diff --git a/HISTORY.md b/HISTORY.md
index a48ad88b..804c6b30 100644
--- a/HISTORY.md
+++ b/HISTORY.md
@@ -1,6 +1,32 @@
 Release History
 ---------------
 
+## 0.7.0 (2024-01-17)
+
+### Special Notes
+
+- Update Mesa dependency to v2.2
+- The pinning of Mesa is now on the major version, instead of the minor version. This means that Mesa-Geo v0.7.0 will work with Mesa v2.2, v2.3, v2.4, etc. but not with Mesa v3.0 or later.
+
+### 🛠 Enhancements made
+
+* create and update rtree spatial index only when needed by @wang-boyu in https://github.com/projectmesa/mesa-geo/pull/179
+
+### 🔧 Maintenance
+
+* fix link to examples by @wang-boyu in https://github.com/projectmesa/mesa-geo/pull/167
+* Correct link to GeoSchelling example and update copyright string by @Holzhauer in https://github.com/projectmesa/mesa-geo/pull/175
+* fix rtd build error and upgrade to python 3.9 by @wang-boyu in https://github.com/projectmesa/mesa-geo/pull/176
+* update pre-commit and ga workflows to be consistent with mesa by @wang-boyu in https://github.com/projectmesa/mesa-geo/pull/181
+* add config file to automatically generate release notes by @wang-boyu in https://github.com/projectmesa/mesa-geo/pull/184
+* update ga workflows to be consistent with mesa by @wang-boyu in https://github.com/projectmesa/mesa-geo/pull/185
+
+## New Contributors
+
+* @Holzhauer made their first contribution in https://github.com/projectmesa/mesa-geo/pull/175
+
+**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/projectmesa/mesa-geo/compare/v0.6.0...v0.7.0
+
 ## 0.6.0 (2023-09-13)
 
 ### Special Notes
diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
index 69de56d2..292b5508 100644
--- a/docs/conf.py
+++ b/docs/conf.py
@@ -66,9 +66,9 @@
 # built documents.
 #
 # The short X.Y version.
-version = "0.6.0"
+version = "0.7.0"
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
-release = "0.6.0"
+release = "0.7.0"
 
 # The language for content autogenerated by Sphinx. Refer to documentation
 # for a list of supported languages.
diff --git a/mesa_geo/__init__.py b/mesa_geo/__init__.py
index 2b2fb38c..3fecc6d6 100644
--- a/mesa_geo/__init__.py
+++ b/mesa_geo/__init__.py
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 ]
 
 __title__ = "Mesa-Geo"
-__version__ = "0.6.0"
+__version__ = "0.7.0"
 __license__ = "Apache 2.0"
 _this_year = datetime.datetime.now(tz=datetime.timezone.utc).date().year
 __copyright__ = f"Copyright {_this_year} Project Mesa-Geo Team"
diff --git a/mesa_geo/raster_layers.py b/mesa_geo/raster_layers.py
index 9ccb2238..8bf077e6 100644
--- a/mesa_geo/raster_layers.py
+++ b/mesa_geo/raster_layers.py
@@ -9,14 +9,8 @@
 import itertools
 import math
 import uuid
-from typing import (
-    Any,
-    Iterable,
-    Iterator,
-    Sequence,
-    cast,
-    overload,
-)
+from collections.abc import Iterable, Iterator, Sequence
+from typing import Any, cast, overload
 
 import numpy as np
 import rasterio as rio
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 1252b212..a17770b2 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 requires = [
     "setuptools",
     "wheel",
-    "mesa~=2.1.0",
+    "mesa~=2.2",
 ]
 build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 
@@ -54,5 +54,5 @@ extend-ignore = [
     "ISC001",  # ruff format asks to disable this feature
 ]
 extend-exclude = ["docs", "build"]
-# Hardcode to Python 3.8.
-target-version = "py38"
\ No newline at end of file
+# Hardcode to Python 3.9.
+target-version = "py39"
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index 45028137..4af7ad02 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ classifiers =
     Natural Language :: English
 
 [options]
-python_requires = >=3.8
+python_requires = >=3.9
 packages = find:
 include_package_data = True
 install_requires =