diff --git a/docs/index.md b/docs/index.md
index 9c30f46299..cfbc1811d3 100644
--- a/docs/index.md
+++ b/docs/index.md
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ This tutorial will help you:
 - Run the Strawberry server that lets you execute queries against your schema
 
 This tutorial assumes that you are familiar with the command line and Python,
-and that you have a recent version of Python (3.8+) installed.
+and that you have a recent version of Python (3.9+) installed.
 
 Strawberry is built on top of Python’s
 [dataclasses](https://realpython.com/python-data-classes/) and
diff --git a/poetry.lock b/poetry.lock
index 5428088851..22cd41a298 100644
--- a/poetry.lock
+++ b/poetry.lock
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# This file is automatically @generated by Poetry 1.8.5 and should not be changed by hand.
+# This file is automatically @generated by Poetry 1.8.2 and should not be changed by hand.
 
 [[package]]
 name = "aiofiles"
@@ -4774,4 +4774,4 @@ sanic = ["sanic"]
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "2.0"
 python-versions = "^3.9"
-content-hash = "7ff91376b60e5b89d4a0e2016507c73c73d1063ba9a3dff6f1400473a820bab9"
+content-hash = "6ccb728661c37d68d045aaae1651fd3f55b6905aa7d9d81711b70da488f7d05f"
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 4a709ba9a7..d03033ade7 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ pytest-aiohttp = "^1.0.3"
 pytest-django = {version = "^4.5"}
 sanic = ">=20.12.2"
 starlette = ">=0.13.6"
-litestar = {version = ">=2", optional = false, python = ">=3.8"}
+litestar = {version = ">=2", optional = false}
 uvicorn = ">=0.11.6"
 daphne = "^4.0.0"