diff --git a/.github/workflows/dist.yaml b/.github/workflows/dist.yaml
index 0d2adc9ee..ecf6f0a7f 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/dist.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/dist.yaml
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ jobs:
     - name: Setup Python
       uses: actions/setup-python@v5
       with:
-        python-version: 3.8
+        python-version: "3.10"
     - name: Build dist
       run: |
         pip install build
diff --git a/.github/workflows/docs.yaml b/.github/workflows/docs.yaml
index acce766ea..1a5a36a87 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/docs.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/docs.yaml
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Setup Python
         uses: actions/setup-python@v5
         with:
-          python-version: 3.8
+          python-version: "3.10"
       - name: Install dependencies
         run: |
           pip install -e .[docs,examples]
diff --git a/.github/workflows/test.yml b/.github/workflows/test.yml
index b77cfd38c..850abdfe7 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/test.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/test.yml
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+---
 name: Tests
 
 on:
@@ -21,13 +22,13 @@ concurrency:
 
 jobs:
   test:
-    name: (${{ matrix.os }}, Py${{ matrix.python-version }}, sk${{ matrix.scikit-learn }}, sk-only:${{ matrix.sklearn-only }})
+    name: (${{ matrix.os }},Py${{ matrix.python-version }},sk${{ matrix.scikit-learn }},sk-only:${{ matrix.sklearn-only }})
     runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
 
     strategy:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
-        python-version: ["3.10", "3.11", "3.12", "3.13"]
+        python-version: ["3.10", "3.11", "3.12", "3.13", "3.14"]
         scikit-learn: ["1.3.*", "1.4.*", "1.5.*", "1.6.*", "1.7.*"]
         os: [ubuntu-latest]
         sklearn-only: ["true"]
@@ -38,8 +39,18 @@ jobs:
             scikit-learn: "1.3.*"
           - python-version: "3.13"
             scikit-learn: "1.4.*"
+          - python-version: "3.14"
+            scikit-learn: "1.3.*"
+          - python-version: "3.14"
+            scikit-learn: "1.4.*"
 
         include:
+          # Full test run on ubuntu, 3.14
+          - os: ubuntu-latest
+            python-version: "3.14"
+            scikit-learn: "1.7.*"
+            sklearn-only: "false"
+
           # Full test run on Windows
           - os: windows-latest
             python-version: "3.12"
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 92679e5ca..d512c0ee6 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -98,7 +98,17 @@ dmypy.sock
 
 # Tests
 .pytest_cache
+
+# Virtual environments
+oenv/
+venv/
+.env/
 .venv
+.venv/
+
+# Python cache
+__pycache__/
+*.pyc
 
 # Ruff
-.ruff-cache/
\ No newline at end of file
+.ruff-cache/
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index e8df97ad6..c44e42981 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 ## The Python API for a World of Data and More :dizzy:
 
 [![Latest Release](https://img.shields.io/github/v/release/openml/openml-python)](https://github.com/openml/openml-python/releases)
-[![Python Versions](https://img.shields.io/badge/python-3.8%20%7C%203.9%20%7C%203.10%20%7C%203.11%20%7C%203.12%20%7C%203.13-blue)](https://pypi.org/project/openml/)
+[![Python Versions](https://img.shields.io/badge/python-3.10%20%7C%203.11%20%7C%203.12%20%7C%203.13%20%7C%203.14-blue)](https://pypi.org/project/openml/)
 [![Downloads](https://static.pepy.tech/badge/openml)](https://pepy.tech/project/openml)
 [![License](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-BSD%203--Clause-blue.svg)](https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause)
 <!-- Add green badges for CI and precommit -->
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ for task_id in suite.tasks:
 
 ## :magic_wand: Installation
 
-OpenML-Python is supported on Python 3.8 - 3.13 and is available on Linux, MacOS, and Windows.
+OpenML-Python is supported on Python 3.10 - 3.14 and is available on Linux, MacOS, and Windows.
 
 You can install OpenML-Python with:
 
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index ede204ca0..14309c2d5 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ dependencies = [
   "pyarrow",
   "tqdm",  # For MinIO download progress bars
 ]
-requires-python = ">=3.8"
+requires-python = ">=3.10,<3.15"    
 maintainers = [
   { name = "Pieter Gijsbers", email="p.gijsbers@tue.nl"},
   { name = "Lennart Purucker"},