diff --git a/install/kitchenowl-install.sh b/install/kitchenowl-install.sh
index 0ef0ce7a3..e5627e7e6 100644
--- a/install/kitchenowl-install.sh
+++ b/install/kitchenowl-install.sh
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ $STD apt install -y \
   libssl-dev
 msg_ok "Installed Dependencies"
 
-PYTHON_VERSION="3.12" setup_uv
+PYTHON_VERSION="3.14" setup_uv
 import_local_ip
 fetch_and_deploy_gh_release "kitchenowl" "TomBursch/kitchenowl" "tarball" "latest" "/opt/kitchenowl"
 rm -rf /opt/kitchenowl/web
@@ -30,7 +30,8 @@ fetch_and_deploy_gh_release "kitchenowl-web" "TomBursch/kitchenowl" "prebuild" "
 
 msg_info "Setting up KitchenOwl"
 cd /opt/kitchenowl/backend
-$STD uv sync --python 3.12
+rm -f uv.lock
+$STD uv sync
 sed -i 's/default=True/default=False/' /opt/kitchenowl/backend/wsgi.py
 mkdir -p /nltk_data
 $STD uv run python -m nltk.downloader -d /nltk_data averaged_perceptron_tagger_eng punkt_tab