diff --git a/.github/workflows/build-test-release.yaml b/.github/workflows/build-test-release.yaml
index c94b447..780c73d 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build-test-release.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build-test-release.yaml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ jobs:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
       - uses: actions/setup-python@v5
         with:
-          python-version: "3.7"
+          python-version: "3.12"
       - uses: pre-commit/action@v3.0.1
 
   run_tests:
diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
index 2bab696..a06a2f8 100644
--- a/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -20,6 +20,6 @@ repos:
     -   id: mypy
         additional_dependencies: ['types-requests', "types-PyYAML"]
 -   repo: https://github.com/PyCQA/flake8
-    rev: 4.0.1
+    rev: 7.1.1
     hooks:
     -   id: flake8