Drop py3.8 support; upgrade dependencies to support new min py (#530)

* Bump version: 4.11.0 → 4.12.0

* Drop py3.8 support; upgrade dependencies to support new min py

* Revert removal of fsspec limitation

Author: SeanDuHare

.github/workflows/build-main.yml

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
-        python-version: [3.8, 3.9, '3.10', 3.11]
+        python-version: [3.9, '3.10', 3.11]
         os: [
           ubuntu-latest,
           windows-latest,
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
-        python-version: [3.8, 3.9, '3.10', 3.11]
+        python-version: [3.9, '3.10', 3.11]
         os: [
           ubuntu-20.04,
           windows-latest,

.github/workflows/test-and-lint.yml

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
-        python-version: [3.8, 3.9, '3.10', 3.11]
+        python-version: [3.9, '3.10', 3.11]
         os: [
           ubuntu-latest,
           windows-latest,
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
-        python-version: [3.8, 3.9, '3.10', 3.11]
+        python-version: [3.9, '3.10', 3.11]
         os: [
           ubuntu-20.04,
           windows-latest,

.github/workflows/test-upstreams.yml

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
-        python-version: [3.8, 3.9, '3.10', 3.11]
+        python-version: [3.9, '3.10', 3.11]
         os: [
           ubuntu-latest,
           windows-latest,

.pre-commit-config.yaml

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ repos:
                     --count,
                     --show-source,
                     --statistics,
-                    --min-python-version=3.8.0,
+                    --min-python-version=3.9.0,
                 ]
     - repo: https://github.com/myint/autoflake
       rev: v1.4

setup.py

@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ def run(self):
 ]
 
 test_requirements = [
-    "dask[array,distributed]>=2021.4.1,!=2022.5.1,<=2023.5.0",
+    "dask[array,distributed]>=2021.4.1,!=2022.5.1",
     "docutils>=0.10,<0.16",
     "psutil>=5.7.0",
     "pytest>=5.4.3",
@@ -100,20 +100,20 @@ def run(self):
 ]
 
 requirements = [
-    "dask[array]>=2021.4.1,<=2023.5.0",
+    "dask[array]>=2021.4.1",
     # fssspec restricted due to glob issue tracked here, when fixed remove ceiling
     # https://github.com/fsspec/filesystem_spec/issues/1380
     "fsspec>=2022.8.0,<2023.9.0",
     "imagecodecs>=2020.5.30",
     "lxml>=4.6,<5",
-    "numpy>=1.16,<=1.24.0",
+    "numpy>=1.21.0",
     "ome-types>=0.3.4",
     "ome-zarr>=0.6.1",
     "PyYAML>=6.0",
     "wrapt>=1.12",
     "resource-backed-dask-array>=0.1.0",
     "tifffile>=2021.8.30,<2023.3.15",
-    "xarray>=0.16.1,<2023.02.0",
+    "xarray>=0.16.1",
     "xmlschema",  # no pin because it's pulled in from OME types
     "zarr>=2.6,<2.16.0",
 ]
@@ -138,7 +138,6 @@ def run(self):
         "Intended Audience :: Education",
         "License :: OSI Approved :: BSD License",
         "Natural Language :: English",
-        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8",
         "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9",
         "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10",
         "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11",
@@ -165,7 +164,7 @@ def run(self):
             "*.benchmarks.*",
         ]
     ),
-    python_requires=">=3.8",
+    python_requires=">=3.9",
     setup_requires=setup_requirements,
     test_suite="aicsimageio/tests",
     tests_require=test_requirements,