diff --git a/.github/workflows/run-test.yaml b/.github/workflows/run-test.yaml
index cddf78ba..d8da46d0 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/run-test.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/run-test.yaml
@@ -30,11 +30,11 @@ jobs:
           - "windows-latest"
           - "macos-latest"
         python-version:
-          - "3.7"
           - "3.8"
           - "3.9"
           - "3.10"
           - "3.11"
+          - "3.12"
         sqlalchemy:
           - sqla13
           - sqla14
@@ -73,6 +73,7 @@ jobs:
           - "3.9"
           - "3.10"
           - "3.11"
+          - "3.12"
 
       fail-fast: false
 
diff --git a/README.unittests.rst b/README.unittests.rst
index b741d581..6e7dcd2c 100644
--- a/README.unittests.rst
+++ b/README.unittests.rst
@@ -23,20 +23,20 @@ Advanced Tox Options
 
 For more elaborate CI-style test running, the tox script provided will
 run against various Python / database targets.   For a basic run against
-Python 3.9 using an in-memory SQLite database::
+Python 3.11 using an in-memory SQLite database::
 
-    tox -e py39-sqlite
+    tox -e py311-sqlite
 
 The tox runner contains a series of target combinations that can run
 against various combinations of databases.  The test suite can be
 run against SQLite with "backend" tests also running against a PostgreSQL
 database::
 
-    tox -e py39-sqlite-postgresql
+    tox -e py311-sqlite-postgresql
 
 Or to run just "backend" tests against a MySQL database::
 
-    tox -e py39-mysql-backendonly
+    tox -e py311-mysql-backendonly
 
 Running against backends other than SQLite requires that a database of that
 vendor be available at a specific URL.  See "Setting Up Databases" below
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ with the tox runner also::
     [db]
     postgresql=postgresql://username:pass@hostname/dbname
 
-Now when we run ``tox -e py39-postgresql``, it will use our custom URL instead
+Now when we run ``tox -e py311-postgresql``, it will use our custom URL instead
 of the fixed one in setup.cfg.
 
 Database Configuration
diff --git a/alembic/__init__.py b/alembic/__init__.py
index d0ecfc1a..01bdfdc5 100644
--- a/alembic/__init__.py
+++ b/alembic/__init__.py
@@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
-import sys
-
 from . import context
 from . import op
 
-__version__ = "1.12.2"
+__version__ = "1.13.0"
diff --git a/alembic/util/compat.py b/alembic/util/compat.py
index 31e0208d..5b8f3d95 100644
--- a/alembic/util/compat.py
+++ b/alembic/util/compat.py
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@
 py311 = sys.version_info >= (3, 11)
 py310 = sys.version_info >= (3, 10)
 py39 = sys.version_info >= (3, 9)
-py38 = sys.version_info >= (3, 8)
 
 
 # produce a wrapper that allows encoded text to stream
diff --git a/docs/build/conf.py b/docs/build/conf.py
index 658beb6b..e4d34785 100644
--- a/docs/build/conf.py
+++ b/docs/build/conf.py
@@ -259,8 +259,6 @@
 # latex_use_modindex = True
 
 
-# {'python': ('http://docs.python.org/3.2', None)}
-
 autoclass_content = "both"
 
 intersphinx_mapping = {
diff --git a/docs/build/front.rst b/docs/build/front.rst
index 2dba5b95..28d40c74 100644
--- a/docs/build/front.rst
+++ b/docs/build/front.rst
@@ -79,11 +79,10 @@ SQLAlchemy as of version **1.3.0**.
 
 .. versionchanged:: 1.5.0 Support for SQLAlchemy older than 1.3.0 was dropped.
 
-Alembic supports Python versions **3.7 and above**
+Alembic supports Python versions **3.8 and above**
 
+.. versionchanged::  1.13  Alembic now supports Python 3.8 and newer.
 .. versionchanged::  1.8  Alembic now supports Python 3.7 and newer.
-.. versionchanged::  1.7  Alembic now supports Python 3.6 and newer; support
-   for Python 2.7 has been dropped.
 
 .. _versioning_scheme:
 
diff --git a/docs/build/requirements.txt b/docs/build/requirements.txt
index 6b2fd0e5..d042a565 100644
--- a/docs/build/requirements.txt
+++ b/docs/build/requirements.txt
@@ -4,6 +4,6 @@ git+https://github.com/sqlalchemy/sqlalchemy.git
 python-dateutil
 # because there's a dependency in pyfiles.py
 Mako
-importlib-metadata;python_version<"3.8"
+importlib-metadata;python_version<"3.9"
 importlib-resources;python_version<"3.9"
 sphinx_copybutton==0.5.1
diff --git a/docs/build/unreleased/1359.rst b/docs/build/unreleased/1359.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..7e5340d0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/build/unreleased/1359.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+.. change::
+    :tags: installation, changed
+    :tickets: 1359
+
+    Alembic 1.13 now supports Python 3.8 and above.
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index e3e67ea9..7453183c 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ classifiers =
     Operating System :: OS Independent
     Programming Language :: Python
     Programming Language :: Python :: 3
-    Programming Language :: Python :: 3.7
     Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8
     Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9
     Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10
@@ -38,7 +37,7 @@ project_urls =
 packages = find_namespace:
 include_package_data = true
 zip_safe = false
-python_requires = >=3.7
+python_requires = >=3.8
 
 install_requires =
     SQLAlchemy>=1.3.0