diff --git a/noq-proto/src/connection/paths.rs b/noq-proto/src/connection/paths.rs
index bc52d1ac1..d4d9b04e7 100644
--- a/noq-proto/src/connection/paths.rs
+++ b/noq-proto/src/connection/paths.rs
@@ -1041,6 +1041,7 @@ pub enum PathStatus {
 
 /// Application events about paths
 #[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq)]
+#[non_exhaustive]
 pub enum PathEvent {
     /// A new path has established connection with the peer.
     Established {
diff --git a/noq/src/connection.rs b/noq/src/connection.rs
index ee7f88b60..fd9bdee3b 100644
--- a/noq/src/connection.rs
+++ b/noq/src/connection.rs
@@ -1672,6 +1672,15 @@ impl State {
                 NatTraversal(update) => {
                     self.nat_traversal_updates.send(update).ok();
                 }
+                _ => {
+                    // PathEvent is #[non_exhaustive].
+                    // It's possible that noq is built against a newer noq-proto version.
+                    // In that case, we need to ignore path events we can't handle yet.
+                    // But for tests, we expect noq and noq-proto to be in sync, so we
+                    // should panic in case we don't actually handle new cases.
+                    #[cfg(test)]
+                    panic!("Unhandled PathEvent variant: {event:?}");
+                }
             }
         }
     }