diff --git a/.github/workflows/copilot-setup-steps.yml b/.github/workflows/copilot-setup-steps.yml
index 3645e30378b95..6cb4918de54b2 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/copilot-setup-steps.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/copilot-setup-steps.yml
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Set up Python
         uses: actions/setup-python@v5
         with:
-          python-version: '3.11'
+          python-version: '3.12'
 
       - name: Install Python dependencies
         run: |
diff --git a/.github/workflows/gguf-publish.yml b/.github/workflows/gguf-publish.yml
index 3ca4d30581074..a6ce14662eae3 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/gguf-publish.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/gguf-publish.yml
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ jobs:
     - name: Set up Python
       uses: actions/setup-python@v5
       with:
-        python-version: '3.9.x'
+        python-version: '3.12'
     - name: Install dependencies
       run: |
         cd gguf-py
diff --git a/.github/workflows/python-check-requirements.yml b/.github/workflows/python-check-requirements.yml
index 46e80aecd0a0c..0d65c48990179 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/python-check-requirements.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/python-check-requirements.yml
@@ -28,6 +28,6 @@ jobs:
       - name: Set up Python environment
         uses: actions/setup-python@v5
         with:
-          python-version: "3.11"
+          python-version: "3.12"
       - name: Run check-requirements.sh script
         run:  bash scripts/check-requirements.sh
diff --git a/.github/workflows/server.yml b/.github/workflows/server.yml
index 1ea1300c2e4c3..943bd08d38ce6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/server.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/server.yml
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ jobs:
         id: setup_python
         uses: actions/setup-python@v5
         with:
-          python-version: '3.11'
+          python-version: '3.12'
 
       - name: Tests dependencies
         id: test_dependencies
@@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ jobs:
         id: setup_python
         uses: actions/setup-python@v5
         with:
-          python-version: '3.11'
+          python-version: '3.12'
 
       - name: Tests dependencies
         id: test_dependencies
@@ -361,7 +361,7 @@ jobs:
         id: setup_python
         uses: actions/setup-python@v5
         with:
-          python-version: '3.11'
+          python-version: '3.12'
 
       - name: Tests dependencies
         id: test_dependencies
diff --git a/.github/workflows/snyk-security-scan.yml b/.github/workflows/snyk-security-scan.yml
index 350c26613befe..0e3f153e7407a 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/snyk-security-scan.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/snyk-security-scan.yml
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Setup Python
         uses: actions/setup-python@v4
         with:
-          python-version: '3.9'
+          python-version: '3.12'
 
       - name: Install dependencies
         run: |
diff --git a/.github/workflows/update-ops-docs.yml b/.github/workflows/update-ops-docs.yml
index d5e264b34f496..6214acd154f06 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/update-ops-docs.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/update-ops-docs.yml
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ jobs:
         - name: Set up Python
           uses: actions/setup-python@v5
           with:
-              python-version: '3.x'
+              python-version: '3.12'
 
         - name: Generate operations documentation to temporary file
           run: |
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 3d71b055a8dbf..8ee220fee3b14 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ classifiers = [
 ]
 
 [tool.poetry.dependencies]
-python = ">=3.9"
+python = ">=3.12"
 numpy = "^1.25.0"
 sentencepiece = ">=0.1.98,<=0.2.0"
 transformers = ">=4.35.2,<5.0.0"
diff --git a/tests/test-json-schema-to-grammar.cpp b/tests/test-json-schema-to-grammar.cpp
index 67df240c6fef3..4a2b4076989ad 100755
--- a/tests/test-json-schema-to-grammar.cpp
+++ b/tests/test-json-schema-to-grammar.cpp
@@ -1320,7 +1320,7 @@ int main() {
     if (getenv("LLAMA_SKIP_TESTS_SLOW_ON_EMULATOR")) {
         fprintf(stderr, "\033[33mWARNING: Skipping slow tests on emulator.\n\033[0m");
     } else {
-        if (getenv("LLAMA_PYTHON_AVAILABLE") || (std::system("python -c \"import sys; exit(1) if sys.version_info < (3, 8) else print('Python version is sufficient')\"") == 0)) {
+        if (getenv("LLAMA_PYTHON_AVAILABLE") || (std::system("python -c \"import sys; exit(1) if sys.version_info < (3, 12) else print('Python version is sufficient')\"") == 0)) {
             test_all("Python", [](const TestCase & tc) {
                 write("test-json-schema-input.tmp", tc.schema);
                 tc.verify_status(std::system(
@@ -1328,7 +1328,7 @@ int main() {
                 tc.verify(read("test-grammar-output.tmp"));
             });
         } else {
-            fprintf(stderr, "\033[33mWARNING: Python not found (min version required is 3.8), skipping Python JSON schema -> grammar tests.\n\033[0m");
+            fprintf(stderr, "\033[33mWARNING: Python not found (min version required is 3.12), skipping Python JSON schema -> grammar tests.\n\033[0m");
         }
 
         if (getenv("LLAMA_NODE_AVAILABLE") || (std::system("node --version") == 0)) {