diff --git a/docker/set-python-version.sh b/docker/set-python-version.sh
index a349c719..6331e982 100644
--- a/docker/set-python-version.sh
+++ b/docker/set-python-version.sh
@@ -6,7 +6,10 @@ PYTHON_VERSION=${1}
 function parse_version {
     local version=${1}
 
-    if [[ ${version}  == 3.13* ]]
+    if [[ ${version}  == 3.14* ]]
+    then
+        echo "cp314-cp314"
+    elif [[ ${version}  == 3.13* ]]
     then
         echo "cp313-cp313"
     elif [[ ${version}  == 3.12* ]]
diff --git a/tests/test_firehose.py b/tests/test_firehose.py
index dd8d00d2..cce974e4 100644
--- a/tests/test_firehose.py
+++ b/tests/test_firehose.py
@@ -24,7 +24,10 @@ def _ensure_timeout(f, timeout=3):
     # This test is useful, so if you know how to fix this under e.g. Windows, let's
     # fix it!
     if platform == "linux" or platform == "linux2":
-        p = multiprocessing.Process(target=f)
+        # way of starting process on Linux changed in python 3.14 from fork to forkserver: https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/84559
+        # to keep this test working on newer python versions we specify the "fork" method explicitly
+        ctx = multiprocessing.get_context("fork")
+        p = ctx.Process(target=f)
         p.start()
 
         p.join(timeout)