diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 911d9a094b..15dd0ae679 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ These instructions will help you get set up with a local development environment
 
 ### Prerequisites
 
-Before the project can be built, you must first install the [.NET 7.0 SDK](https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download/dotnet) on your system.
+Before the project can be built, you must first install the [.NET 8.0 SDK](https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download/dotnet) on your system.
 
 Instructions to run this project from the command line are included here, but you will also need to install an IDE if you want to debug the server while it is running. Any IDE that supports .NET 6 development will work, but two options are recent versions of [Visual Studio](https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/) (at least 2022) and [Visual Studio Code](https://code.visualstudio.com/Download).
 
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 0b9dd570e4..5e0460de9e 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Section: misc
 Priority: optional
 Maintainer: Jellyfin Team <team@jellyfin.org>
 Build-Depends:  debhelper (>= 9),
-                dotnet-sdk-7.0,
+                dotnet-sdk-8.0,
                 libc6-dev,
                 libcurl4-openssl-dev,
                 libfontconfig1-dev,
diff --git a/fedora/jellyfin.spec b/fedora/jellyfin.spec
index c56a189ce9..fb9fb2f7da 100644
--- a/fedora/jellyfin.spec
+++ b/fedora/jellyfin.spec
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ BuildRequires:  systemd
 BuildRequires:  libcurl-devel, fontconfig-devel, freetype-devel, openssl-devel, glibc-devel, libicu-devel
 # Requirements not packaged in RHEL 7 main repos, added via Makefile
 # https://packages.microsoft.com/rhel/7/prod/
-BuildRequires:  dotnet-runtime-7.0, dotnet-sdk-7.0
+BuildRequires:  dotnet-runtime-8.0, dotnet-sdk-8.0
 Requires: %{name}-server = %{version}-%{release}, %{name}-web = %{version}-%{release}
 
 # Temporary (hopefully?) fix for https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/issues/7471