Dropping Support for Python 3.9 in October 2025

[bobbrodie]

Overview

Python will be ending support for version 3.9 in October 2025. In accordance with the Python documentation regarding supported versions, we will quickly drop support for Python 3.9 in October or November 2025.

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Required Updates

Most importantly, we'll need to consider a new major version (v8.0.0) due to the backward incompatibilities. We'll also need to:

• Check dependencies
• Update syntax where mandatory (and other optimizations, with major changes saved for later)