diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 092677069..37e4873ef 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ dynamic = [
 description = "Neural Question Answering & Semantic Search at Scale. Use modern transformer based models like BERT to find answers in large document collections"
 readme = "README.md"
 license = "Apache-2.0"
-requires-python = ">=3.7"
+requires-python = ">=3.8"
 authors = [
   { name = "deepset.ai", email = "malte.pietsch@deepset.ai" },
 ]
@@ -40,14 +40,12 @@ 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",
   "Topic :: Scientific/Engineering :: Artificial Intelligence",
 ]
 dependencies = [
-  "importlib-metadata; python_version < '3.8'",
   "requests",
   "pydantic",
   "transformers[torch]==4.25.1",