diff --git a/.python-version b/.python-version
index d20cc2bf02..e4fba21835 100644
--- a/.python-version
+++ b/.python-version
@@ -1 +1 @@
-3.8.10
+3.12
diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index ab04550773..3d597c6654 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-FROM python:3.8-slim-buster as base
+FROM python:3.12-slim-buster as base
 
 LABEL maintainer="Deep Dev dev@thedeep.io"
 
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index a1aa3cab1d..ddb785e2ee 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ license = "GNU Affero General Public License v3.0"
 package-mode = false
 
 [tool.poetry.dependencies]
-python = "^3.8"
+python = "^3.12"
 beautifulsoup4 = "==4.9.3"
 boto3 = "==1.17.98"
 graphdoc = "0.4.0"