diff --git a/docker/Dockerfile b/docker/Dockerfile
index 0520bc8d..cfd1f639 100644
--- a/docker/Dockerfile
+++ b/docker/Dockerfile
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-FROM python:3.10-slim-buster as builder
+FROM python:3.11-slim-buster as builder
 
 COPY requirements.txt requirements-test.txt ./
 
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ RUN python -m spacy download en_core_web_sm --prefix=/requirements
 # download nltk resources
 RUN python -m nltk.downloader wordnet punkt omw-1.4
 
-FROM python:3.10-slim-buster
+FROM python:3.11-slim-buster
 
 RUN apt-get update && apt-get install --no-install-recommends --yes \
     curl \