diff --git a/.github/workflows/test.yml b/.github/workflows/test.yml
index dee5873..e890e5e 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/test.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/test.yml
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ jobs:
     needs: [fast-tests-python]
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        python-version: ['3.8', '3.9', '3.10', '3.11', '3.12']
+        python-version: ['3.9', '3.10', '3.11', '3.12']
         os: [ubuntu-latest, macos-latest, macos-13, windows-latest]  # at the moment macos-latest=macos-14 is exclusive M1 chip,  macos-13 is intel
       fail-fast: false
     name: Test wheel on ${{ matrix.os }} and Python ${{ matrix.python-version }}
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 110083a..530469c 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ authors = [
 keywords = ["codebleu", "code", "bleu", "nlp", "natural language processing", "programming", "evaluate", "evaluation", "code generation", "metrics"]
 dynamic = ["version"]
 
-requires-python = ">=3.8"
+requires-python = ">=3.9"
 classifiers = [
     "Development Status :: 4 - Beta",
     "Programming Language :: Python",