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 _You only need these instructions if you do not want to use devcontainers._
 
-It is also possible to set up a more traditional development environment. See the section for your operating system. Make sure your Python version is 3.8 or later.
+It is also possible to set up a more traditional development environment. See the section for your operating system. Make sure your Python version is 3.9 or later.
 
 ### Developing on Linux