diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index a1d163d..5206f28 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 * Added support for Python 3.14 and free-threaded Python.
 * In order to support free-threaded Python, move the burden of thread safety onto users.
   Specifically: you must not mutate byte arrays and the like that are passed to `BytesAhoCorasick` APIs while those APIs are running.
+* Dropped support for Python 3.9.
 
 ## 0.22.2
 
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 9028e8e..1f90c74 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ build-backend = "maturin"
 
 [project]
 name = "ahocorasick_rs"
-requires-python = ">=3.8"
+requires-python = ">=3.10"
 dependencies = [
     # Technically not necessary to run, only needed for type checking...
     "typing_extensions >= 4.6.0 ; python_version < '3.12'"