chore: remove Python 3.8 references

.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ jobs:
         # https://github.com/actions/setup-python
         uses: actions/setup-python@v3
         with:
-          python-version: 3.8
+          python-version: 3.9
           cache: 'pip'
           cache-dependency-path: requirements/dev.txt
       - name: Upgrade pip and setuptools

.github/workflows/test.yml

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     strategy:
       matrix:
-         python-version: ['3.8', '3.12']
+         python-version: ['3.9', '3.12']
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v3
       - name: Set up Python

changelog.d/20241111_163102_dawoud.sheraz_remove_py38_references.md

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+- 💥 [Deprecation] Drop support for python 3.8 and set Python 3.9 as the minimum supported python version. (by @DawoudSheraz)

requirements/base.txt

@@ -1,36 +1,38 @@
 #
-# This file is autogenerated by pip-compile with Python 3.8
+# This file is autogenerated by pip-compile with Python 3.9
 # by the following command:
 #
 #    pip-compile requirements/base.in
 #
 appdirs==1.4.4
     # via -r requirements/base.in
-cachetools==5.3.2
+cachetools==5.5.0
     # via google-auth
-certifi==2024.7.4
+certifi==2024.8.30
     # via
     #   kubernetes
     #   requests
-charset-normalizer==3.3.1
+charset-normalizer==3.4.0
     # via requests
 click==8.1.7
     # via -r requirements/base.in
-google-auth==2.23.3
+durationpy==0.9
     # via kubernetes
-idna==3.7
+google-auth==2.35.0
+    # via kubernetes
+idna==3.10
     # via requests
-importlib-metadata==7.0.1
+importlib-metadata==8.5.0
     # via -r requirements/base.in
-importlib-resources==6.1.1
+importlib-resources==6.4.5
     # via -r requirements/base.in
 jinja2==3.1.4
     # via -r requirements/base.in
-kubernetes==28.1.0
+kubernetes==31.0.0
     # via -r requirements/base.in
-markupsafe==2.1.3
+markupsafe==3.0.2
     # via jinja2
-mypy==1.6.1
+mypy==1.13.0
     # via -r requirements/base.in
 mypy-extensions==1.0.0
     # via mypy
@@ -40,45 +42,45 @@ oauthlib==3.2.2
     #   requests-oauthlib
 packaging==24.1
     # via -r requirements/base.in
-pyasn1==0.5.0
+pyasn1==0.6.1
     # via
     #   pyasn1-modules
     #   rsa
-pyasn1-modules==0.3.0
+pyasn1-modules==0.4.1
     # via google-auth
-pycryptodome==3.20.0
+pycryptodome==3.21.0
     # via -r requirements/base.in
-python-dateutil==2.8.2
+python-dateutil==2.9.0.post0
     # via kubernetes
-pyyaml==6.0.1
+pyyaml==6.0.2
     # via
     #   -r requirements/base.in
     #   kubernetes
 requests==2.32.3
     # via
     #   kubernetes
     #   requests-oauthlib
-requests-oauthlib==1.3.1
+requests-oauthlib==2.0.0
     # via kubernetes
 rsa==4.9
     # via google-auth
 six==1.16.0
     # via
     #   kubernetes
     #   python-dateutil
-tomli==2.0.1
+tomli==2.0.2
     # via mypy
-typing-extensions==4.8.0
+typing-extensions==4.12.2
     # via
     #   -r requirements/base.in
     #   mypy
-urllib3==1.26.19
+urllib3==2.2.3
     # via
     #   kubernetes
     #   requests
-websocket-client==1.6.4
+websocket-client==1.8.0
     # via kubernetes
-zipp==3.19.2
+zipp==3.20.2
     # via
     #   importlib-metadata
     #   importlib-resources