diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 81c415441..d4ea3e3b0 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -46,5 +46,5 @@ See [Contributing to the Adapt Framework](https://github.com/adaptlearning/adapt
 <a href="https://community.adaptlearning.org/" target="_blank"><img src="https://github.com/adaptlearning/documentation/blob/master/04_wiki_assets/plug-ins/images/adapt-logo-mrgn-lft.jpg" alt="adapt learning logo" align="right"></a>  Adapt is licensed under the [GNU General Public License, Version 3](https://github.com/adaptlearning/adapt_framework/blob/master/LICENSE).
 
 ## Requirements
-Node >=16 is required for the grunt tasks to run as needed
+Node >=22 is required for the grunt tasks to run as needed
 
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 33d6f3f65..d37e71a57 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
     "url": "https://github.com/adaptlearning/adapt_framework/issues"
   },
   "engines": {
-    "node": ">=18"
+    "node": ">=22"
   },
   "private": true,
   "dependencies": {