diff --git a/.copier-answers.yml b/.copier-answers.yml
index db7af858..e0576d2a 100644
--- a/.copier-answers.yml
+++ b/.copier-answers.yml
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ project_license: BSD
 project_name: lsdb
 project_organization: astronomy-commons
 python_versions:
-- '3.9'
 - '3.10'
 - '3.11'
 - '3.12'
diff --git a/.github/workflows/asv-main.yml b/.github/workflows/asv-main.yml
index 32c25cf5..477ba594 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/asv-main.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/asv-main.yml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ on:
     branches: [ main ]
 
 env:
-  PYTHON_VERSION: "3.10"
+  PYTHON_VERSION: "3.11"
   ASV_VERSION: "0.6.4"
   WORKING_DIR: ${{github.workspace}}/benchmarks
 
diff --git a/.github/workflows/asv-nightly.yml b/.github/workflows/asv-nightly.yml
index 28b270ae..ad6d1622 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/asv-nightly.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/asv-nightly.yml
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ on:
   workflow_dispatch:
   
 env:
-  PYTHON_VERSION: "3.10"
+  PYTHON_VERSION: "3.11"
   ASV_VERSION: "0.6.4"
   WORKING_DIR: ${{github.workspace}}/benchmarks
   NIGHTLY_HASH_FILE: nightly-hash
diff --git a/.github/workflows/asv-pr.yml b/.github/workflows/asv-pr.yml
index 4499eb9f..e78bf42b 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/asv-pr.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/asv-pr.yml
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ concurrency:
   cancel-in-progress: true
 
 env:
-  PYTHON_VERSION: "3.10"
+  PYTHON_VERSION: "3.11"
   ASV_VERSION: "0.6.4"
   WORKING_DIR: ${{github.workspace}}/benchmarks
   ARTIFACTS_DIR: ${{github.workspace}}/artifacts
diff --git a/.github/workflows/build-documentation.yml b/.github/workflows/build-documentation.yml
index 638e7b6e..e245952c 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build-documentation.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build-documentation.yml
@@ -20,10 +20,10 @@ jobs:
 
     steps:
     - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-    - name: Set up Python 3.10
+    - name: Set up Python 3.11
       uses: actions/setup-python@v5
       with:
-        python-version: '3.10'
+        python-version: '3.11'
     - name: Install dependencies
       run: |
         sudo apt-get update
diff --git a/.github/workflows/pre-commit-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/pre-commit-ci.yml
index f31b3ee6..b2fe4816 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pre-commit-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pre-commit-ci.yml
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ jobs:
     - name: Set up Python
       uses: actions/setup-python@v5
       with:
-        python-version: '3.10'
+        python-version: '3.11'
     - name: Install dependencies
       run: |
         sudo apt-get update
diff --git a/.github/workflows/publish-to-pypi.yml b/.github/workflows/publish-to-pypi.yml
index f7cecc2e..c7714115 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/publish-to-pypi.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/publish-to-pypi.yml
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ jobs:
     - name: Set up Python
       uses: actions/setup-python@v5
       with:
-        python-version: '3.10'
+        python-version: '3.11'
     - name: Install dependencies
       run: |
         python -m pip install --upgrade pip
diff --git a/.github/workflows/smoke-test.yml b/.github/workflows/smoke-test.yml
index e4575efb..48520ba3 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/smoke-test.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/smoke-test.yml
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        python-version: ['3.9', '3.10', '3.11', '3.12']
+        python-version: ['3.10', '3.11', '3.12']
 
     steps:
     - uses: actions/checkout@v4
diff --git a/.github/workflows/testing-and-coverage.yml b/.github/workflows/testing-and-coverage.yml
index 2fadf770..0318b65e 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/testing-and-coverage.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/testing-and-coverage.yml
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        python-version: ['3.9', '3.10', '3.11', '3.12']
+        python-version: ['3.10', '3.11', '3.12']
 
     steps:
     - uses: actions/checkout@v4
diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
index a5d28286..13eab970 100644
--- a/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ repos:
         # supported by your project here, or alternatively use
         # pre-commit's default_language_version, see
         # https://pre-commit.com/#top_level-default_language_version
-        language_version: python3.10
+        language_version: python3.11
     # Analyze type hints and report errors.
   - repo: local
     hooks:
diff --git a/.readthedocs.yml b/.readthedocs.yml
index 10fc41d9..432415d2 100644
--- a/.readthedocs.yml
+++ b/.readthedocs.yml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ version: 2
 build:
   os: ubuntu-22.04
   tools:
-    python: "3.10"
+    python: "3.11"
   apt_packages:
     - graphviz
 
diff --git a/benchmarks/asv.conf.json b/benchmarks/asv.conf.json
index b3fa28c8..d49d3436 100644
--- a/benchmarks/asv.conf.json
+++ b/benchmarks/asv.conf.json
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
     // The Pythons you'd like to test against. If not provided, defaults
     // to the current version of Python used to run `asv`.
     "pythons": [
-        "3.10"
+        "3.11"
     ],
     // The matrix of dependencies to test. Each key is the name of a
     // package (in PyPI) and the values are version numbers.  An empty
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 1011d91e..5d824eed 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ classifiers = [
     "Programming Language :: Python",
 ]
 dynamic = ["version"]
+requires-python = ">=3.10"
 dependencies = [
     # Includes dask[array,dataframe,distributed,diagnostics].
     # dask distributed eases the creation of parallel dask clients.
@@ -85,6 +86,52 @@ target-version = ["py38"]
 profile = "black"
 line_length = 110
 
+[tool.ruff]
+line-length = 110
+target-version = "py310"
+
+[tool.ruff.lint]
+select = [
+    # pycodestyle
+    "E",
+    "W",
+    # Pyflakes
+    "F",
+    # pep8-naming
+    "N",
+    # pyupgrade
+    "UP",
+    # flake8-bugbear
+    "B",
+    # flake8-simplify
+    "SIM",
+    # isort
+    "I",
+    # docstrings
+    "D101",
+    "D102",
+    "D103",
+    "D106",
+    "D206",
+    "D207",
+    "D208",
+    "D300",
+    "D417",
+    "D419",
+    # Numpy v2.0 compatibility
+    "NPY201",
+]
+
+ignore = [
+    "UP006", # Allow non standard library generics in type hints
+    "UP007", # Allow Union in type hints
+    "SIM114", # Allow if with same arms
+    "B028", # Allow default warning level
+    "SIM117", # Allow nested with
+    "UP015", # Allow redundant open parameters
+    "UP028", # Allow yield in for loop
+]
+
 [tool.coverage.run]
 omit=["src/lsdb/_version.py"]
 
diff --git a/src/.pylintrc b/src/.pylintrc
index ee4884ee..338aa263 100644
--- a/src/.pylintrc
+++ b/src/.pylintrc
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ persistent=yes
 
 # Minimum Python version to use for version dependent checks. Will default to
 # the version used to run pylint.
-py-version=3.9
+py-version=3.10
 
 # Discover python modules and packages in the file system subtree.
 recursive=no
diff --git a/tests/.pylintrc b/tests/.pylintrc
index dd25efa9..d8215182 100644
--- a/tests/.pylintrc
+++ b/tests/.pylintrc
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ persistent=yes
 
 # Minimum Python version to use for version dependent checks. Will default to
 # the version used to run pylint.
-py-version=3.9
+py-version=3.10
 
 # Discover python modules and packages in the file system subtree.
 recursive=no