diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yaml b/.github/workflows/ci.yaml
index 2caaa3c..40b39f1 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yaml
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       matrix:
         os: [macos-13, ubuntu-latest] #macos-latest/macos-14 is M1 - some deps fail it due to not having M1 build (MMSeqs2)
-        python-version: ["3.8", "3.9"]
+        python-version: ["3.9", "3.12"]
 
     steps:
       - uses: "actions/checkout@v3"
@@ -55,8 +55,4 @@ jobs:
           export TERM=linux
           unicycler --version
           just test-ci
-      - name: Upload coverage reports to Codecov
-        uses: codecov/codecov-action@v3
-        with:
-            use_node: true      
 
diff --git a/build/environment.yaml b/build/environment.yaml
index 6cec33a..c398ef8 100644
--- a/build/environment.yaml
+++ b/build/environment.yaml
@@ -16,5 +16,5 @@ dependencies:
   - dnaapler >=0.4.0
   - just
   - poetry
-  - python >=3.8,<3.10
+  - python >=3.8,<3.14
   - ripgrep
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 3e0e44f..79e163d 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "plassembler"
-version = "1.7.1" # change VERSION too
+version = "1.8.0" # change VERSION too
 description = "Quickly and accurately assemble plasmids in hybrid sequenced bacterial isolates"
 authors = ["George Bouras <george.bouras@adelaide.edu.au>"]
 license = "MIT"
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ include = [
 plassembler = 'plassembler:main'
 
 [tool.poetry.dependencies]
-python = ">=3.8,<3.10"
+python = ">=3.8,<3.14"
 click = ">=8.0.0"
 loguru = ">=0.5.3"
 pyyaml = ">=6.0"
diff --git a/src/plassembler/utils/VERSION b/src/plassembler/utils/VERSION
index 943f9cb..27f9cd3 100644
--- a/src/plassembler/utils/VERSION
+++ b/src/plassembler/utils/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-1.7.1
+1.8.0