diff --git a/.github/workflows/kedro-datasets.yml b/.github/workflows/kedro-datasets.yml
index fbefc65e9..fdd1654cd 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/kedro-datasets.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/kedro-datasets.yml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       matrix:
         os: [ ubuntu-latest, windows-latest ]
-        python-version: [ "3.10", "3.11", "3.12" ]
+        python-version: [ "3.10", "3.11", "3.12", "3.13" ]
     uses: ./.github/workflows/unit-tests.yml
     with:
       plugin: kedro-datasets
diff --git a/kedro-datasets/README.md b/kedro-datasets/README.md
index b36ce04e6..44707c44a 100644
--- a/kedro-datasets/README.md
+++ b/kedro-datasets/README.md
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 <!-- Note that the contents of this file are also used in the documentation, see docs/source/index.md -->
 
 [![License](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-Apache%202.0-blue.svg)](https://github.com/kedro-org/kedro-plugins/blob/main/LICENSE.md)
-[![Python Version](https://img.shields.io/badge/python-3.10%20%7C%203.11%20%7C%203.12-blue.svg)](https://pypi.org/project/kedro-datasets/)
+[![Python Version](https://img.shields.io/badge/python-3.10%20%7C%203.11%20%7C%203.12%20%7C%203.13-blue.svg)](https://pypi.org/project/kedro-datasets/)
 [![PyPI Version](https://badge.fury.io/py/kedro-datasets.svg)](https://pypi.org/project/kedro-datasets/)
 [![Code Style: Black](https://img.shields.io/badge/code%20style-black-black.svg)](https://github.com/ambv/black)
 
diff --git a/kedro-datasets/RELEASE.md b/kedro-datasets/RELEASE.md
index 19b0ee2f6..5c2a82473 100755
--- a/kedro-datasets/RELEASE.md
+++ b/kedro-datasets/RELEASE.md
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 # Upcoming Release
 
 ## Major features and improvements
+- Added support for Python 3.13.
 
 - Added the following new datasets:
 
diff --git a/kedro-datasets/pyproject.toml b/kedro-datasets/pyproject.toml
index 300a2debf..73209b639 100644
--- a/kedro-datasets/pyproject.toml
+++ b/kedro-datasets/pyproject.toml
@@ -283,7 +283,7 @@ test = [
     "langchain-cohere>=0.1.5",
     "langchain-anthropic>=0.1.13",
     "langchain-community>=0.2.0",
-    "lxml~=4.6",
+    "lxml~=5.0",
     "matplotlib>=3.5, <4.0",
     "memory_profiler>=0.50.0, <1.0",
     "moto==5.0.0",