diff --git a/.github/workflows/test-only.yml b/.github/workflows/test-only.yml
index f7b3def0f..1185d889c 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/test-only.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/test-only.yml
@@ -103,15 +103,6 @@ jobs:
               sys.exit(1)
           PYEOF
 
-  test-application-3-10:
-    # Only run on push to master (including PR merges)
-    if: github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master'
-    needs: [lint-code, lint-translations, lint-template-i18n]
-    uses: ./.github/workflows/test-stack-reusable-workflow.yml
-    with:
-      python-version: '3.10'
-
-
   test-application-3-11:
     # Always run
     needs: [lint-code, lint-translations, lint-template-i18n]
diff --git a/.ruff.toml b/.ruff.toml
index 259be2fb4..04b7adf33 100644
--- a/.ruff.toml
+++ b/.ruff.toml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # Minimum supported version
-target-version = "py310"
+target-version = "py311"
 
 # Formatting options
 line-length = 100
diff --git a/changedetectionio/tests/conftest.py b/changedetectionio/tests/conftest.py
index 8972ba8ed..0daa461de 100644
--- a/changedetectionio/tests/conftest.py
+++ b/changedetectionio/tests/conftest.py
@@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ def pytest_configure(config):
     LiveServer uses nested functions that can't be pickled.
 
     Setting 'fork' explicitly:
-    - Maintains compatibility with Python 3.10-3.13 (where 'fork' was already default)
+    - Maintains compatibility with Python 3.11-3.13 (where 'fork' was already default)
     - Fixes Python 3.14 pickling errors
     - Only affects Unix-like systems (Windows uses 'spawn' regardless)
 
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 448da6c46..8921e2e75 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ price-parser
 
 # Lightweight MIME type detection (saves ~14MB memory vs python-magic/libmagic)
 # Used for detecting correct favicon type and content-type detection
-puremagic<2.0  # 2.x requires Python >=3.12; unpin once 3.10/3.11 support is dropped
+puremagic<2.0  # 2.x requires Python >=3.12; unpin once 3.11 support is dropped
 
 # Scheduler - Windows seemed to miss a lot of default timezone info (even "UTC" !)
 tzdata
@@ -147,7 +147,10 @@ tzdata
 pluggy ~= 1.6
 
 # LLM intent-based change evaluation (multi-provider via litellm)
-litellm>=1.40.0  # Uncapped: litellm now uses jsonschema<5.0,>=4.0.0, resolving earlier openapi-spec-validator conflict
+# Uncapped: litellm now uses jsonschema<5.0,>=4.0.0, resolving earlier openapi-spec-validator conflict.
+# Note litellm >=1.83.11 does `from typing import NotRequired`, which is 3.11+ (PEP 655) - that is
+# why 3.10 support was dropped rather than pinning everyone to the last 3.10-compatible release.
+litellm>=1.40.0
 # Used today for LLMSettings (model/LLMSettings.py); transitively pulled by litellm but pinned explicitly
 # so the validation/typing layer doesn't disappear if litellm drops it.
 pydantic>=2.0,<3.0
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 96dc4a086..caac094dd 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ setup(
     install_requires=install_requires,
     cmdclass={'build_py': BuildPyCommand},
     license="Apache License 2.0",
-    python_requires=">= 3.10",
+    python_requires=">= 3.11",
     classifiers=['Intended Audience :: Customer Service',
                  'Intended Audience :: Developers',
                  'Intended Audience :: Education',