diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 9da98f71d..8aa62c6cf 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -14,10 +14,10 @@ classifiers = [
     "Intended Audience :: Developers",
     "Intended Audience :: Education",
     "Operating System :: Linux",
-    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12",
     "Topic :: Scientific/Engineering :: Artificial Intelligence for Inference Accelerator",
 ]
-requires-python = ">=3.8,<3.11"
+requires-python = ">=3.8,<3.13"
 dependencies = [
     "transformers==4.55.0",
     "diffusers== 0.35.1",
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@ dependencies = [
     "peft==0.17.0",
     "datasets==2.20.0",
     "fsspec==2023.6.0",
-    "multidict==6.0.4",
     "urllib3<2",
     "sentencepiece==0.2.0",
     "onnx==1.18.0",
@@ -48,8 +47,10 @@ dependencies = [
     "torch@https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu/torch-2.4.1%2Bcpu-cp38-cp38-linux_x86_64.whl ; python_version=='3.8' and platform_machine=='x86_64'",
     "torch@https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu/torch-2.7.0%2Bcpu-cp39-cp39-manylinux_2_28_x86_64.whl ; python_version=='3.9' and platform_machine=='x86_64'",
     "torch@https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu/torch-2.7.0%2Bcpu-cp310-cp310-manylinux_2_28_x86_64.whl ; python_version=='3.10' and platform_machine=='x86_64'",
+    "torch@https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu/torch-2.7.0%2Bcpu-cp312-cp312-manylinux_2_28_x86_64.whl ; python_version=='3.12' and platform_machine=='x86_64'",
     "torchvision@https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu/torchvision-0.22.0%2Bcpu-cp39-cp39-manylinux_2_28_x86_64.whl ; python_version=='3.9' and platform_machine=='x86_64'",
     "torchvision@https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu/torchvision-0.22.0%2Bcpu-cp310-cp310-manylinux_2_28_x86_64.whl ; python_version=='3.10' and platform_machine=='x86_64'",
+    "torchvision@https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu/torchvision-0.22.0%2Bcpu-cp312-cp312-manylinux_2_28_x86_64.whl ; python_version=='3.12' and platform_machine=='x86_64'",
 ]
 
 [project.optional-dependencies]
diff --git a/scripts/Jenkinsfile b/scripts/Jenkinsfile
index 3420c025b..c0225aadd 100644
--- a/scripts/Jenkinsfile
+++ b/scripts/Jenkinsfile
@@ -17,11 +17,12 @@ pipeline {
                    sudo docker exec ${BUILD_TAG} bash -c "
                    cd /efficient-transformers &&
                    apt update &&
-                   apt install -y python3.10-venv &&
-                   python3.10 -m venv preflight_qeff &&
+                   DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt install -y tzdata python3.12-venv python3.12-dev build-essential &&
+                   python3.12 -m venv preflight_qeff &&
                    . preflight_qeff/bin/activate &&
                    pip install --upgrade pip setuptools &&
                    pip install .[test] &&
+                   pip install .[diffusers] &&
                    pip install junitparser pytest-xdist &&
                    pip install librosa==0.10.2 soundfile==0.13.1 && #packages needed to load example for whisper testing
                    pip install --extra-index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu timm==1.0.14 torchvision==0.22.0+cpu einops==0.8.1 && #packages to load VLMs