diff --git a/.github/workflows/python-wheels.yml b/.github/workflows/python-wheels.yml
index fc228356e8..f3d29e373e 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/python-wheels.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/python-wheels.yml
@@ -93,8 +93,7 @@ jobs:
           VCPKG_DEFAULT_TRIPLET: x64-windows-dynamic-release
           VCPKG_DEFAULT_BINARY_CACHE: ${{ github.workspace }}/vcpkg-bincache
           CMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE: ${{ github.workspace }}/vcpkg/scripts/buildsystems/vcpkg.cmake
-          CIBW_BUILD: "cp39-win_amd64"
-          CIBW_TEST_REQUIRES: pytest adbc_driver_manager geoarrow-pyarrow geopandas
+          CIBW_BUILD: "cp310-win_amd64"
           # Test command exits 0 even on failure so CIBW continues building all wheels;
           # failures are recorded in .test_failed and checked after upload.
           # We use Python here to be absolutely sure there are no shell escaping issues.
@@ -113,7 +112,7 @@ jobs:
       - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v7
         with:
           name: release-wheels-windows-x86_64
-          path: python/sedonadb/dist/*-cp39-abi3-*.whl
+          path: python/sedonadb/dist/*-cp310-abi3-*.whl
           if-no-files-found: error
 
       - name: Fail if tests failed
@@ -179,7 +178,7 @@ jobs:
       - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v7
         with:
           name: release-wheels-macOS-arm64
-          path: python/sedonadb/dist/*-cp39-abi3-*.whl
+          path: python/sedonadb/dist/*-cp310-abi3-*.whl
           if-no-files-found: error
 
       - name: Fail if tests failed
@@ -246,7 +245,7 @@ jobs:
       - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v7
         with:
           name: release-wheels-macOS-amd64
-          path: python/sedonadb/dist/*-cp39-abi3-*.whl
+          path: python/sedonadb/dist/*-cp310-abi3-*.whl
           if-no-files-found: error
 
       - name: Fail if tests failed
@@ -312,7 +311,7 @@ jobs:
       - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v7
         with:
           name: release-wheels-${{ matrix.config.label }}
-          path: python/sedonadb/dist/*-cp39-abi3-*.whl
+          path: python/sedonadb/dist/*-cp310-abi3-*.whl
           if-no-files-found: error
 
       - name: Fail if tests failed
diff --git a/.github/workflows/wheels-zarr.yml b/.github/workflows/wheels-zarr.yml
index 483d13fc98..cdd02f3621 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/wheels-zarr.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/wheels-zarr.yml
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ jobs:
           cd ci/scripts
           .\wheels-build-zarr-windows.ps1
         env:
-          CIBW_BUILD: "cp39-win_amd64"
+          CIBW_BUILD: "cp310-win_amd64"
           # Install the sedonadb dev wheel downloaded into the package dir
           # above: first sedonadb itself (--no-deps --pre, since the dev
           # version is a prerelease), then its dependencies without --pre so
diff --git a/ci/scripts/wheels-build-linux.sh b/ci/scripts/wheels-build-linux.sh
index 8bda4e9d27..3cc7162201 100755
--- a/ci/scripts/wheels-build-linux.sh
+++ b/ci/scripts/wheels-build-linux.sh
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ BEFORE_ALL_MANYLINUX="yum install -y curl zip unzip tar clang perl"
 # add quite a bit of complexity but could save time if we build wheels for linux frequently.
 # The native and Rust builds are cached on each image such that compile work is effectively
 # cached between Python versions (just not between invocations of this script).
-export CIBW_ENVIRONMENT_LINUX="VCPKG_ROOT=/vcpkg VCPKG_REF=$VCPKG_REF VCPKG_DEFAULT_TRIPLET=$VCPKG_DEFAULT_TRIPLET CMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=/vcpkg/scripts/buildsystems/vcpkg.cmake PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/vcpkg/installed/$VCPKG_DEFAULT_TRIPLET/lib/pkgconfig LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/vcpkg/installed/$VCPKG_DEFAULT_TRIPLET/lib $SEDONADB_RELEASE_PROFILE_ENV MATURIN_PEP517_ARGS='--features s2geography,pyo3/extension-module,pyo3/abi3-py39'"
+export CIBW_ENVIRONMENT_LINUX="VCPKG_ROOT=/vcpkg VCPKG_REF=$VCPKG_REF VCPKG_DEFAULT_TRIPLET=$VCPKG_DEFAULT_TRIPLET CMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=/vcpkg/scripts/buildsystems/vcpkg.cmake PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/vcpkg/installed/$VCPKG_DEFAULT_TRIPLET/lib/pkgconfig LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/vcpkg/installed/$VCPKG_DEFAULT_TRIPLET/lib $SEDONADB_RELEASE_PROFILE_ENV MATURIN_PEP517_ARGS='--features s2geography,pyo3/extension-module,pyo3/abi3-py310'"
 
 # Host directories to bind-mount into the build container. cibuildwheel copies
 # the project into the container rather than bind-mounting it, so anything the
diff --git a/ci/scripts/wheels-build-macos.sh b/ci/scripts/wheels-build-macos.sh
index bd73e8c4a7..56a7bb0a91 100755
--- a/ci/scripts/wheels-build-macos.sh
+++ b/ci/scripts/wheels-build-macos.sh
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ source ./wheels-bootstrap-vcpkg.sh
 export CIBW_REPAIR_WHEEL_COMMAND_MACOS="DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=$VCPKG_INSTALL_NAME_DIR delocate-listdeps {wheel} && DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=$VCPKG_INSTALL_NAME_DIR delocate-wheel --require-archs {delocate_archs} -w {dest_dir} {wheel}"
 
 # Pass on environment variables specifically for the build
-export CIBW_ENVIRONMENT_MACOS="$CIBW_ENVIRONMENT_MACOS _PYTHON_HOST_PLATFORM=macosx-12.0-${SEDONADB_MACOS_ARCH} MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=12.0 CMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=${CMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE} MATURIN_PEP517_ARGS='--features s2geography,pyo3/extension-module,pyo3/abi3-py39'"
+export CIBW_ENVIRONMENT_MACOS="$CIBW_ENVIRONMENT_MACOS _PYTHON_HOST_PLATFORM=macosx-12.0-${SEDONADB_MACOS_ARCH} MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=12.0 CMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=${CMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE} MATURIN_PEP517_ARGS='--features s2geography,pyo3/extension-module,pyo3/abi3-py310'"
 
 pushd "${SEDONADB_DIR}"
 python -m cibuildwheel --output-dir python/$1/dist python/$1
diff --git a/ci/scripts/wheels-build-windows.ps1 b/ci/scripts/wheels-build-windows.ps1
index bee971998c..0d238db6a6 100644
--- a/ci/scripts/wheels-build-windows.ps1
+++ b/ci/scripts/wheels-build-windows.ps1
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ $env:PATH += ";$scriptDirectory\windows"
 $env:GEOS_LIB_DIR = "$vcpkgLibDirectory"
 $env:GEOS_VERSION = "3.13.0"
 
-$env:MATURIN_PEP517_ARGS='--features s2geography,pyo3/extension-module,pyo3/abi3-py39'
+$env:MATURIN_PEP517_ARGS='--features s2geography,pyo3/extension-module,pyo3/abi3-py310'
 
 # Some CMake configurations needs this separately from the toolchain file
 $env:CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH="$vcpkgInstalledDirectory"
diff --git a/docs/postgis.ipynb b/docs/postgis.ipynb
index db46117dd9..d7f2882c9e 100644
--- a/docs/postgis.ipynb
+++ b/docs/postgis.ipynb
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@
     "This notebook assumes:\n",
     "\n",
     "- A running PostgreSQL instance with PostGIS enabled\n",
-    "- Python 3.9+\n",
+    "- Python 3.10+\n",
     "- The following Python packages available:\n",
     "  - `geopandas`\n",
     "  - `sqlalchemy`\n",
diff --git a/docs/postgis.md b/docs/postgis.md
index e60ce60f19..d6c808a338 100644
--- a/docs/postgis.md
+++ b/docs/postgis.md
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ Two approaches are covered:
 This notebook assumes:
 
 - A running PostgreSQL instance with PostGIS enabled
-- Python 3.9+
+- Python 3.10+
 - The following Python packages available:
   - `geopandas`
   - `sqlalchemy`
diff --git a/python/sedonadb-zarr/pyproject.toml b/python/sedonadb-zarr/pyproject.toml
index 2def92ec29..2d38c241fb 100644
--- a/python/sedonadb-zarr/pyproject.toml
+++ b/python/sedonadb-zarr/pyproject.toml
@@ -48,7 +48,8 @@ test = [
 [tool.cibuildwheel]
 # PyO3's stable ABI support makes this one wheel per platform compatible with
 # every supported non-free-threaded CPython version.
-build = "cp39-*"
+# Test against the current sedonadb wheel, which requires Python 3.10.
+build = "cp310-*"
 
 [tool.maturin]
 features = ["pyo3/extension-module", "pyo3/abi3-py39"]
diff --git a/python/sedonadb/pyproject.toml b/python/sedonadb/pyproject.toml
index ce10679a1c..1014b99c12 100644
--- a/python/sedonadb/pyproject.toml
+++ b/python/sedonadb/pyproject.toml
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ build-backend = "maturin"
 [project]
 name = "sedonadb"
 readme = "README.md"
-requires-python = ">=3.9"
+requires-python = ">=3.10"
 classifiers = [
     "Programming Language :: Rust",
     "Programming Language :: Python :: Implementation :: CPython",
@@ -42,6 +42,8 @@ test = [
     "geopandas",
     "pandas",
     "polars",
+    # Raster export tests need the inline binary view fix in Arrow 25.
+    "pyarrow>=25.0.0",
     "pytest",
     "pyyaml",
     "rasterio",
@@ -57,13 +59,13 @@ geopandas = [
 [tool.cibuildwheel]
 # PyO3's stable ABI support makes this one wheel per platform compatible with
 # every supported CPython version, rather than producing one wheel per version.
-build = "cp39-*"
+build = "cp310-*"
 # Set here rather than via CIBW_TEST_REQUIRES in the workflow: environment
 # variables take precedence over the overrides below.
-test-requires = ["pytest", "adbc_driver_manager", "geoarrow-pyarrow", "geopandas", "duckdb"]
+test-requires = ["pyarrow>=25.0.0", "pytest", "adbc_driver_manager", "geoarrow-pyarrow", "geopandas", "duckdb"]
 
 [tool.maturin]
-features = ["pyo3/extension-module", "pyo3/abi3-py39"]
+features = ["pyo3/extension-module", "pyo3/abi3-py310"]
 module-name = "sedonadb._lib"
 python-source = "python"
 strip = true
diff --git a/python/sedonadb/python/sedonadb/raster.py b/python/sedonadb/python/sedonadb/raster.py
index 7db719dfc7..713e9fc36e 100644
--- a/python/sedonadb/python/sedonadb/raster.py
+++ b/python/sedonadb/python/sedonadb/raster.py
@@ -106,7 +106,8 @@ def from_numpy(
         The mirror of `lazy`: identical dimension/CRS conventions, but the
         pixel data is carried in the raster rather than referenced by URI.
 
-        This operation is zero-copy for contiguous arrays.
+        Contiguous arrays with more than 12 bytes share their pixel buffer.
+        Smaller arrays are copied into Arrow's inline binary view storage.
 
         Args:
             array: The pixel data. The trailing two axes are the spatial `(y, x)`
@@ -709,8 +710,8 @@ def _get_binary_view_buffer(
 def _wrap_data_zero_copy(data) -> pa.BinaryViewArray:
     """Wrap data as a single-element BinaryViewArray without copying.
 
-    For numpy arrays and memoryviews, this creates a zero-copy view.
-    For bytes, pyarrow handles the wrapping efficiently.
+    For contiguous buffers larger than 12 bytes, this creates a zero-copy
+    view. Smaller buffers are copied into the binary view's inline storage.
     """
     import numpy as np
 
diff --git a/python/sedonadb/src/raster_loader.rs b/python/sedonadb/src/raster_loader.rs
index cff283c0fc..cf51cdd134 100644
--- a/python/sedonadb/src/raster_loader.rs
+++ b/python/sedonadb/src/raster_loader.rs
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ impl AsyncRasterLoader for PyRasterLoader {
 
                     // The buffer protocol did not join Python's Limited API
                     // until 3.11. Convert through the built-in bytes type so
-                    // this extension can use abi3 while retaining Python 3.9
+                    // this extension can use abi3 while retaining Python 3.10
                     // support. `Bytes` takes ownership of the resulting Vec,
                     // so this performs one copy at the Python/Rust boundary.
                     let py_bytes = py
diff --git a/python/sedonadb/tests/test_raster.py b/python/sedonadb/tests/test_raster.py
index 9befc2a660..5f2a92f7ae 100644
--- a/python/sedonadb/tests/test_raster.py
+++ b/python/sedonadb/tests/test_raster.py
@@ -382,6 +382,24 @@ def test_raster_from_numpy_2d():
     assert np.shares_memory(b.to_numpy(), arr)
 
 
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("nbytes", [0, 1, 6, 12, 13, 1024])
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("strided", [False, True])
+def test_raster_from_numpy_arrow_roundtrip(nbytes, strided):
+    source = np.arange(nbytes * (2 if strided else 1), dtype=np.uint8)
+    pixels = (source[::2] if strided else source).reshape(1, nbytes)
+    raster = Raster.from_numpy(pixels)
+
+    # Exporting an inline binary view cast from binary crashes older PyArrow.
+    # Exercise the C Data protocol, not just Arrow's array validation.
+    schema, array = raster.__arrow_c_array__()
+    result = pa.Array._import_from_c_capsule(schema, array)
+    result.validate(full=True)
+    restored = Raster(result).to_numpy()[0]
+    np.testing.assert_array_equal(restored, pixels)
+    if nbytes > 12:
+        assert np.shares_memory(restored, pixels) == (not strided)
+
+
 def test_raster_from_numpy_nd_with_crs():
     arr = np.arange(2 * 2 * 3, dtype="float32").reshape(2, 2, 3)
     r = Raster.from_numpy(arr, dim_names=["time", "y", "x"], crs="EPSG:4326")