diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 14df607b47c..eca9654c3b2 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ Installation
 
 Before installing ScanCode make sure that you have installed the prerequisites
 properly. This means installing Python 3.8 for x86/64 architectures.
-We support Python 3.8, 3.9, 3.10 and 3.11.
+We support Python 3.8, 3.9, 3.10, 3.11 and 3.12.
 
 See `prerequisites <https://scancode-toolkit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting-started/install.html#prerequisites>`_
 for detailed information on the support platforms and Python versions.
diff --git a/requirements-native.txt b/requirements-native.txt
index 00531f5f092..f1f2b09b80e 100644
--- a/requirements-native.txt
+++ b/requirements-native.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-cffi==1.15.1
+cffi==1.16.0
 intbitset==3.1.0
-lxml==4.9.4
-MarkupSafe==2.1.1
-pyahocorasick==2.0.0
-PyYAML==6.0
+lxml==5.1.0
+MarkupSafe==2.1.5
+pyahocorasick==2.1.0
+PyYAML==6.0.1
diff --git a/setup-mini.cfg b/setup-mini.cfg
index a9823813dcc..d9487072a41 100644
--- a/setup-mini.cfg
+++ b/setup-mini.cfg
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ install_requires =
     chardet >= 3.0.0
     click >= 6.7, !=7.0
     colorama >= 0.3.9
-    commoncode >= 31.0.2
+    commoncode >= 31.0.3
     container-inspector >= 31.0.0
     debian-inspector >= 31.1.0
     dparse2 >= 0.7.0
diff --git a/src/scancode_config.py b/src/scancode_config.py
index 3a761c7e4ad..e801eee2e79 100644
--- a/src/scancode_config.py
+++ b/src/scancode_config.py
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ def _create_dir(location):
 #######################
 # used to warn user when the version is out of date
 # this is (year, month, day)
-__release_date__ = datetime.datetime(2023, 10, 11)
+__release_date__ = datetime.datetime(2024, 03, 22)
 
 # See https://github.com/nexB/scancode-toolkit/issues/2653 for more information
 # on the data format version