diff --git a/.github/workflows/validate.yaml b/.github/workflows/validate.yaml
index dc95a79b4a..8044ef02f4 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/validate.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/validate.yaml
@@ -25,30 +25,30 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
-        python-version: ["3.7", "3.8", "3.9", "3.10", "3.11"]
+        python-version: ["3.8", "3.9", "3.10", "3.11"]
         os: [ubuntu-latest, macos-latest, windows-latest]
         # This is used for injecting additional tests for a specific python
         # version and OS.
         suffix: [""]
         include:
-          - python-version: "3.7"
+          - python-version: "3.8"
             os: ubuntu-latest
             extensive-tests: true
             TOXENV_SUFFIX: "-docs"
-          - python-version: "3.7"
+          - python-version: "3.8"
             os: ubuntu-latest
             extensive-tests: true
             suffix: "-min"
             TOXENV_SUFFIX: "-min"
-          - python-version: "3.8"
+          - python-version: "3.9"
             os: ubuntu-latest
             TOX_EXTRA_COMMAND: "- isort --check-only --diff ."
             TOXENV_SUFFIX: "-docs"
-          - python-version: "3.9"
+          - python-version: "3.10"
             os: ubuntu-latest
             TOX_EXTRA_COMMAND: "- black --check --diff ./rdflib"
             TOXENV_SUFFIX: "-lxml"
-          - python-version: "3.10"
+          - python-version: "3.11"
             os: ubuntu-latest
             TOX_EXTRA_COMMAND: "flake8 --exit-zero rdflib"
             TOXENV_SUFFIX: "-docs"
@@ -56,9 +56,6 @@ jobs:
             extensive-tests: true
             TOX_TEST_HARNESS: "firejail --net=none --"
             TOX_PYTEST_EXTRA_ARGS: "-m 'not webtest'"
-          - python-version: "3.11"
-            os: ubuntu-latest
-            TOXENV_SUFFIX: "-docs"
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v3
       - name: Cache XDG_CACHE_HOME
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index b2a92d16a0..c654a2700c 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ Help with maintenance of all of the RDFLib family of packages is always welcome
 
 ## Versions & Releases
 
-* `7.0.0a0` current `main` branch
+* `7.0.0a0` current `main` branch and supports Python 3.8.1+ only.
 * `6.x.y` current release and support Python 3.7+ only. Many improvements over 5.0.0
     * see [Releases](https://github.com/RDFLib/rdflib/releases)
 * `5.x.y` supports Python 2.7 and 3.4+ and is [mostly backwards compatible with 4.2.2](https://rdflib.readthedocs.io/en/stable/upgrade4to5.html).
diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
index add49fdfef..93d78d8a09 100644
--- a/docs/conf.py
+++ b/docs/conf.py
@@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ def find_version(filename):
 
 # Example configuration for intersphinx: refer to the Python standard library.
 intersphinx_mapping = {
-    "python": ("https://docs.python.org/3.7", None),
+    "python": ("https://docs.python.org/3.8", None),
 }
 
 html_experimental_html5_writer = True
@@ -331,9 +331,6 @@ def find_version(filename):
         ]
     )
 
-if sys.version_info < (3, 8):
-    nitpick_ignore.extend([("py:class", "importlib_metadata.EntryPoint")])
-
 
 def autodoc_skip_member_handler(
     app: sphinx.application.Sphinx,
diff --git a/docs/developers.rst b/docs/developers.rst
index 759e017ead..d6cc67e2e1 100644
--- a/docs/developers.rst
+++ b/docs/developers.rst
@@ -437,6 +437,8 @@ flag them as expecting to fail.
 Compatibility
 -------------
 
+RDFlib 7.0.0 release and later only support Python 3.8.1 and newer.
+
 RDFlib 6.0.0 release and later only support Python 3.7 and newer.
 
 RDFLib 5.0.0 maintained compatibility with Python versions 2.7, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7.
diff --git a/docs/gettingstarted.rst b/docs/gettingstarted.rst
index ec6573766c..44307ae8a7 100644
--- a/docs/gettingstarted.rst
+++ b/docs/gettingstarted.rst
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ methods that search triples and return them in arbitrary order.
 
 RDFLib graphs also redefine certain built-in Python methods in order
 to behave in a predictable way. They do this by `emulating container types
-<https://docs.python.org/3.7/reference/datamodel.html#emulating-container-types>`_ and
+<https://docs.python.org/3.8/reference/datamodel.html#emulating-container-types>`_ and
 are best thought of as a set of 3-item tuples ("triples", in RDF-speak):
 
 .. code-block:: text
diff --git a/docs/upgrade6to7.rst b/docs/upgrade6to7.rst
index c8847adbf2..d58d257358 100644
--- a/docs/upgrade6to7.rst
+++ b/docs/upgrade6to7.rst
@@ -4,6 +4,11 @@
 Upgrading 6 to 7
 ============================================
 
+Python version
+----------------------------------------------------
+
+RDFLib 7 requires Python 3.8.1 or later.
+
 New behaviour for ``publicID`` in ``parse`` methods.
 ----------------------------------------------------
 
diff --git a/examples/secure_with_audit.py b/examples/secure_with_audit.py
index 434be5a498..f49ccd1645 100644
--- a/examples/secure_with_audit.py
+++ b/examples/secure_with_audit.py
@@ -61,15 +61,8 @@ def main() -> None:
         ),
     )
 
-    if sys.version_info < (3, 8):
-        logging.warn("This example requires Python 3.8 or higher")
-        return None
-
     # Install the audit hook
-    #
-    # note on type error: This is needed because we are running mypy with python
-    # 3.7 mode, so mypy thinks the previous condition will always be true.
-    sys.addaudithook(audit_hook)  # type: ignore[unreachable]
+    sys.addaudithook(audit_hook)
 
     graph = Graph()
 
diff --git a/poetry.lock b/poetry.lock
index eb42408211..d6bff90fc7 100644
--- a/poetry.lock
+++ b/poetry.lock
@@ -1,10 +1,9 @@
-# This file is automatically @generated by Poetry and should not be changed by hand.
+# This file is automatically @generated by Poetry 1.5.1 and should not be changed by hand.
 
 [[package]]
 name = "alabaster"
 version = "0.7.13"
 description = "A configurable sidebar-enabled Sphinx theme"
-category = "dev"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.6"
 files = [
@@ -16,7 +15,6 @@ files = [
 name = "babel"
 version = "2.12.1"
 description = "Internationalization utilities"
-category = "dev"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.7"
 files = [
@@ -31,7 +29,6 @@ pytz = {version = ">=2015.7", markers = "python_version < \"3.9\""}
 name = "berkeleydb"
 version = "18.1.6"
 description = "Python bindings for Oracle Berkeley DB"
-category = "main"
 optional = true
 python-versions = "*"
 files = [
@@ -42,7 +39,6 @@ files = [
 name = "black"
 version = "23.3.0"
 description = "The uncompromising code formatter."
-category = "dev"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.7"
 files = [
@@ -80,7 +76,6 @@ packaging = ">=22.0"
 pathspec = ">=0.9.0"
 platformdirs = ">=2"
 tomli = {version = ">=1.1.0", markers = "python_version < \"3.11\""}
-typed-ast = {version = ">=1.4.2", markers = "python_version < \"3.8\" and implementation_name == \"cpython\""}
 typing-extensions = {version = ">=3.10.0.0", markers = "python_version < \"3.10\""}
 
 [package.extras]
@@ -91,21 +86,19 @@ uvloop = ["uvloop (>=0.15.2)"]
 
 [[package]]
 name = "certifi"
-version = "2022.12.7"
+version = "2023.5.7"
 description = "Python package for providing Mozilla's CA Bundle."
-category = "dev"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.6"
 files = [
-    {file = "certifi-2022.12.7-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:4ad3232f5e926d6718ec31cfc1fcadfde020920e278684144551c91769c7bc18"},
-    {file = "certifi-2022.12.7.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:35824b4c3a97115964b408844d64aa14db1cc518f6562e8d7261699d1350a9e3"},
+    {file = "certifi-2023.5.7-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:c6c2e98f5c7869efca1f8916fed228dd91539f9f1b444c314c06eef02980c716"},
+    {file = "certifi-2023.5.7.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:0f0d56dc5a6ad56fd4ba36484d6cc34451e1c6548c61daad8c320169f91eddc7"},
 ]
 
 [[package]]
 name = "charset-normalizer"
 version = "3.1.0"
 description = "The Real First Universal Charset Detector. Open, modern and actively maintained alternative to Chardet."
-category = "dev"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.7.0"
 files = [
@@ -190,7 +183,6 @@ files = [
 name = "click"
 version = "8.1.3"
 description = "Composable command line interface toolkit"
-category = "dev"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.7"
 files = [
@@ -200,13 +192,11 @@ files = [
 
 [package.dependencies]
 colorama = {version = "*", markers = "platform_system == \"Windows\""}
-importlib-metadata = {version = "*", markers = "python_version < \"3.8\""}
 
 [[package]]
 name = "colorama"
 version = "0.4.6"
 description = "Cross-platform colored terminal text."
-category = "dev"
 optional = false
 python-versions = "!=3.0.*,!=3.1.*,!=3.2.*,!=3.3.*,!=3.4.*,!=3.5.*,!=3.6.*,>=2.7"
 files = [
@@ -218,7 +208,6 @@ files = [
 name = "coverage"
 version = "7.2.7"
 description = "Code coverage measurement for Python"
-category = "dev"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.7"
 files = [
@@ -294,7 +283,6 @@ toml = ["tomli"]
 name = "docutils"
 version = "0.19"
 description = "Docutils -- Python Documentation Utilities"
-category = "dev"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.7"
 files = [
@@ -306,7 +294,6 @@ files = [
 name = "entrypoints"
 version = "0.4"
 description = "Discover and load entry points from installed packages."
-category = "dev"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.6"
 files = [
@@ -318,7 +305,6 @@ files = [
 name = "exceptiongroup"
 version = "1.1.1"
 description = "Backport of PEP 654 (exception groups)"
-category = "dev"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.7"
 files = [
@@ -333,7 +319,6 @@ test = ["pytest (>=6)"]
 name = "flake8"
 version = "4.0.1"
 description = "the modular source code checker: pep8 pyflakes and co"
-category = "dev"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.6"
 files = [
@@ -350,7 +335,6 @@ pyflakes = ">=2.4.0,<2.5.0"
 name = "flakeheaven"
 version = "3.3.0"
 description = "FlakeHeaven is a [Flake8](https://gitlab.com/pycqa/flake8) wrapper to make it cool."
-category = "dev"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.7,<4.0"
 files = [
@@ -373,7 +357,6 @@ docs = ["alabaster", "myst-parser (>=0.18.0,<0.19.0)", "pygments-github-lexers",
 name = "html5lib"
 version = "1.1"
 description = "HTML parser based on the WHATWG HTML specification"
-category = "main"
 optional = true
 python-versions = ">=2.7, !=3.0.*, !=3.1.*, !=3.2.*, !=3.3.*, !=3.4.*"
 files = [
@@ -395,7 +378,6 @@ lxml = ["lxml"]
 name = "idna"
 version = "3.4"
 description = "Internationalized Domain Names in Applications (IDNA)"
-category = "dev"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.5"
 files = [
@@ -407,7 +389,6 @@ files = [
 name = "imagesize"
 version = "1.4.1"
 description = "Getting image size from png/jpeg/jpeg2000/gif file"
-category = "dev"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=2.7, !=3.0.*, !=3.1.*, !=3.2.*, !=3.3.*"
 files = [
@@ -419,7 +400,6 @@ files = [
 name = "importlib-metadata"
 version = "6.6.0"
 description = "Read metadata from Python packages"
-category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.7"
 files = [
@@ -428,7 +408,6 @@ files = [
 ]
 
 [package.dependencies]
-typing-extensions = {version = ">=3.6.4", markers = "python_version < \"3.8\""}
 zipp = ">=0.5"
 
 [package.extras]
@@ -440,7 +419,6 @@ testing = ["flake8 (<5)", "flufl.flake8", "importlib-resources (>=1.3)", "packag
 name = "iniconfig"
 version = "2.0.0"
 description = "brain-dead simple config-ini parsing"
-category = "dev"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.7"
 files = [
@@ -452,7 +430,6 @@ files = [
 name = "isodate"
 version = "0.6.1"
 description = "An ISO 8601 date/time/duration parser and formatter"
-category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = "*"
 files = [
@@ -465,18 +442,17 @@ six = "*"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "isort"
-version = "5.11.5"
+version = "5.12.0"
 description = "A Python utility / library to sort Python imports."
-category = "dev"
 optional = false
-python-versions = ">=3.7.0"
+python-versions = ">=3.8.0"
 files = [
-    {file = "isort-5.11.5-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:ba1d72fb2595a01c7895a5128f9585a5cc4b6d395f1c8d514989b9a7eb2a8746"},
-    {file = "isort-5.11.5.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:6be1f76a507cb2ecf16c7cf14a37e41609ca082330be4e3436a18ef74add55db"},
+    {file = "isort-5.12.0-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:f84c2818376e66cf843d497486ea8fed8700b340f308f076c6fb1229dff318b6"},
+    {file = "isort-5.12.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:8bef7dde241278824a6d83f44a544709b065191b95b6e50894bdc722fcba0504"},
 ]
 
 [package.extras]
-colors = ["colorama (>=0.4.3,<0.5.0)"]
+colors = ["colorama (>=0.4.3)"]
 pipfile-deprecated-finder = ["pip-shims (>=0.5.2)", "pipreqs", "requirementslib"]
 plugins = ["setuptools"]
 requirements-deprecated-finder = ["pip-api", "pipreqs"]
@@ -485,7 +461,6 @@ requirements-deprecated-finder = ["pip-api", "pipreqs"]
 name = "jinja2"
 version = "3.1.2"
 description = "A very fast and expressive template engine."
-category = "dev"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.7"
 files = [
@@ -503,7 +478,6 @@ i18n = ["Babel (>=2.7)"]
 name = "lxml"
 version = "4.9.2"
 description = "Powerful and Pythonic XML processing library combining libxml2/libxslt with the ElementTree API."
-category = "main"
 optional = true
 python-versions = ">=2.7, !=3.0.*, !=3.1.*, !=3.2.*, !=3.3.*, != 3.4.*"
 files = [
@@ -596,7 +570,6 @@ source = ["Cython (>=0.29.7)"]
 name = "lxml-stubs"
 version = "0.4.0"
 description = "Type annotations for the lxml package"
-category = "dev"
 optional = false
 python-versions = "*"
 files = [
@@ -611,7 +584,6 @@ test = ["coverage[toml] (==5.2)", "pytest (>=6.0.0)", "pytest-mypy-plugins (==1.
 name = "markdown-it-py"
 version = "2.2.0"
 description = "Python port of markdown-it. Markdown parsing, done right!"
-category = "dev"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.7"
 files = [
@@ -621,7 +593,6 @@ files = [
 
 [package.dependencies]
 mdurl = ">=0.1,<1.0"
-typing_extensions = {version = ">=3.7.4", markers = "python_version < \"3.8\""}
 
 [package.extras]
 benchmarking = ["psutil", "pytest", "pytest-benchmark"]
@@ -635,69 +606,67 @@ testing = ["coverage", "pytest", "pytest-cov", "pytest-regressions"]
 
 [[package]]
 name = "markupsafe"
-version = "2.1.2"
+version = "2.1.3"
 description = "Safely add untrusted strings to HTML/XML markup."
-category = "dev"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.7"
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 python-versions = ">=3.7"
 files = [
@@ -1406,26 +1295,25 @@ files = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "urllib3"
-version = "1.26.15"
+version = "2.0.3"
 description = "HTTP library with thread-safe connection pooling, file post, and more."
-category = "dev"
 optional = false
-python-versions = ">=2.7, !=3.0.*, !=3.1.*, !=3.2.*, !=3.3.*, !=3.4.*, !=3.5.*"
+python-versions = ">=3.7"
 files = [
-    {file = "urllib3-1.26.15-py2.py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:aa751d169e23c7479ce47a0cb0da579e3ede798f994f5816a74e4f4500dcea42"},
-    {file = "urllib3-1.26.15.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:8a388717b9476f934a21484e8c8e61875ab60644d29b9b39e11e4b9dc1c6b305"},
+    {file = "urllib3-2.0.3-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:48e7fafa40319d358848e1bc6809b208340fafe2096f1725d05d67443d0483d1"},
+    {file = "urllib3-2.0.3.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:bee28b5e56addb8226c96f7f13ac28cb4c301dd5ea8a6ca179c0b9835e032825"},
 ]
 
 [package.extras]
-brotli = ["brotli (>=1.0.9)", "brotlicffi (>=0.8.0)", "brotlipy (>=0.6.0)"]
-secure = ["certifi", "cryptography (>=1.3.4)", "idna (>=2.0.0)", "ipaddress", "pyOpenSSL (>=0.14)", "urllib3-secure-extra"]
-socks = ["PySocks (>=1.5.6,!=1.5.7,<2.0)"]
+brotli = ["brotli (>=1.0.9)", "brotlicffi (>=0.8.0)"]
+secure = ["certifi", "cryptography (>=1.9)", "idna (>=2.0.0)", "pyopenssl (>=17.1.0)", "urllib3-secure-extra"]
+socks = ["pysocks (>=1.5.6,!=1.5.7,<2.0)"]
+zstd = ["zstandard (>=0.18.0)"]
 
 [[package]]
 name = "webencodings"
 version = "0.5.1"
 description = "Character encoding aliases for legacy web content"
-category = "main"
 optional = true
 python-versions = "*"
 files = [
@@ -1437,7 +1325,6 @@ files = [
 name = "zipp"
 version = "3.15.0"
 description = "Backport of pathlib-compatible object wrapper for zip files"
-category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.7"
 files = [
@@ -1457,5 +1344,5 @@ networkx = ["networkx"]
 
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "2.0"
-python-versions = "^3.7"
-content-hash = "36084be60ae6a80f19b7aab7044c7c7d6fb11a304dae08992060f46f1c457213"
+python-versions = "^3.8.1"
+content-hash = "1c56b77bc9381ed73f90bdc11243e8fae40be3fe06aec26c74eef94937698017"
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 4d37e57c9d..23c51b12c2 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ license = "BSD-3-Clause"
 classifiers=[
     "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",
@@ -39,10 +38,9 @@ rdfs2dot = 'rdflib.tools.rdfs2dot:main'
 rdfgraphisomorphism = 'rdflib.tools.graphisomorphism:main'
 
 [tool.poetry.dependencies]
-python = "^3.7"
+python = "^3.8.1"
 isodate = "^0.6.0"
 pyparsing = ">=2.1.0,<4"
-importlib-metadata = {version = ">=4,<7", python = ">=3.7,<3.8"}
 berkeleydb = {version = "^18.1.0", optional = true}
 networkx = {version = "^2.0.0", optional = true}
 html5lib = {version = "^1.0", optional = true}
@@ -69,9 +67,9 @@ sphinx-autodoc-typehints = "^1.17.1"
 typing-extensions = "^4.5.0"
 
 [tool.poetry.group.flake8.dependencies]
-flake8 = {version = ">=4.0.1", python = ">=3.8"} # flakeheaven is incompatible with flake8 >=5.0 (https://github.com/flakeheaven/flakeheaven/issues/132)
-flakeheaven = {version = "^3.2.1", python = ">=3.8"}
-pep8-naming = {version = "^0.13.2", python = ">=3.8"}
+flake8 = {version = ">=4.0.1"} # flakeheaven is incompatible with flake8 >=5.0 (https://github.com/flakeheaven/flakeheaven/issues/132)
+flakeheaven = {version = "^3.2.1"}
+pep8-naming = {version = "^0.13.2"}
 
 [tool.poetry.extras]
 berkeleydb = ["berkeleydb"]
@@ -204,7 +202,7 @@ skip = [
 
 [tool.mypy]
 files = ['rdflib', 'test', 'devtools', 'examples']
-python_version = "3.7"
+python_version = "3.8"
 warn_unused_configs = true
 ignore_missing_imports = true
 disallow_subclassing_any = false
diff --git a/rdflib/__init__.py b/rdflib/__init__.py
index dc32be8ee4..4677e0a95b 100644
--- a/rdflib/__init__.py
+++ b/rdflib/__init__.py
@@ -44,12 +44,7 @@
 """
 import logging
 import sys
-
-if sys.version_info < (3, 8):
-    # importlib is only available in Python 3.8+; for 3.7 we must do this:
-    import importlib_metadata as metadata
-else:
-    from importlib import metadata
+from importlib import metadata
 
 _DISTRIBUTION_METADATA = metadata.metadata("rdflib")
 
diff --git a/rdflib/_type_checking.py b/rdflib/_type_checking.py
index ac6e2b8b89..c9e0202eae 100644
--- a/rdflib/_type_checking.py
+++ b/rdflib/_type_checking.py
@@ -14,18 +14,13 @@
     and this module is not part the the RDFLib public API.
 """
 
-import sys
-
 __all__ = [
     "_NamespaceSetString",
     "_MulPathMod",
 ]
 
 
-if sys.version_info >= (3, 8):
-    from typing import Literal as PyLiteral
-else:
-    from typing_extensions import Literal as PyLiteral
+from typing import Literal as PyLiteral
 
 _NamespaceSetString = PyLiteral["core", "rdflib", "none"]
 _MulPathMod = PyLiteral["*", "+", "?"]  # noqa: F722
diff --git a/rdflib/plugin.py b/rdflib/plugin.py
index 9d2f8540b2..676ffbaa8c 100644
--- a/rdflib/plugin.py
+++ b/rdflib/plugin.py
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 
 """
 
-import sys
+from importlib.metadata import EntryPoint, entry_points
 from typing import (
     TYPE_CHECKING,
     Any,
@@ -52,11 +52,6 @@
 from rdflib.serializer import Serializer
 from rdflib.store import Store
 
-if sys.version_info < (3, 8):
-    from importlib_metadata import EntryPoint, entry_points
-else:
-    from importlib.metadata import EntryPoint, entry_points
-
 __all__ = [
     "register",
     "get",
diff --git a/rdflib/plugins/sparql/__init__.py b/rdflib/plugins/sparql/__init__.py
index 011b7b5919..a11a6e0044 100644
--- a/rdflib/plugins/sparql/__init__.py
+++ b/rdflib/plugins/sparql/__init__.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 .. versionadded:: 4.0
 """
 
-import sys
+from importlib.metadata import entry_points
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING
 
 SPARQL_LOAD_GRAPHS = True
@@ -40,10 +40,6 @@
 assert operators
 assert parserutils
 
-if sys.version_info < (3, 8):
-    from importlib_metadata import entry_points
-else:
-    from importlib.metadata import entry_points
 
 all_entry_points = entry_points()
 if hasattr(all_entry_points, "select"):
diff --git a/test/conftest.py b/test/conftest.py
index 38f4dabc15..01153f9fa7 100644
--- a/test/conftest.py
+++ b/test/conftest.py
@@ -85,13 +85,10 @@ def function_httpmocks(
 
 
 @pytest.fixture(scope="session", autouse=True)
-def audit_hook_dispatcher() -> Generator[Optional[AuditHookDispatcher], None, None]:
-    if sys.version_info >= (3, 8):
-        dispatcher = AuditHookDispatcher()
-        sys.addaudithook(dispatcher.audit)
-        yield dispatcher
-    else:
-        yield None
+def audit_hook_dispatcher() -> Generator[AuditHookDispatcher, None, None]:
+    dispatcher = AuditHookDispatcher()
+    sys.addaudithook(dispatcher.audit)
+    yield dispatcher
 
 
 @pytest.fixture(scope="function")
diff --git a/test/test_misc/test_security.py b/test/test_misc/test_security.py
index b4c8fc229a..652de6e733 100644
--- a/test/test_misc/test_security.py
+++ b/test/test_misc/test_security.py
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 from test.utils.httpfileserver import HTTPFileServer, ProtoFileResource
 from test.utils.urlopen import context_urlopener
 from textwrap import dedent
-from typing import Any, Iterable, Optional, Tuple
+from typing import Any, Iterable, Tuple
 from urllib.request import HTTPHandler, OpenerDirector, Request
 
 import pytest
@@ -74,17 +74,12 @@ def generate_make_block_file_cases() -> Iterable[ParameterSet]:
 @pytest.mark.parametrize(["defence", "uri_kind"], generate_make_block_file_cases())
 def test_block_file(
     tmp_path: Path,
-    audit_hook_dispatcher: Optional[AuditHookDispatcher],
+    audit_hook_dispatcher: AuditHookDispatcher,
     http_file_server: HTTPFileServer,
     exit_stack: ExitStack,
     defence: Defence,
     uri_kind: URIKind,
 ) -> None:
-    if audit_hook_dispatcher is None:
-        pytest.skip(
-            "audit hook dispatcher not available, likely because of Python version"
-        )
-
     context_file = tmp_path / "context.jsonld"
     context_file.write_text(dedent(JSONLD_CONTEXT))
     context_file_served = http_file_server.add_file_with_caching(