diff --git a/.github/workflows/superset-e2e.yml b/.github/workflows/superset-e2e.yml
index ab0d61bf3469a..bc47d6a17752f 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/superset-e2e.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/superset-e2e.yml
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ jobs:
         if: steps.check.outcome == 'failure'
         uses: actions/setup-python@v2
         with:
-          python-version: "3.7"
+          python-version: "3.8"
       - name: OS dependencies
         if: steps.check.outcome == 'failure'
         uses: ./.github/actions/cached-dependencies
diff --git a/.github/workflows/superset-helm-lint.yml b/.github/workflows/superset-helm-lint.yml
index 272b7c91bccb7..a7f83f561ac25 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/superset-helm-lint.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/superset-helm-lint.yml
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ jobs:
 
       - uses: actions/setup-python@v2
         with:
-          python-version: 3.7
+          python-version: 3.8
 
       - name: Set up chart-testing
         uses: ./.github/actions/chart-testing-action
diff --git a/.github/workflows/superset-python-integrationtest.yml b/.github/workflows/superset-python-integrationtest.yml
index c006d22424ce8..43ef9e7d2e129 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/superset-python-integrationtest.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/superset-python-integrationtest.yml
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        python-version: [3.7]
+        python-version: [3.8]
     env:
       PYTHONPATH: ${{ github.workspace }}
       SUPERSET_CONFIG: tests.integration_tests.superset_test_config
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        python-version: [3.7, 3.8]
+        python-version: [3.8, 3.9]
     env:
       PYTHONPATH: ${{ github.workspace }}
       SUPERSET_CONFIG: tests.integration_tests.superset_test_config
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        python-version: [3.7]
+        python-version: [3.8]
     env:
       PYTHONPATH: ${{ github.workspace }}
       SUPERSET_CONFIG: tests.integration_tests.superset_test_config
diff --git a/.github/workflows/superset-python-misc.yml b/.github/workflows/superset-python-misc.yml
index fb365cac1dbf8..9804ef209d755 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/superset-python-misc.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/superset-python-misc.yml
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        python-version: [3.7]
+        python-version: [3.8]
     steps:
       - name: "Checkout ${{ github.ref }} ( ${{ github.sha }} )"
         uses: actions/checkout@v2
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        python-version: [3.7]
+        python-version: [3.8]
     steps:
       - name: "Checkout ${{ github.ref }} ( ${{ github.sha }} )"
         uses: actions/checkout@v2
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        python-version: [3.7]
+        python-version: [3.8]
     steps:
       - name: "Checkout ${{ github.ref }} ( ${{ github.sha }} )"
         uses: actions/checkout@v2
diff --git a/.github/workflows/superset-python-unittest.yml b/.github/workflows/superset-python-unittest.yml
index 69f96bcb9b779..8a64f092cb997 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/superset-python-unittest.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/superset-python-unittest.yml
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        python-version: [3.7,3.8]
+        python-version: [3.8, 3.9]
     env:
       PYTHONPATH: ${{ github.workspace }}
     steps:
diff --git a/.github/workflows/superset-translations.yml b/.github/workflows/superset-translations.yml
index 029c914cf1fc4..93fe58b62378c 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/superset-translations.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/superset-translations.yml
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        python-version: [3.7]
+        python-version: [3.8]
     steps:
       - name: "Checkout ${{ github.ref }} ( ${{ github.sha }} )"
         uses: actions/checkout@v2
diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 8244f16a11543..211ea55caad6d 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 ######################################################################
 # PY stage that simply does a pip install on our requirements
 ######################################################################
-ARG PY_VER=3.7.9
+ARG PY_VER=3.8.12
 FROM python:${PY_VER} AS superset-py
 
 RUN mkdir /app \
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ RUN cd /app/superset-frontend \
 ######################################################################
 # Final lean image...
 ######################################################################
-ARG PY_VER=3.7.9
+ARG PY_VER=3.8.12
 FROM python:${PY_VER} AS lean
 
 ENV LANG=C.UTF-8 \
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ RUN mkdir -p ${PYTHONPATH} \
             libpq-dev \
         && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
 
-COPY --from=superset-py /usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/ /usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/
+COPY --from=superset-py /usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/ /usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/
 # Copying site-packages doesn't move the CLIs, so let's copy them one by one
 COPY --from=superset-py /usr/local/bin/gunicorn /usr/local/bin/celery /usr/local/bin/flask /usr/bin/
 COPY --from=superset-node /app/superset/static/assets /app/superset/static/assets
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 7593a282dc3d6..a7066bdccee67 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -15,8 +15,8 @@
 # limitations under the License.
 #
 
-# Python version installed; we need 3.8 or 3.7
-PYTHON=`command -v python3.8 || command -v python3.7`
+# Python version installed; we need 3.7-3.9
+PYTHON=`command -v python3.9 || command -v python3.8 || command -v python3.7`
 
 .PHONY: install superset venv pre-commit
 
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ update-js:
 
 venv:
 	# Create a virtual environment and activate it (recommended)
-	if ! [ -x "${PYTHON}" ]; then echo "You need Python 3.7 or 3.8 installed"; exit 1; fi
+	if ! [ -x "${PYTHON}" ]; then echo "You need Python 3.7, 3.8 or 3.9 installed"; exit 1; fi
 	test -d venv || ${PYTHON} -m venv venv # setup a python3 virtualenv
 	. venv/bin/activate
 
diff --git a/RELEASING/Dockerfile.from_local_tarball b/RELEASING/Dockerfile.from_local_tarball
index affb4d885dc64..be08d6fb951fc 100644
--- a/RELEASING/Dockerfile.from_local_tarball
+++ b/RELEASING/Dockerfile.from_local_tarball
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 # limitations under the License.
 #
-FROM python:3.7-buster
+FROM python:3.8-buster
 
 RUN useradd --user-group --create-home --no-log-init --shell /bin/bash superset
 
diff --git a/RELEASING/Dockerfile.from_svn_tarball b/RELEASING/Dockerfile.from_svn_tarball
index 3194ea53d7c68..5f9bde9c3f9ba 100644
--- a/RELEASING/Dockerfile.from_svn_tarball
+++ b/RELEASING/Dockerfile.from_svn_tarball
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 # limitations under the License.
 #
-FROM python:3.7-buster
+FROM python:3.8-buster
 
 RUN useradd --user-group --create-home --no-log-init --shell /bin/bash superset
 
diff --git a/RELEASING/Dockerfile.make_docs b/RELEASING/Dockerfile.make_docs
index 1bbaa30942646..edb9c775694a1 100644
--- a/RELEASING/Dockerfile.make_docs
+++ b/RELEASING/Dockerfile.make_docs
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 # limitations under the License.
 #
-FROM python:3.7-buster
+FROM python:3.8-buster
 ARG VERSION
 
 RUN git clone --depth 1 --branch ${VERSION} https://github.com/apache/superset.git /superset
diff --git a/RELEASING/Dockerfile.make_tarball b/RELEASING/Dockerfile.make_tarball
index 49e3fc3fba64c..3e50eb41a9926 100644
--- a/RELEASING/Dockerfile.make_tarball
+++ b/RELEASING/Dockerfile.make_tarball
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 # limitations under the License.
 #
-FROM python:3.7-buster
+FROM python:3.8-buster
 
 RUN apt-get update -y
 RUN apt-get install -y jq
diff --git a/docs/src/pages/docs/installation/installing_scratch.mdx b/docs/src/pages/docs/installation/installing_scratch.mdx
index 2fb1b7a814eaf..7ea1f320202fb 100644
--- a/docs/src/pages/docs/installation/installing_scratch.mdx
+++ b/docs/src/pages/docs/installation/installing_scratch.mdx
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ We don't recommend using the system installed Python. Instead, first install the
 brew install readline pkg-config libffi openssl mysql postgres
 ```
 
-You should install a recent version of Python (Superset uses 3.7.9). We'd recommend using a Python version manager like [pyenv](https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv) (and also [pyenv-virtualenv](https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv-virtualenv)).
+You should install a recent version of Python (the official docker image uses 3.8.12). We'd recommend using a Python version manager like [pyenv](https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv) (and also [pyenv-virtualenv](https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv-virtualenv)).
 
 Let's also make sure we have the latest version of `pip` and `setuptools`:
 
diff --git a/requirements/base.txt b/requirements/base.txt
index cbbc55f7295e8..3d24d52724b5d 100644
--- a/requirements/base.txt
+++ b/requirements/base.txt
@@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ sqlalchemy==1.3.24
     #   flask-sqlalchemy
     #   marshmallow-sqlalchemy
     #   sqlalchemy-utils
-sqlalchemy-utils==0.36.8
+sqlalchemy-utils==0.37.8
     # via
     #   apache-superset
     #   flask-appbuilder
diff --git a/requirements/development.in b/requirements/development.in
index db2162341dace..d53e0509f54c8 100644
--- a/requirements/development.in
+++ b/requirements/development.in
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 -r base.in
 flask-cors>=2.0.0
 mysqlclient==1.4.2.post1
-pillow>=7.0.0,<8.0.0
+pillow>=8.3.1,<9
 pydruid>=0.6.1,<0.7
 pyhive[hive]>=0.6.1
 psycopg2-binary==2.8.5
diff --git a/requirements/development.txt b/requirements/development.txt
index 82133b43a320b..3a62a283865a7 100644
--- a/requirements/development.txt
+++ b/requirements/development.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# SHA1:e4f3ea65026a8aec3735d6d9977f89fef4a1a4f9
+# SHA1:dbd3e93a11a36fc6b18d6194ac96ba29bd0ad2a8
 #
 # This file is autogenerated by pip-compile-multi
 # To update, run:
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ mysqlclient==1.4.2.post1
     # via -r requirements/development.in
 openpyxl==3.0.7
     # via tabulator
-pillow==7.2.0
+pillow==8.3.1
     # via -r requirements/development.in
 progress==1.6
     # via -r requirements/development.in
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 7baf6480985ca..abf514312db30 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ def get_git_sha() -> str:
         "simplejson>=3.15.0",
         "slackclient==2.5.0",  # PINNED! slack changes file upload api in the future versions
         "sqlalchemy>=1.3.16, <1.4, !=1.3.21",
-        "sqlalchemy-utils>=0.36.6, <0.37",
+        "sqlalchemy-utils>=0.37.8, <0.38",
         "sqlparse==0.3.0",  # PINNED! see https://github.com/andialbrecht/sqlparse/issues/562
         "tabulate==0.8.9",
         "typing-extensions>=3.10, <4",  # needed to support Literal (3.8) and TypeGuard (3.10)
@@ -169,5 +169,6 @@ def get_git_sha() -> str:
     classifiers=[
         "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.7",
         "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8",
+        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9",
     ],
 )
diff --git a/superset/utils/memoized.py b/superset/utils/memoized.py
index 916984c9b8c22..153542fbb7b16 100644
--- a/superset/utils/memoized.py
+++ b/superset/utils/memoized.py
@@ -64,7 +64,9 @@ def __get__(
         if not self.is_method:
             self.is_method = True
         # Support instance methods.
-        return functools.partial(self.__call__, obj)
+        func = functools.partial(self.__call__, obj)
+        func.__func__ = self.func  # type: ignore
+        return func
 
 
 def memoized(