diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 36beb83b..9df33021 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ jobs:
     - uses: pre-commit/action@v3.0.1
 
   build-scratch:
-    name: ${{ matrix.runs-on }} • py${{ matrix.python }}
+    name: "${{ matrix.runs-on }} • py${{ matrix.python }}"
     needs: pre-commit
     defaults:
       run:
@@ -40,54 +40,19 @@ jobs:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
         include:
-# To minimise the computational resources, we only use a single python version and the final test-wheels for all python versions
+          # To minimise the computational resources, we only use a single python version and the final test-wheels for all python versions
           - runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-            python: '3.8'
+            python: '3.12'
             triplet: x64-linux-mixed
-#          - runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-#            python: '3.9'
-#            triplet: x64-linux-mixed
-#          - runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-#            python: '3.10'
-#            triplet: x64-linux-mixed
-#          - runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-#            python: '3.11'
-#            triplet: x64-linux-mixed
-#          - runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-#            python: '3.12'
-#            triplet: x64-linux-mixed
 
-          - runs-on: macos-12  # macos latest is macos-14-arm64 running on M1 chips which doesn't have python support
-            python: '3.8'
+          - runs-on: macos-13
+            python: '3.12'
             triplet: x64-osx-mixed
-#          - runs-on: macos-12
-#            python: '3.9'
-#            triplet: x64-osx-mixed
-#          - runs-on: macos-12
-#            python: '3.10'
-#            triplet: x64-osx-mixed
-#          - runs-on: macos-12
-#            python: '3.11'
-#            triplet: x64-osx-mixed
-#          - runs-on: macos-12
-#            python: '3.12'
-#            triplet: x64-osx-mixed
 
           - runs-on: windows-latest
-            python: '3.8'
+            python: '3.12'
             triplet: x64-windows
-#          - runs-on: windows-latest
-#            python: '3.9'
-#            triplet: x64-windows
-#          - runs-on: windows-latest
-#            python: '3.10'
-#            triplet: x64-windows
-#          - runs-on: windows-latest
-#            python: '3.11'
-#            triplet: x64-windows
-#          - runs-on: windows-latest
-#            python: '3.12'
-#            triplet: x64-windows
+
     env:
       VCPKG_DEFAULT_TRIPLET: ${{ matrix.triplet }}
     runs-on: ${{ matrix.runs-on }}
@@ -99,24 +64,11 @@ jobs:
       with:
         python-version: ${{ matrix.python }}
 
-    - name: Install test dependencies
+    - name: Install windows cmake
       # TODO(jfarebro): There's a bug with Windows cmake and PEP517 builds via pip install.
       # As a temporary workaround installing cmake outside of the isolated env seems to work.
       run: python -m pip install --user cmake
-
-    - uses: microsoft/setup-msbuild@v2
       if: runner.os == 'Windows'
-    # TODO(jfarebro): 02/16/2023 - There's a bug where pkg-config isn't installed on the macOS
-    # runner. See: https://github.com/actions/runner-images/pull/7125
-    - name: Install pkg-config on macOS
-      if: runner.os == 'macOS'
-      run: brew install pkg-config
-    - uses: lukka/run-vcpkg@v11
-      with:
-        vcpkgGitCommitId: "8150939b69720adc475461978e07c2d2bf5fb76e"
-        # There's a permissions issue with the cache
-        # https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg/issues/20121
-        doNotCache: true
 
     - name: Download and unpack ROMs
       run: ./scripts/download_unpack_roms.sh
@@ -128,21 +80,22 @@ jobs:
       run: python -m pytest
 
   build-wheels:
-    name: ${{ matrix.runs-on }} • ${{ matrix.arch }}
+    name: "${{ matrix.runs-on }} • ${{ matrix.arch }}"
     needs: pre-commit
     defaults:
       run:
         shell: bash
     strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
       matrix:
         include:
           - runs-on: ubuntu-latest
             arch: x86_64
           - runs-on: windows-latest
             arch: AMD64
-          - runs-on: macos-12
+          - runs-on: macos-13
             arch: x86_64
-          - runs-on: macos-12
+          - runs-on: macos-13
             arch: arm64
     runs-on: ${{ matrix.runs-on }}
 
@@ -155,7 +108,6 @@ jobs:
         uses: docker/setup-buildx-action@v3
         with:
           install: true
-
       - name: Build Docker image with vcpkg
         if: runner.os == 'linux'
         # using build-push-action (without push) to make use of cache arguments
@@ -167,22 +119,6 @@ jobs:
           push: false
           load: true
 
-      - uses: microsoft/setup-msbuild@v2
-        if: runner.os == 'Windows'
-      # TODO(jfarebro): 02/16/2023 - There's a bug where pkg-config isn't installed on the macOS
-      # runner. See: https://github.com/actions/runner-images/pull/7125
-      - name: Install pkg-config on macOS
-        if: runner.os == 'macOS'
-        run: brew install pkg-config
-
-      - uses: lukka/run-vcpkg@v11
-        if: runner.os != 'linux'
-        with:
-          vcpkgGitCommitId: "8150939b69720adc475461978e07c2d2bf5fb76e"
-          # There's a permissions issue with the cache
-          # https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg/issues/20121
-          doNotCache: true
-
       - name: Download and unpack ROMs
         run: ./scripts/download_unpack_roms.sh
 
@@ -210,10 +146,6 @@ jobs:
           # ale_py-0.x.x-cp310-cp310-macosx_11_0_arm64.whl
           # ale_py-0.x.x-cp310-cp310-manylinux_2_17_x86_64.manylinux2014_x86_64.whl
           # ale_py-0.x.x-cp310-cp310-win_amd64.whl
-          - runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-            python: '3.8'
-            wheel-name: 'cp38-cp38-manylinux_2_17_x86_64.manylinux2014_x86_64'
-            arch: 'x86_64'
           - runs-on: ubuntu-latest
             python: '3.9'
             wheel-name: 'cp39-cp39-manylinux_2_17_x86_64.manylinux2014_x86_64'
@@ -230,11 +162,11 @@ jobs:
             python: '3.12'
             wheel-name: 'cp312-cp312-manylinux_2_17_x86_64.manylinux2014_x86_64'
             arch: 'x86_64'
+          - runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+            python: '3.13'
+            wheel-name: 'cp313-cp313-manylinux_2_17_x86_64.manylinux2014_x86_64'
+            arch: 'x86_64'
 
-          - runs-on: windows-latest
-            python: '3.8'
-            wheel-name: 'cp38-cp38-win_amd64'
-            arch: AMD64
           - runs-on: windows-latest
             python: '3.9'
             wheel-name: 'cp39-cp39-win_amd64'
@@ -251,32 +183,32 @@ jobs:
             python: '3.12'
             wheel-name: 'cp312-cp312-win_amd64'
             arch: AMD64
+          - runs-on: windows-latest
+            python: '3.13'
+            wheel-name: 'cp313-cp313-win_amd64'
+            arch: AMD64
 
-          - runs-on: macos-12
-            python: '3.8'
-            wheel-name: 'cp38-cp38-macosx_10_15_x86_64'
-            arch: x86_64
-          - runs-on: macos-12
+          - runs-on: macos-13
             python: '3.9'
             wheel-name: 'cp39-cp39-macosx_10_15_x86_64'
             arch: x86_64
-          - runs-on: macos-12
+          - runs-on: macos-13
             python: '3.10'
             wheel-name: 'cp310-cp310-macosx_10_15_x86_64'
             arch: x86_64
-          - runs-on: macos-12
+          - runs-on: macos-13
             python: '3.11'
             wheel-name: 'cp311-cp311-macosx_10_15_x86_64'
             arch: x86_64
-          - runs-on: macos-12
+          - runs-on: macos-13
             python: '3.12'
             wheel-name: 'cp312-cp312-macosx_10_15_x86_64'
             arch: x86_64
+          - runs-on: macos-13
+            python: '3.13'
+            wheel-name: 'cp313-cp313-macosx_10_15_x86_64'
+            arch: x86_64
 
-          - runs-on: macos-14
-            python: '3.8'
-            wheel-name: 'cp38-cp38-macosx_11_0_arm64'
-            arch: arm64
           - runs-on: macos-14
             python: '3.9'
             wheel-name: 'cp39-cp39-macosx_11_0_arm64'
@@ -293,6 +225,10 @@ jobs:
             python: '3.12'
             wheel-name: 'cp312-cp312-macosx_11_0_arm64'
             arch: arm64
+          - runs-on: macos-14
+            python: '3.13'
+            wheel-name: 'cp313-cp313-macosx_11_0_arm64'
+            arch: arm64
 
     runs-on: ${{ matrix.runs-on }}
 
@@ -313,7 +249,7 @@ jobs:
         run: python -m pip install ale_py-0.10.1-${{ matrix.wheel-name }}.whl
 
       - name: Install Gymnasium and pytest
-        run: python -m pip install gymnasium>=1.0.0a2 pytest
+        run: python -m pip install gymnasium>=1.0.0 pytest
 
       - name: Test
         run: python -m pytest
diff --git a/.github/workflows/pypi.yml b/.github/workflows/pypi.yml
index c4d2a300..92e309e7 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pypi.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pypi.yml
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ jobs:
       run: ./scripts/download_unpack_roms.sh
 
     - name: Build wheels
-      uses: pypa/cibuildwheel@v2.21.3
+      uses: pypa/cibuildwheel@v2.21
       env:
         CIBW_ARCHS: "${{ matrix.arch }}"
 
diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
index 0e8ade97..838efbaa 100644
--- a/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # See https://pre-commit.com/hooks.html for more hooks
 repos:
   - repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit-hooks
-    rev: v4.6.0
+    rev: v5.0.0
     hooks:
       - id: check-symlinks
       - id: destroyed-symlinks
@@ -36,17 +36,17 @@ repos:
           - --show-source
           - --statistics
   - repo: https://github.com/asottile/pyupgrade
-    rev: v3.17.0
+    rev: v3.19.0
     hooks:
       - id: pyupgrade
-        args: ["--py38-plus"]
+        args: ["--py39-plus"]
   - repo: https://github.com/PyCQA/isort
     rev: 5.13.2
     hooks:
       - id: isort
         args: ["--profile", "black"]
   - repo: https://github.com/python/black
-    rev: 24.8.0
+    rev: 24.10.0
     hooks:
       - id: black
   - repo: https://github.com/pycqa/pydocstyle
diff --git a/docs/getting-started.md b/docs/getting-started.md
index 322738c3..dd046527 100644
--- a/docs/getting-started.md
+++ b/docs/getting-started.md
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@ The Python interface `ale-py` supports the following configurations:
 
 | Platform | Architecture | Python Version |
 |:--------:|:------------:|:--------------:|
-|  Linux   |     x64      |      3.8+      |
-|  macOS   |  x64, arm64  |      3.8+      |
-| Windows  |    AMD64     |      3.8+      |
+|  Linux   |     x64      |      3.9+      |
+|  macOS   |  x64, arm64  |      3.9+      |
+| Windows  |    AMD64     |      3.9+      |
 
 
 To install the Python interface from PyPi simply run:
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 5c197040..5870de92 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 name = "ale-py"
 description = "The Arcade Learning Environment (ALE) - a platform for AI research."
 readme = "README.md"
-requires-python = ">=3.8"
+requires-python = ">=3.9"
 license = {text = "GPLv2"}
 keywords = ["reinforcement-learning", "arcade-learning-environment", "atari"]
 authors = [
@@ -28,11 +28,11 @@ classifiers = [
     "Intended Audience :: Science/Research",
     "License :: OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License v2 (GPLv2)",
     "Programming Language :: Python :: 3",
-    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8",
     "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9",
     "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10",
     "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11",
     "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.13",
     "Topic :: Scientific/Engineering",
     "Topic :: Scientific/Engineering :: Artificial Intelligence",
 ]
diff --git a/src/ale/python/registration.py b/src/ale/python/registration.py
index 55fc72d4..9c0dcdd7 100644
--- a/src/ale/python/registration.py
+++ b/src/ale/python/registration.py
@@ -3,7 +3,8 @@
 from __future__ import annotations
 
 from collections import defaultdict
-from typing import Any, Callable, Mapping, NamedTuple, Sequence
+from collections.abc import Mapping, Sequence
+from typing import Any, Callable, NamedTuple
 
 import ale_py.roms as roms
 import gymnasium
diff --git a/vcpkg.json b/vcpkg.json
index 2066d952..1d06ba79 100644
--- a/vcpkg.json
+++ b/vcpkg.json
@@ -13,6 +13,6 @@
   },
   "builtin-baseline": "9aa0d66373ce3a6868d12353d0d4960db0d4bd18",
   "overrides": [
-    { "name": "sdl2", "version": "2.0.16" }
+    { "name": "sdl2", "version": "2.24.2" }
   ]
 }