diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 71f1ca05..b30ef032 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ Imports:
 Suggests:
     callr,
     conflicted,
-    duckdb,
+    duckdb (>= 0.10.1),
     ggplot2,
     here,
     jsonlite,
diff --git a/R/connection.R b/R/connection.R
index bf329ed4..dfcaf09f 100644
--- a/R/connection.R
+++ b/R/connection.R
@@ -245,5 +245,5 @@ close_connection <- function(conn) {
   # Check arguments
   checkmate::assert_class(conn, "DBIConnection")
 
-  DBI::dbDisconnect(conn, shutdown = TRUE)
+  DBI::dbDisconnect(conn)
 }
diff --git a/data-raw/benchmark.R b/data-raw/benchmark.R
index 3e0f2a5a..a468c02c 100644
--- a/data-raw/benchmark.R
+++ b/data-raw/benchmark.R
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ if (identical(Sys.getenv("CI"), "true") && identical(Sys.getenv("BACKEND"), ""))
       }
 
       # Clean up
-      purrr::walk(conns, ~ DBI::dbDisconnect(., shutdown = TRUE))
+      purrr::walk(conns, DBI::dbDisconnect)
     })
 
     detach("package:SCDB", unload = TRUE)
diff --git a/tests/testthat/helper-setup.R b/tests/testthat/helper-setup.R
index e75a8936..e52537d2 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/helper-setup.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/helper-setup.R
@@ -103,11 +103,6 @@ get_test_conns <- function() {
   purrr::walk2(test_conns, names(test_conns),
                \(conn, conn_name) purrr::walk(purrr::pluck(conn_post_connect, conn_name), ~ DBI::dbExecute(conn, .)))
 
-  # Shutdown drivers that needs it
-  drivers |>
-    purrr::keep(~ inherits(., "duckdb_driver")) |>
-    purrr::walk(~ duckdb::duckdb_shutdown(.))
-
   # Inform the user about the tested back ends:
   msg <- paste(sep = "\n",
     "#####",
diff --git a/tests/testthat/setup.R b/tests/testthat/setup.R
index d57b3770..b25546e8 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/setup.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/setup.R
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ for (conn_id in seq_along(conns)) {
     coll$push(glue::glue("Tests require the schema 'test.one' to exist in connection ({names(conns)[[conn_id]]})."))
   }
 
-  DBI::dbDisconnect(conn, shutdown = TRUE)
+  DBI::dbDisconnect(conn)
 }
 checkmate::reportAssertions(coll)
 
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ for (conn in get_test_conns()) {
                                  until_ts = as.POSIXct(NA)),
                  name = id("__mtcars_historical", conn), temporary = FALSE, overwrite = TRUE)
 
-  DBI::dbDisconnect(conn, shutdown = TRUE)
+  DBI::dbDisconnect(conn)
 }
 
 
@@ -68,5 +68,5 @@ connection_clean_up <- function(conn) {
   if (nrow(dplyr::filter(get_tables(conn, show_temporary = TRUE), stringr::str_detect(.data$table, "^#?dbplyr_")))) {
     warning("Temporary dbplyr tables ('dbplyr_###') are not cleaned up!")
   }
-  DBI::dbDisconnect(conn, shutdown = TRUE)
+  DBI::dbDisconnect(conn)
 }