build: Bump *nix release build environment to more recent 3.9

3.9.17 for linux and macOS

Author: achow101

contrib/build.Dockerfile

@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ COPY contrib/reproducible-python.diff /opt/reproducible-python.diff
 ENV PYTHON_CONFIGURE_OPTS="--enable-shared"
 ENV BUILD_DATE="Jan  1 2019"
 ENV BUILD_TIME="00:00:00"
-RUN eval "$(pyenv init --path)" && eval "$(pyenv virtualenv-init -)" && cat /opt/reproducible-python.diff | pyenv install -kp 3.9.7
+RUN eval "$(pyenv init --path)" && eval "$(pyenv virtualenv-init -)" && cat /opt/reproducible-python.diff | pyenv install -kp 3.9.17
 
 ENV LC_ALL=C.UTF-8
 ENV LANG=C.UTF-8

docs/development/release-process.rst

@@ -30,14 +30,14 @@ Note that the macOS build is non-deterministic.
 
 First install `pyenv <https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv>`_ using whichever method you prefer.
 
-Then a deterministic build of Python 3.9.7 needs to be installed. This can be done with the patch in ``contrib/reproducible-python.diff``. First ``cd`` into HWI's source tree. Then use::
+Then a deterministic build of Python 3.9.17 needs to be installed. This can be done with the patch in ``contrib/reproducible-python.diff``. First ``cd`` into HWI's source tree. Then use::
 
-    cat contrib/reproducible-python.diff | PYTHON_CONFIGURE_OPTS="--enable-framework" BUILD_DATE="Jan  1 2019" BUILD_TIME="00:00:00" pyenv install -kp 3.9.7
+    cat contrib/reproducible-python.diff | PYTHON_CONFIGURE_OPTS="--enable-framework" BUILD_DATE="Jan  1 2019" BUILD_TIME="00:00:00" pyenv install -kp 3.9.17
 
-Make sure that python 3.9.7 is active::
+Make sure that python 3.9.17 is active::
 
     $ python --version
-    Python 3.9.7
+    Python 3.9.17
 
 Now install `Poetry <https://github.com/sdispater/poetry>`_ with ``pip install poetry``