = ">=2.1.0,<4"
 # Use the Python 3.11 and 3.12 compatible API: https://github.com/python/importlib_metadata#compatibility
-importlib_metadata = { version = ">=8.0.0,<9", python = "<3.10"}
+importlib_metadata = { version = ">=8.0.0,<9", python = "<3.10" }
 
 [tool.poetry.group.dev.dependencies]
 # dev tool
 ipython = "^8.0"
 # test
 pytest = ">=7.2,<9.0"
-pytest-cov = ">=4,<6"
+pytest-cov = ">=4,<7"
 pytest-mock = "^3.10"
 pytest-regressions = "^2.4.0"
 pytest-freezer = "^0.4.6"
 pytest-xdist = "^3.1.0"
 # linter
-ruff = ">=0.5.0,<0.8.0"
-pre-commit = ">=2.18,<4.0"
+ruff = ">=0.5.0,<0.9.0"
+pre-commit = ">=2.18,<5.0"
 mypy = "^1.4"
 types-PyYAML = ">=5.4.3,<7.0.0"
 types-termcolor = "^0.1.1"
@@ -108,33 +105,33 @@ semver = "commitizen.version_schemes:SemVer"
 semver2 = "commitizen.version_schemes:SemVer2"
 
 [tool.coverage]
-    [tool.coverage.report]
-    show_missing = true
-    exclude_lines = [
-        # Have to re-enable the standard pragma
-        'pragma: no cover',
-
-        # Don't complain about missing debug-only code:
-        'def __repr__',
-        'if self\.debug',
-
-        # Don't complain if tests don't hit defensive assertion code:
-        'raise AssertionError',
-        'raise NotImplementedError',
-
-        # Don't complain if non-runnable code isn't run:
-        'if 0:',
-        'if __name__ == .__main__.:',
-        'if TYPE_CHECKING:',
-    ]
-    omit = [
-        'env/*',
-        'venv/*',
-        '.venv/*',
-        '*/virtualenv/*',
-        '*/virtualenvs/*',
-        '*/tests/*',
-    ]
+[tool.coverage.report]
+show_missing = true
+exclude_lines = [
+    # Have to re-enable the standard pragma
+    'pragma: no cover',
+
+    # Don't complain about missing debug-only code:
+    'def __repr__',
+    'if self\.debug',
+
+    # Don't complain if tests don't hit defensive assertion code:
+    'raise AssertionError',
+    'raise NotImplementedError',
+
+    # Don't complain if non-runnable code isn't run:
+    'if 0:',
+    'if __name__ == .__main__.:',
+    'if TYPE_CHECKING:',
+]
+omit = [
+    'env/*',
+    'venv/*',
+    '.venv/*',
+    '*/virtualenv/*',
+    '*/virtualenvs/*',
+    '*/tests/*',
+]
 
 [build-system]
 requires = ["poetry_core>=1.0.0"]
@@ -157,11 +154,7 @@ select = [
     # isort
     "I",
 ]
-ignore = [
-    "E501",
-    "D1",
-    "D415"
-]
+ignore = ["E501", "D1", "D415"]
 
 [tool.ruff.lint.isort]
 known-first-party = ["commitizen", "tests"]
@@ -179,7 +172,7 @@ warn_unused_ignores = true
 warn_unused_configs = true
 
 [[tool.mypy.overrides]]
-module = "py.*"  # Legacy pytest dependencies
+module = "py.*"               # Legacy pytest dependencies
 ignore_missing_imports = true
 
 [tool.codespell]
diff --git a/tests/commands/test_commit_command.py b/tests/commands/test_commit_command.py
index 85959abe33..55751f6902 100644
--- a/tests/commands/test_commit_command.py
+++ b/tests/commands/test_commit_command.py
@@ -324,6 +324,55 @@ def test_commit_when_nothing_to_commit(config, mocker: MockFixture):
     assert "No files added to staging!" in str(excinfo.value)
 
 
+@pytest.mark.usefixtures("staging_is_clean")
+def test_commit_with_allow_empty(config, mocker: MockFixture):
+    prompt_mock = mocker.patch("questionary.prompt")
+    prompt_mock.return_value = {
+        "prefix": "feat",
+        "subject": "user created",
+        "scope": "",
+        "is_breaking_change": False,
+        "body": "closes #21",
+        "footer": "",
+    }
+
+    commit_mock = mocker.patch("commitizen.git.commit")
+    commit_mock.return_value = cmd.Command("success", "", b"", b"", 0)
+    success_mock = mocker.patch("commitizen.out.success")
+
+    commands.Commit(config, {"extra_cli_args": "--allow-empty"})()
+
+    commit_mock.assert_called_with(
+        "feat: user created\n\ncloses #21", args="--allow-empty"
+    )
+    success_mock.assert_called_once()
+
+
+@pytest.mark.usefixtures("staging_is_clean")
+def test_commit_with_signoff_and_allow_empty(config, mocker: MockFixture):
+    prompt_mock = mocker.patch("questionary.prompt")
+    prompt_mock.return_value = {
+        "prefix": "feat",
+        "subject": "user created",
+        "scope": "",
+        "is_breaking_change": False,
+        "body": "closes #21",
+        "footer": "",
+    }
+
+    commit_mock = mocker.patch("commitizen.git.commit")
+    commit_mock.return_value = cmd.Command("success", "", b"", b"", 0)
+    success_mock = mocker.patch("commitizen.out.success")
+
+    config.settings["always_signoff"] = True
+    commands.Commit(config, {"extra_cli_args": "--allow-empty"})()
+
+    commit_mock.assert_called_with(
+        "feat: user created\n\ncloses #21", args="--allow-empty -s"
+    )
+    success_mock.assert_called_once()
+
+
 @pytest.mark.usefixtures("staging_is_clean")
 def test_commit_when_customized_expected_raised(config, mocker: MockFixture, capsys):
     _err = ValueError()
diff --git a/tests/conftest.py b/tests/conftest.py
index 95f3df3b20..1e6bc15f0c 100644
--- a/tests/conftest.py
+++ b/tests/conftest.py
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
 import os
 import re
 import tempfile
+from collections.abc import Iterator
 from pathlib import Path
-from typing import Iterator
 
 import pytest
 from pytest_mock import MockerFixture
diff --git a/tests/providers/conftest.py b/tests/providers/conftest.py
index b4432ca524..f73cdb72a5 100644
--- a/tests/providers/conftest.py
+++ b/tests/providers/conftest.py
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 from __future__ import annotations
 
 import os
+from collections.abc import Iterator
 from pathlib import Path
-from typing import Iterator
 
 import pytest