diff --git a/.github/workflows/test.yml b/.github/workflows/test.yml
index 7b932f9..fc47f23 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/test.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/test.yml
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        python-version: ["3.7", "3.8", "3.9", "3.10", "3.11"]
+        python-version: ["3.8", "3.9", "3.10", "3.11"]
 
     container: python:${{ matrix.python-version }}
 
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Set up Python
         uses: actions/setup-python@v4
         with:
-          python-version: "3.10"
+          python-version: "3.11"
       - uses: actions/checkout@v3
       - name: Install dependencies
         run: |
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index ad21093..8d71368 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 name = "scramp"
 description = "An implementation of the SCRAM protocol."
 readme = "README.rst"
-requires-python = ">=3.7"
+requires-python = ">=3.8"
 keywords = ["SCRAM", "authentication", "SASL"]
 license = {text = "MIT No Attribution"}
 classifiers = [
@@ -18,10 +18,10 @@ classifiers = [
     "License :: OSI Approved :: MIT No Attribution License (MIT-0)",
     "Programming Language :: Python",
     "Programming Language :: Python :: 3",
-    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.7",
     "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8",
     "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9",
     "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11",
     "Programming Language :: Python :: Implementation",
     "Programming Language :: Python :: Implementation :: CPython",
     "Programming Language :: Python :: Implementation :: PyPy",
@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@ classifiers = [
 ]
 dependencies = [
     "asn1crypto >= 1.5.1",
-    'importlib-metadata >= 1.0 ; python_version < "3.8"',
 ]
 dynamic = ["version"]
 
diff --git a/scramp/__init__.py b/scramp/__init__.py
index e7a71b0..8bfbcd2 100644
--- a/scramp/__init__.py
+++ b/scramp/__init__.py
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+from importlib.metadata import version
+
 from scramp.core import (
     ScramClient,
     ScramException,
@@ -7,9 +9,4 @@
 
 __all__ = [ScramClient, ScramMechanism, ScramException, make_channel_binding]
 
-try:
-    from importlib.metadata import version
-except ImportError:
-    from importlib_metadata import version
-
 __version__ = version("scramp")