diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 401faa7b..a0966117 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 # Version 22.7.0 (2024-??-??) *NOT RELEASED YET*
+* Fix SPDX document version
 * Take `main.Main` name's argument as the arguments parser's prog name
 * Add DLL closure check to Anod class
 * Add git_shallow_fetch_since to checkout.py
diff --git a/src/e3/spdx.py b/src/e3/spdx.py
index 9ebc50d7..7e1a3072 100644
--- a/src/e3/spdx.py
+++ b/src/e3/spdx.py
@@ -835,7 +835,7 @@ class DocumentInformation(SPDXSection):
 
     document_name: DocumentName
     document_namespace: DocumentNamespace = field(init=False)
-    version: SPDXVersion = SPDXVersion("SPDX-1.2")
+    version: SPDXVersion = SPDXVersion("SPDX-2.3")
     data_license: DataLicense = DataLicense("CC0-1.0")
     spdx_id: SPDXID = SPDXID("DOCUMENT")
 
diff --git a/tests/tests_e3/spdx_test.py b/tests/tests_e3/spdx_test.py
index 4d48e505..aa2a8271 100644
--- a/tests/tests_e3/spdx_test.py
+++ b/tests/tests_e3/spdx_test.py
@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ def test_spdx():
         "",
         "DocumentName: my-spdx-test",
         f"DocumentNamespace: {document_namespace}",
-        "SPDXVersion: SPDX-1.2",
+        "SPDXVersion: SPDX-2.3",
         "DataLicense: CC0-1.0",
         "SPDXID: SPDXRef-DOCUMENT",
         "",
@@ -277,7 +277,7 @@ def test_spdx():
 
     assert json_content == {
         "SPDXID": "SPDXRef-DOCUMENT",
-        "spdxVersion": "SPDX-1.2",
+        "spdxVersion": "SPDX-2.3",
         "dataLicense": "CC0-1.0",
         "documentNamespace": document_namespace,
         "documentDescribes": ["SPDXRef-my-spdx-test-main-2.2.2-pkg"],