diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index e325877507f278d18a4d0d62c5d900aeac5e86c4..9a0234d0d83cba7a8219e1ea0ae26e68c5089c86 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -75,20 +75,6 @@ coverage:
         path: coverage.xml
 
 
-# test saqc with python 3.7
-python37:
-  stage: test
-  image: python:3.7
-  script:
-    - pytest tests dios/test -Werror --junitxml=report.xml
-    - python -m saqc --config docs/resources/data/config.csv --data docs/resources/data/data.csv --outfile /tmp/test.csv
-  artifacts:
-    when: always
-    reports:
-      junit: report.xml
-
-
-# test saqc with python 3.8
 python38:
   stage: test
   script:
@@ -100,7 +86,6 @@ python38:
       junit: report.xml
 
 
-# test saqc with python 3.9
 python39:
   stage: test
   image: python:3.9
@@ -113,7 +98,6 @@ python39:
       junit: report.xml
 
 
-# test saqc with python 3.10
 python310:
   stage: test
   image: python:3.10
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index ffc9bd3786f76fcab8093a135297b8b0dd9a41d7..8d94f137a401507889d809cd3e2e97565a566b68 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -11,12 +11,14 @@ SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
 ### Added
 - add option to not overwrite existing flags to `concatFlags`
 - add option to pass existing axis object to `plot`
+- python 3.11 support
 ### Changed
 - Remove all flag value restrictions from the default flagging scheme `FloatTranslator` 
 - Renamed `TranslationScheme.forward` to `TranslationScheme.toInternal` 
 - Renamed `TranslationScheme.backward` to `TranslationScheme.toExternal` 
 - Changed Default value of the parameter `limit` for `SaQC.interpolateIndex` and `SaQC.interpolateInvalid` to ``None`
 ### Removed
+- python 3.7 support
 ### Fixed
 
 ## [2.2.1](https://git.ufz.de/rdm-software/saqc/-/tags/v2.2.1) - 2022-10-29
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 5aedd38f50e34f65488bdf965fca22be4791e086..f1bd41c105cf83aa6a06fb4d2a9d00fee2f2c197 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ setup(
     long_description_content_type="text/markdown",
     url="https://git.ufz.de/rdm-software/saqc",
     packages=find_packages(exclude=("tests", "docs")),
-    python_requires=">=3.7",
+    python_requires=">=3.8",
     install_requires=[
         "Click",
         "dtw",