diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 5abb7e07b..2557790aa 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.1.0/),
 and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
 
+## [0.9.7] - 2024-10-18
+- chore: update tiktoken to support python 3.13
+
 ## [0.9.6] - 2024-10-18
 - fix: update summarizer_exchange model to use default model from input exchange (#139)
 - feat: Add synopisis approach for the core goose loop (#166)
diff --git a/packages/exchange/pyproject.toml b/packages/exchange/pyproject.toml
index 768907d46..d842def24 100644
--- a/packages/exchange/pyproject.toml
+++ b/packages/exchange/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [project]
 name = "ai-exchange"
-version = "0.9.6"
+version = "0.9.7"
 description = "a uniform python SDK for message generation with LLMs"
 readme = "README.md"
 requires-python = ">=3.10"
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ dependencies = [
     "griffe>=1.1.1",
     "attrs>=24.2.0",
     "jinja2>=3.1.4",
-    "tiktoken>=0.7.0",
+    "tiktoken>=0.8.0",
     "httpx>=0.27.0",
     "tenacity>=9.0.0",
     "python-dotenv>=1.0.1",
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 256f7acfc..265cca59b 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 [project]
 name = "goose-ai"
 description = "a programming agent that runs on your machine"
-version = "0.9.6"
+version = "0.9.7"
 readme = "README.md"
-requires-python = ">=3.10, <=3.12"
+requires-python = ">=3.10"
 dependencies = [
     "ai-exchange",
     "attrs>=23.2.0",