diff --git a/.github/workflows/build.yml b/.github/workflows/build.yml
index 7865ff2..fbb4bc5 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build.yml
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       matrix:
         os: [ubuntu-latest, windows-latest, macos-latest]
-        python: ['3.7', '3.8', '3.9', '3.10', '3.11', 'pypy3.9']
+        python: ['3.8', '3.9', '3.10', '3.11', '3.12', 'pypy3.9']
         architecture: [x86, x64]
         exclude:
           - os: ubuntu-latest
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ jobs:
           poetry install
 
       - name: Run pre-commit
-        if: "!startsWith(matrix.python, 'pypy') && !startsWith(matrix.python, '3.7')"
+        if: "!startsWith(matrix.python, 'pypy')"
         run: |
           python -m pip install pre-commit
           pre-commit run --all-files --verbose
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ jobs:
         with:
           name: python-yubihsm-sdist
           path: dist
-  
+
   docs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     name: Build sphinx documentation
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ jobs:
           python -m pip install --upgrade pip
           python -m pip install poetry
           poetry install -E http -E usb
-      
+
       - name: Build sphinx documentation
         run: poetry run make -C docs/ html
 
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 05abd21..b309b85 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 * Version 3.0.0 (unreleased)
  ** NOTE: Backwards incompatible release.
- ** Dropped Python 2 support, new minimum requirement: Python 3.7.
+ ** Dropped Python 2 support, new minimum requirement: Python 3.8.
  ** Added type hints.
  ** Bumped minimum supported Cryptography version to 2.6.
  ** Dropped yubihsm.eddsa package, in favor of EdDSA support in Cryptography.
diff --git a/README.adoc b/README.adoc
index b4fa368..ca03d53 100644
--- a/README.adoc
+++ b/README.adoc
@@ -2,9 +2,7 @@
 
 Python library and tests for the YubiHSM 2.
 
-The current version (2.1) supports Python 2.7 and later.
-
-NOTE: The next major version (3.x) will require Python 3.7 or later.
+The current version (3.0) supports Python 3.8 and later.
 
 Communicates with the YubiHSM 2 connector daemon, which must already be running.
 It can also communicate directly with the YubiHSM 2 via USB (requires libusb).
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index f8b3317..5d05145 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ include = [
 ]
 
 [tool.poetry.dependencies]
-python = "^3.7"
+python = "^3.8"
 cryptography = ">=2.6"
 requests = {version = "^2.0", optional = true}
 pyusb = {version = "^1.0", optional = true}