diff --git a/CHANGES.rst b/CHANGES.rst
index c58377b9..e2ec4fbc 100644
--- a/CHANGES.rst
+++ b/CHANGES.rst
@@ -4,6 +4,10 @@
 General
 -------
 
+- The minimum required Astropy is now 7.0. [#708]
+
+- The minimum required Matplotlib is now 3.10. [#708]
+
 New Features
 ------------
 
diff --git a/docs/getting_started/install.rst b/docs/getting_started/install.rst
index 38647943..8201805d 100644
--- a/docs/getting_started/install.rst
+++ b/docs/getting_started/install.rst
@@ -11,11 +11,11 @@ Regions has the following strict requirements:
 
 * `NumPy <https://numpy.org/>`_ 2.0 or later
 
-* `Astropy`_ 6.1.7 or later
+* `Astropy`_ 7.0 or later
 
 Region also optionally depends on other packages for some features:
 
-* `Matplotlib <https://matplotlib.org/>`_ 3.9 or later
+* `Matplotlib <https://matplotlib.org/>`_ 3.10 or later
 
 
 Installing the latest released version
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 63dce710..e2286a61 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ classifiers = [
 dynamic = ['version']
 requires-python = '>=3.11'
 dependencies = [
-    'astropy >= 6.1.7',
+    'astropy >= 7.0',
     'numpy >= 2.0',
 ]
 
@@ -35,21 +35,21 @@ Documentation = 'https://astropy-regions.readthedocs.io/en/stable/'
 
 [project.optional-dependencies]
 all = [
-    'matplotlib >= 3.9',
+    'matplotlib >= 3.10',
     'shapely >= 2.1',
 ]
 test = [
     'gwcs >= 0.22',
     'pytest-arraydiff >= 0.6.1',
-    'pytest-astropy >= 0.11',
+    'pytest-astropy >= 0.12',
     'pytest-xdist >= 3.7',
-    'tox >= 4.16',
+    'tox >= 4.18',
 ]
 docs = [
     'regions[all]',
     'sphinx >= 8.2',  # keep in sync with docs/conf.py
     'sphinx-astropy[confv3] >= 1.11',
-    'sphinx_design >= 0.6',
+    'sphinx_design >= 0.7',
 ]
 dev = [
     'pre-commit >= 4.0',