diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 309f9bcdf..86a8aa8ac 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ name = "asv"
 description = "Airspeed Velocity: A simple Python history benchmarking tool"
 readme = { file = "README.rst", content-type = "text/x-rst" }
 license = { text = "BSD-3-Clause" }
-requires-python = ">=3.7"
+requires-python = ">=3.8"
 authors = [
     { name = "Michael Droettboom", email = "mdroe@stsci.edu" },
 ]