diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index fc1daf5f..04159342 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
-        python_version: ['3.11']
+        python_version: ['3.11', '3.12']
         ubuntu_version: ['22.04', '24.04']
         tox_env: [ "django42", "django52"]
         include:
diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index c55ac2c8..fb4b1ce7 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ ENV TZ=Etc/UTC
 ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
 RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y software-properties-common
 RUN add-apt-repository -y ppa:deadsnakes/ppa && apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -y
-RUN apt-get install -y vim python${python_version} python${python_version}-dev python${python_version}-distutils
+RUN apt-get install -y vim python${python_version} python${python_version}-dev
 RUN apt-get install -y sudo git make curl build-essential
 RUN curl -sS https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py | python${python_version}
 RUN pip install virtualenv
diff --git a/codejail/__init__.py b/codejail/__init__.py
index b39c74e2..0e12136b 100644
--- a/codejail/__init__.py
+++ b/codejail/__init__.py
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 """init"""
 
-__version__ = '3.5.2'
+__version__ = '4.0.0'
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 91c1c46a..6c44675f 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ def get_version(*file_paths):
         "Intended Audience :: Developers",
         'Programming Language :: Python',
         'Programming Language :: Python :: 3',
-        'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8',
         'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11',
+        'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12',
     ],
 )
diff --git a/sudoers-file/01-sandbox-python-3.12 b/sudoers-file/01-sandbox-python-3.12
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..d5fe0ffe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sudoers-file/01-sandbox-python-3.12
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+ubuntu ALL=(sandbox) SETENV:NOPASSWD:/home/sandbox/codejail_sandbox-python3.12/bin/python
+ubuntu ALL=(sandbox) SETENV:NOPASSWD:/usr/bin/find
+ubuntu ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:/usr/bin/pkill
+
+Defaults!/home/sandbox/codejail_sandbox-python3.12/bin/python !requiretty
+Defaults!/usr/bin/find !requiretty
+Defaults!/usr/bin/pkill !requiretty