diff --git a/.github/workflows/development.yaml b/.github/workflows/development.yaml
index 08dd3e19..b4f2363c 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/development.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/development.yaml
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ jobs:
       DOCKER_CLIENT_TIMEOUT: "120"
       COMPOSE_HTTP_TIMEOUT: "120"
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
       - name: Validate version and release notes
         run: |
           DJ_VERSION=$(grep -oP '\d+\.\d+\.\d+' datajoint/version.py)
@@ -64,12 +64,10 @@ jobs:
             mysql_ver: "8.0"
           - py_ver: "3.8"
             mysql_ver: "5.7"
-          - py_ver: "3.7"
-            mysql_ver: "5.7"
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
       - name: Set up Python ${{matrix.py_ver}}
-        uses: actions/setup-python@v4
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v5
         with:
           python-version: ${{matrix.py_ver}}
       - name: Install dependencies
@@ -96,9 +94,9 @@ jobs:
       matrix:
         py_ver: ["3.11"]
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
       - name: Set up Python ${{matrix.py_ver}}
-        uses: actions/setup-python@v4
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v5
         with:
           python-version: ${{matrix.py_ver}}
       - name: Install dependencies
@@ -119,7 +117,7 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v3
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
       - name: Codespell
         uses: codespell-project/actions-codespell@v2
   publish-docs:
@@ -132,7 +130,7 @@ jobs:
       DOCKER_CLIENT_TIMEOUT: "120"
       COMPOSE_HTTP_TIMEOUT: "120"
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
       - name: Deploy docs
         run: |
           export MODE=BUILD
@@ -164,9 +162,9 @@ jobs:
     outputs:
       release_upload_url: ${{steps.create_gh_release.outputs.upload_url}}
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
       - name: Set up Python ${{matrix.py_ver}}
-        uses: actions/setup-python@v4
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v5
         with:
           python-version: ${{matrix.py_ver}}
       - name: Determine package version
diff --git a/.github/workflows/docs.yaml b/.github/workflows/docs.yaml
index cb794b4a..f5a34444 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/docs.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/docs.yaml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ jobs:
       DOCKER_CLIENT_TIMEOUT: "120"
       COMPOSE_HTTP_TIMEOUT: "120"
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
       - name: Deploy docs
         run: |
           export MODE=BUILD
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 2fe4814b..ea721e2b 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 - Changed - Returning success count after the .populate() call - PR [#1050](https://github.com/datajoint/datajoint-python/pull/1050)
 - Fixed - `Autopopulate.populate` excludes `reserved` jobs in addition to `ignore` and `error` jobs 
 - Fixed - Issue [#1159]((https://github.com/datajoint/datajoint-python/pull/1159)  (cascading delete)  - PR [#1160](https://github.com/datajoint/datajoint-python/pull/1160)
+- Changed - Minimum Python version for Datajoint-Python is now 3.8 PR #1163
 - Fixed - `docker compose` commands in CI [#1164](https://github.com/datajoint/datajoint-python/pull/1164)
 
 ### 0.14.1 -- Jun 02, 2023
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index c0e8a99c..65c0c8b6 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ pyparsing
 ipython
 pandas
 tqdm
-networkx<=2.6.3  # until py3.8 is our minimum version
+networkx
 pydot
 minio>=7.0.0
 matplotlib
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index ecf53d97..90426068 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 from os import path
 import sys
 
-min_py_version = (3, 7)
+min_py_version = (3, 8)
 
 if sys.version_info < min_py_version:
     sys.exit(