diff --git a/HISTORY.md b/HISTORY.md
index f48ce675bf..121ee4cb59 100644
--- a/HISTORY.md
+++ b/HISTORY.md
@@ -1,3 +1,21 @@
+# Release 0.29.0
+
+* TileDB-Py 0.29.0 includes TileDB Embedded [2.23.0](https://github.com/TileDB-Inc/TileDB/releases/tag/2.23.0)
+
+## Improvements
+
+* Add wrapping for ls_recursive by @kounelisagis in https://github.com/TileDB-Inc/TileDB-Py/pull/1933
+* Migrate away from deprecated TileDB C++ APIs by @kounelisagis in https://github.com/TileDB-Inc/TileDB-Py/pull/1958
+* Pybind11 Config should honor prefix for iter by @Shelnutt2 in https://github.com/TileDB-Inc/TileDB-Py/pull/1962
+* Fix test skipping by @kounelisagis in https://github.com/TileDB-Inc/TileDB-Py/pull/1957
+* Make timestamp overrides optional in tests and add faketime test by @kounelisagis in https://github.com/TileDB-Inc/TileDB-Py/pull/1953
+* Wrap tiledb_array_consolidate_fragments from pybind11 by @kounelisagis in https://github.com/TileDB-Inc/TileDB-Py/pull/1948
+
+## Build system changes
+
+* Enable python 3.12 by @dudoslav in https://github.com/TileDB-Inc/TileDB-Py/pull/1959
+* Add .vscode to .gitignore by @kounelisagis in https://github.com/TileDB-Inc/TileDB-Py/pull/1952
+
 # Release 0.28.0
 
 ## TileDB Embedded updates
diff --git a/misc/azure-release.yml b/misc/azure-release.yml
index a0c0fe7d2c..b884b89983 100644
--- a/misc/azure-release.yml
+++ b/misc/azure-release.yml
@@ -6,11 +6,11 @@ stages:
         LIBTILEDB_VERSION: dev
         LIBTILEDB_SHA: dev
       ${{ else }}:
-        TILEDBPY_VERSION: 0.28.0
+        TILEDBPY_VERSION: 0.29.0
         # NOTE: *must* update both LIBTILEDB_VERSION and LIBTILEDB_SHA
-        LIBTILEDB_VERSION: "2.22.0"
+        LIBTILEDB_VERSION: "2.23.0"
         # NOTE: *must* update both LIBTILEDB_VERSION and LIBTILEDB_SHA
-        LIBTILEDB_SHA: 52e981ee9ce92eaceaf13a79a5a95820eca0673b
+        LIBTILEDB_SHA: 152093bed1f25f219fc91f31456c26b04a67dd63
       LIBTILEDB_REPO: https://github.com/TileDB-Inc/TileDB
       TILEDB_SRC: "$(Build.Repository.Localpath)/tiledb_src"
       TILEDB_BUILD: "$(Build.Repository.Localpath)/tiledb_build"
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index c9b9fb8333..23a282ffa3 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
 [build-system]
-requires = ["setuptools>=42", "wheel", "pybind11", "Cython"]
+requires = ["setuptools>=64", "wheel", "pybind11", "Cython"]
 build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 
 [project]
+requires-python = ">=3.8"
 name = "tiledb"
 description = "Pythonic interface to the TileDB array storage manager"
 readme = "README.md"
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index a9ae3800af..99a119e4c5 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 # - this is for builds-from-source
 # - release builds are controlled by `misc/azure-release.yml`
 # - this should be set to the current core release, not `dev`
-TILEDB_VERSION = "2.22.0"
+TILEDB_VERSION = "2.23.0"
 
 # allow overriding w/ environment variable
 TILEDB_VERSION = (