diff --git a/.github/workflows/pythonpackage.yml b/.github/workflows/pythonpackage.yml
index 9c4b28e..450c9aa 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pythonpackage.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pythonpackage.yml
@@ -12,11 +12,11 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
-        python-version: [3.8, 3.9, pypy-3.8, pypy-3.9, pypy-3.10, '3.10', '3.11' , '3.12.0']
+        python-version: [pypy-3.10, '3.10', '3.11' , '3.12', '3.13']
         os: [
           ubuntu-latest,
           windows-latest,
-          macos-13,
+          macos-latest,
         ]
 
     steps:
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ jobs:
       uses: actions/setup-python@v4
       with:
         python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+        allow-prereleases: true
     - name: Install dependencies
       run: |
         python -m pip install --upgrade pip
diff --git a/json2xml/__init__.py b/json2xml/__init__.py
index c201b91..4d4eb35 100644
--- a/json2xml/__init__.py
+++ b/json2xml/__init__.py
@@ -2,4 +2,4 @@
 
 __author__ = """Vinit Kumar"""
 __email__ = "mail@vinitkumar.me"
-__version__ = "4.1.0"
+__version__ = "5.0.0"
diff --git a/json2xml/dicttoxml.py b/json2xml/dicttoxml.py
index 6062cb1..cb529c9 100644
--- a/json2xml/dicttoxml.py
+++ b/json2xml/dicttoxml.py
@@ -59,11 +59,11 @@ def get_unique_id(element: str) -> str:
     float,
     bool,
     numbers.Number,
-    Sequence,
+    Sequence[str],
     datetime.datetime,
     datetime.date,
     None,
-    Dict[str, Any],
+    dict[str, Any],
 ]
 
 
diff --git a/json2xml/json2xml.py b/json2xml/json2xml.py
index 002e5f6..dd996c4 100644
--- a/json2xml/json2xml.py
+++ b/json2xml/json2xml.py
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ class Json2xml:
     """
     def __init__(
         self,
-        data: Optional[Dict[str, Any]] = None,
+        data: dict[str, Any] | None = None,
         wrapper: str = "all",
         root: bool = True,
         pretty: bool = True,
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ def __init__(
         self.root = root
         self.item_wrap = item_wrap
 
-    def to_xml(self) -> Optional[Any]:
+    def to_xml(self) -> Any | None:
         """
         Convert to xml using dicttoxml.dicttoxml and then pretty print it.
         """
diff --git a/json2xml/utils.py b/json2xml/utils.py
index 5880aaa..bbcf43e 100644
--- a/json2xml/utils.py
+++ b/json2xml/utils.py
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ class StringReadError(Exception):
     pass
 
 
-def readfromjson(filename: str) -> Dict[str, str]:
+def readfromjson(filename: str) -> dict[str, str]:
     """Reads a JSON file and returns a dictionary."""
     try:
         with open(filename, encoding="utf-8") as jsondata:
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ def readfromjson(filename: str) -> Dict[str, str]:
         raise JSONReadError("Invalid JSON File")
 
 
-def readfromurl(url: str, params: Optional[Dict[str, str]] = None) -> Dict[str, str]:
+def readfromurl(url: str, params: dict[str, str] | None = None) -> dict[str, str]:
     """Loads JSON data from a URL and returns a dictionary."""
     http = urllib3.PoolManager()
     response = http.request("GET", url, fields=params)
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ def readfromurl(url: str, params: Optional[Dict[str, str]] = None) -> Dict[str,
     raise URLReadError("URL is not returning correct response")
 
 
-def readfromstring(jsondata: str) -> Dict[str, str]:
+def readfromstring(jsondata: str) -> dict[str, str]:
     """Loads JSON data from a string and returns a dictionary."""
     if not isinstance(jsondata, str):
         raise StringReadError("Input is not a proper JSON string")
diff --git a/tests/test_json2xml.py b/tests/test_json2xml.py
index d4bc3e4..c3a81f9 100644
--- a/tests/test_json2xml.py
+++ b/tests/test_json2xml.py
@@ -50,15 +50,6 @@ def test_read_from_invalid_json2(self):
             readfromjson("examples/wrongjson.json")
         assert pytest_wrapped_e.type == JSONReadError
 
-    def test_read_from_url(self):
-        data = readfromurl("https://api.publicapis.org/entries")
-        assert isinstance(data, dict)
-
-    def test_read_from_wrong_url(self):
-        with pytest.raises(URLReadError) as pytest_wrapped_e:
-            readfromurl("https://api.publicapis.org/entriesi")
-        assert pytest_wrapped_e.type == URLReadError
-
     def test_read_from_jsonstring(self):
         data = readfromstring(
             '{"login":"mojombo","id":1,"avatar_url":"https://avatars0.githubusercontent.com/u/1?v=4"}'