diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 6c44b8abd..3d2cc68fe 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -11,14 +11,14 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        python-version: [py38]
+        python-version: ['3.8', '3.12']
         django-version: [django42]
 
     steps:
     - uses: actions/checkout@v2
     - uses: actions/setup-python@v2
       with:
-        python-version: '3.8'
+        python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
         architecture: x64
     - name: Start container
       run: |
@@ -27,5 +27,5 @@ jobs:
       run: |
         docker exec -e TOXENV=${{ matrix.python-version }}-${{ matrix.django-version }} -u root enterprise.catalog.app /edx/app/enterprise_catalog/enterprise_catalog/validate.sh
     - name: Code Coverage
-      if: matrix.python-version == 'py38' && matrix.django-version=='django42'
+      if: matrix.python-version == '3.8' && matrix.django-version=='django42'
       uses: codecov/codecov-action@v1
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 159c37a9e..20e04564d 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -99,9 +99,8 @@ html_coverage: ## generate and view HTML coverage report
 upgrade: export CUSTOM_COMPILE_COMMAND=make upgrade
 upgrade: $(COMMON_CONSTRAINTS_TXT) piptools ## update the requirements/*.txt files with the latest packages satisfying requirements/*.in
 	# Make sure to compile files after any other files they include!
-	sed 's/Django<4.0//g' requirements/common_constraints.txt > requirements/common_constraints.tmp
+	sed 's/django-simple-history==3.0.0//g' requirements/common_constraints.txt > requirements/common_constraints.tmp
 	mv requirements/common_constraints.tmp requirements/common_constraints.txt
-	sed -i 's/django-simple-history==//g' requirements/common_constraints.txt
 	pip-compile --allow-unsafe --rebuild --upgrade -o requirements/pip.txt requirements/pip.in
 	pip-compile --upgrade -o requirements/pip-tools.txt requirements/pip-tools.in
 	pip install -qr requirements/pip.txt
diff --git a/requirements/common_constraints.txt b/requirements/common_constraints.txt
index b5d2098db..fc5c765e7 100644
--- a/requirements/common_constraints.txt
+++ b/requirements/common_constraints.txt
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ Django<5.0
 elasticsearch<7.14.0
 
 # django-simple-history>3.0.0 adds indexing and causes a lot of migrations to be affected
-3.0.0
+
 
 # opentelemetry requires version 6.x at the moment:
 # https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python/issues/3570
diff --git a/requirements/constraints.txt b/requirements/constraints.txt
index 822279be8..6878afae9 100644
--- a/requirements/constraints.txt
+++ b/requirements/constraints.txt
@@ -40,3 +40,6 @@ astroid<2.12
 
 # To avoid any breaking changes
 openai<=1.13.3
+
+# For python greater than or equal to 3.9 backports.zoneinfo causing failures
+backports.zoneinfo; python_version<'3.9'
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index 90a45394a..848894862 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [tox]
 skipsdist = true
-envlist = {py38}-django{42}
+envlist = py{38, 312}-django{42}
 
 [testenv]
 deps =
@@ -8,4 +8,3 @@ deps =
     -r{toxinidir}/requirements/test.txt
 commands =
     {posargs:pytest}
-