diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index cd4efd5..c99b44c 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+[project]
+requires-python = ">= 3.8" 
+
 [build-system]
 requires = [
     "numpy>=2.0",
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 95c63e5..9c125d0 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -90,14 +90,14 @@ def is_platform_mac():
 
 setup(
     name='diffcp',
-    version="1.0.23",
+    version="1.0.25",
     author="Akshay Agrawal, Shane Barratt, Stephen Boyd, Enzo Busseti, Walaa Moursi",
     long_description=long_description,
     long_description_content_type="text/markdown",
     packages=find_packages(),
     setup_requires=['pybind11 >= 2.4'],
     install_requires=[
-        "numpy >= 1.15",
+        "numpy >= 2.0",
         "scs >= 2.0.2",  # 2.0.2 is the oldest version on conda forge
         "scipy >= 1.1.0",
         "pybind11 >= 2.4",