diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 5683866..71874ac 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ readme = "README.md"
 dependencies = [
     "autoBIGS-engine"
 ]
-requires-python = ">=3.11"
+requires-python = ">=3.12"
 description = "A CLI tool to rapidly fetch fetch MLST profiles given sequences for various diseases."
 
 [project.urls]