diff --git a/.github/workflows/tox.yml b/.github/workflows/tox.yml
index e5223672819..c9ba706a8f9 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/tox.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/tox.yml
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       max-parallel: 5
       matrix:
-        python-version: [3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, '3.10', '3.11', '3.12']
+        python-version: [3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, '3.10', '3.11', '3.12', '3.13']
 
     steps:
     - uses: actions/checkout@v4
diff --git a/kolibri/core/content/migrations/0038_alter_localfile_extension.py b/kolibri/core/content/migrations/0038_alter_localfile_extension.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..137a92b12ec
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kolibri/core/content/migrations/0038_alter_localfile_extension.py
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+# Generated by Django 3.2.25 on 2024-10-24 22:56
+from django.db import migrations
+from django.db import models
+
+
+class Migration(migrations.Migration):
+
+    dependencies = [
+        ("content", "0037_add_bloompub_preset"),
+    ]
+
+    operations = [
+        migrations.AlterField(
+            model_name="localfile",
+            name="extension",
+            field=models.CharField(
+                blank=True,
+                choices=[
+                    ("mp4", "MP4 Video"),
+                    ("webm", "WEBM Video"),
+                    ("vtt", "VTT Subtitle"),
+                    ("mp3", "MP3 Audio"),
+                    ("pdf", "PDF Document"),
+                    ("jpg", "JPG Image"),
+                    ("jpeg", "JPEG Image"),
+                    ("png", "PNG Image"),
+                    ("gif", "GIF Image"),
+                    ("json", "JSON"),
+                    ("svg", "SVG Image"),
+                    ("perseus", "Perseus Exercise"),
+                    ("graphie", "Graphie Exercise"),
+                    ("zip", "HTML5 Zip"),
+                    ("h5p", "H5P"),
+                    ("zim", "ZIM"),
+                    ("epub", "ePub Document"),
+                    ("bloompub", "Bloom Document"),
+                    ("bloomd", "Bloom Document"),
+                ],
+                max_length=40,
+            ),
+        ),
+    ]
diff --git a/kolibri/utils/compat_cgi.py b/kolibri/utils/compat_cgi.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..a825ef5a95f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kolibri/utils/compat_cgi.py
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+"""
+A minimal port of the removed cgi module for use in Python 3.13.
+Only imports the specific parts of the module that are used by Django.
+Informed by the PR that removed its use in Django:
+https://github.com/django/django/pull/15679
+"""
+from django.utils.regex_helper import _lazy_re_compile
+
+
+def _parseparam(s):
+    while s[:1] == ";":
+        s = s[1:]
+        end = s.find(";")
+        while end > 0 and (s.count('"', 0, end) - s.count('\\"', 0, end)) % 2:
+            end = s.find(";", end + 1)
+        if end < 0:
+            end = len(s)
+        f = s[:end]
+        yield f.strip()
+        s = s[end:]
+
+
+def parse_header(line):
+    """
+    Parse a Content-type like header.
+    Return the main content-type and a dictionary of options.
+    """
+    parts = _parseparam(";" + line)
+    key = parts.__next__()
+    pdict = {}
+    for p in parts:
+        i = p.find("=")
+        if i >= 0:
+            name = p[:i].strip().lower()
+            value = p[i + 1 :].strip()
+            if len(value) >= 2 and value[0] == value[-1] == '"':
+                value = value[1:-1]
+                value = value.replace("\\\\", "\\").replace('\\"', '"')
+            pdict[name] = value
+    return key, pdict
+
+
+boundary_re = _lazy_re_compile(rb"[ -~]{0,200}[!-~]")
+
+
+def valid_boundary(boundary):
+    return boundary_re.fullmatch(boundary) is not None
diff --git a/kolibri/utils/env.py b/kolibri/utils/env.py
index 3009c5f75b1..532d1fd4f3c 100644
--- a/kolibri/utils/env.py
+++ b/kolibri/utils/env.py
@@ -109,6 +109,19 @@ def monkey_patch_distutils():
         sys.modules["distutils.version"] = module
 
 
+def forward_port_cgi_module():
+    """
+    Forward ports the required parts of the removed cgi module.
+    This can be removed when we upgrade to a version of Django that is Python 3.13 compatible.
+    """
+    if sys.version_info < (3, 13):
+        return
+    from importlib import import_module
+
+    module = import_module("kolibri.utils.compat_cgi")
+    sys.modules["cgi"] = module
+
+
 def set_env():
     """
     Sets the Kolibri environment for the CLI or other application worker
@@ -120,6 +133,7 @@ def set_env():
     """
     monkey_patch_markdown()
     monkey_patch_distutils()
+    forward_port_cgi_module()
 
     from kolibri import dist as kolibri_dist  # noqa
 
diff --git a/requirements/base.txt b/requirements/base.txt
index e5e29c04110..89a80bb655b 100644
--- a/requirements/base.txt
+++ b/requirements/base.txt
@@ -9,9 +9,9 @@ django-mptt==0.14.0
 requests==2.27.1
 cheroot==10.0.1
 magicbus==4.1.2
-le-utils==0.2.6
+le-utils==0.2.8
 jsonfield==3.1.0
-morango==0.8.1
+morango==0.8.2
 tzlocal==4.2
 pytz==2024.1
 python-dateutil==2.9.0.post0
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 36e42c0bfcd..17136d7108b 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -100,8 +100,9 @@ def run(self):
         "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10",
         "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11",
         "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12",
+        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.13",
         "Programming Language :: Python :: Implementation :: PyPy",
     ],
     cmdclass={"install_scripts": gen_windows_batch_files},
-    python_requires=">=3.6,  <3.13",
+    python_requires=">=3.6,  <3.14",
 )
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index c6364edac97..90fdaae4bd1 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [tox]
-envlist = py{3.6,3.7,3.8,3.9,3.10,3.11,3.12}, postgres
+envlist = py{3.6,3.7,3.8,3.9,3.10,3.11,3.12,3.13}, postgres
 
 [testenv]
 usedevelop = True
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ basepython =
     py3.10: python3.10
     py3.11: python3.11
     py3.12: python3.12
+    py3.13: python3.13
 deps =
     -r{toxinidir}/requirements/test.txt
     -r{toxinidir}/requirements/base.txt