diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yaml b/.github/workflows/release.yaml
index 7626c93..966ea04 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yaml
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ concurrency:
 
 env:
   PACKAGE_NAME: rs_chardet
-  PYTHON_VERSION: "3.7" # to build abi3 wheels
+  PYTHON_VERSION: "3.8" # to build abi3 wheels
 
 jobs:
   macos:
@@ -132,11 +132,11 @@ jobs:
         with:
           target: ${{ matrix.target }}
           manylinux: auto
-          args: --release -i python3.7 --out dist
+          args: --release -i python3.8 --out dist
           maturin-version: "v0.13.0"
           before-script-linux: |
-            echo $(which python3.7)
-            python3.7 --version
+            echo $(which python3.8)
+            python3.8 --version
       - name: Upload wheels
         uses: actions/upload-artifact@v2
         with:
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 3ea1844..813baac 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ build-backend = "maturin"
 
 [project]
 name = "rs-chardet"
-requires-python = ">=3.7"
+requires-python = ">=3.8"
 repository = "https://github.com/emattiza/rs_chardet"
 authors = [
 	{ name = "Evan Mattiza" }