diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index e91f57f..89a9a00 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ dependencies = [
     "biopython==1.85",
     "aiohttp[speedups]==3.11.*",
 ]
-requires-python = ">=3.11"
+requires-python = ">=3.12"
 description = "A library to rapidly fetch fetch MLST profiles given sequences for various diseases."
 
 [project.urls]