diff --git a/.github/workflows/integration.yml b/.github/workflows/integration.yml
index 93da6a5..bea6bd8 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/integration.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/integration.yml
@@ -7,10 +7,7 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        # We currently only support up to python 3.11 
-        # because aiohttp does not support 3.12 as of yet.
-        # 3.7 because Google Colab uses 3.7 by default.
-        python-version: [3.7, 3.11]
+        python-version: [3.8, 3.12]
 
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
diff --git a/Changelog.md b/Changelog.md
index e72b04e..729e5ab 100644
--- a/Changelog.md
+++ b/Changelog.md
@@ -1,5 +1,12 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## 7.2.0
+
+### Python support
+
+- Minimal supported Python version is now 3.8
+- Dependency `aiohttp` is specified to be at least of version `3.10`.
+  
 ## 7.1.0
 
 - Introduce support for internal feature 'tags'
diff --git a/aleph_alpha_client/version.py b/aleph_alpha_client/version.py
index 9c0736c..9562e45 100644
--- a/aleph_alpha_client/version.py
+++ b/aleph_alpha_client/version.py
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-__version__ = "7.1.0"
+__version__ = "7.2.0"
 MIN_API_VERSION = "1.16.0"
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 5f1c847..2359ae9 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -44,8 +44,8 @@ def version():
     install_requires=[
         "requests >= 2.28",
         "urllib3 >= 1.26",
-        "aiohttp >= 3.8.6",
-        "aiodns >= 3.0.0",
+        "aiohttp >= 3.10.2",
+        "aiodns >= 3.2.0",
         "aiohttp-retry >= 2.8.3",
         "tokenizers >= 0.13.2",
         "typing_extensions >= 4.5.0",