diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 0bd678b72..ea3b43ccd 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -57,6 +57,9 @@
   - allow both flow-matching and discrete samplers for sdxl models  
   - cleanup command line parameters  
   - add `--new` command line flag to enable testing of new packages without breaking existing installs  
+- **OpenVINO**
+  - update to `openvino==2025.3.0`  
+  - add deprecation warning for Python 3.9  
 - **Fixes**
   - normalize path hanlding when deleting images  
   - unified compile upscalers  
diff --git a/installer.py b/installer.py
index ee585aa29..26f22cb3b 100644
--- a/installer.py
+++ b/installer.py
@@ -822,15 +822,18 @@ def install_ipex():
 
 def install_openvino():
     t_start = time.time()
-    #check_python(supported_minors=[9, 10, 11, 12, 13], reason='OpenVINO backend requires a Python version between 3.9 and 3.13')
     log.info('OpenVINO: selected')
+    #check_python(supported_minors=[10, 11, 12, 13], reason='OpenVINO backend requires a Python version between 3.10 and 3.13')
+    if int(sys.version_info.major) == 3 and int(sys.version_info.minor) == 9:
+        log.warning("Python 3.9 suppot will be removed with the next OpenVINO release!")
+
     if sys.platform == 'darwin':
         torch_command = os.environ.get('TORCH_COMMAND', 'torch==2.8.0 torchvision==0.23.0')
     else:
         torch_command = os.environ.get('TORCH_COMMAND', 'torch==2.8.0+cpu torchvision==0.23.0 --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu')
 
-    install(os.environ.get('OPENVINO_COMMAND', 'openvino==2025.2.0'), 'openvino')
-    install(os.environ.get('NNCF_COMMAND', 'nncf==2.17.0'), 'nncf')
+    install(os.environ.get('OPENVINO_COMMAND', 'openvino==2025.3.0'), 'openvino')
+    install(os.environ.get('NNCF_COMMAND', 'nncf==2.18.0'), 'nncf')
     os.environ.setdefault('PYTORCH_TRACING_MODE', 'TORCHFX')
     if os.environ.get("NEOReadDebugKeys", None) is None:
         os.environ.setdefault('NEOReadDebugKeys', '1')