Drop 3.8 support

We dropped 3.8 from geoip2 and minfraud some time ago.

Author: oschwald

.github/workflows/test-libmaxminddb.yml

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ jobs:
         # We don't test on Windows currently due to issues
         # build libmaxminddb there.
         platform: [macos-latest, ubuntu-latest]
-        python-version: [3.8, 3.9, "3.10", 3.11, 3.12, 3.13]
+        python-version: [3.9, "3.10", 3.11, 3.12, 3.13]
 
     name: Python ${{ matrix.python-version }} on ${{ matrix.platform }}
     runs-on: ${{ matrix.platform }}

.github/workflows/test.yml

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       matrix:
         platform: [macos-latest, ubuntu-24.04-arm, ubuntu-latest, windows-latest]
-        python-version: [3.8, 3.9, "3.10", 3.11, 3.12, 3.13]
+        python-version: [3.9, "3.10", 3.11, 3.12, 3.13]
 
     name: Python ${{ matrix.python-version }} on ${{ matrix.platform }}
     runs-on: ${{ matrix.platform }}

HISTORY.rst

@@ -3,9 +3,11 @@
 History
 -------
 
-2.6.4
+2.7.0
 ++++++++++++++++++
 
+* IMPORTANT: Python 3.9 or greater is required. If you are using an older
+  version, please use an earlier release.
 * The vendored ``libmaxminddb`` has been updated to 1.12.2.
 * The C extension now checks that the database metadata lookup was
   successful.

README.rst

@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ invalid IP address or an IPv6 address in an IPv4 database.
 Requirements
 ------------
 
-This code requires Python 3.8+. Older versions are not supported. The C
+This code requires Python 3.9+. Older versions are not supported. The C
 extension requires CPython.
 
 Versioning

pyproject.toml

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ description = "Reader for the MaxMind DB format"
 authors = [
     {name = "Gregory Oschwald", email = "[email protected]"},
 ]
-requires-python = ">=3.8"
+requires-python = ">=3.9"
 readme = "README.rst"
 license = {text = "Apache License, Version 2.0"}
 classifiers = [
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ classifiers = [
     "License :: OSI Approved :: Apache Software License",
     "Programming Language :: Python",
     "Programming Language :: Python :: 3",
-    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8",
     "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9",
     "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10",
     "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11",

setup.cfg

@@ -9,24 +9,23 @@ package_dir =
 packages = maxminddb
 install_requires =
 include_package_data = True
-python_requires = >=3.8
+python_requires = >=3.9
 
 [options.package_data]
 maxminddb = extension.pyi; py.typed
 
 [tox:tox]
-envlist = {py38,py39,py310,py311,py312,py313}-test,py313-{black,lint,flake8,mypy}
+envlist = {py39,py310,py311,py312,py313}-test,py313-{black,lint,flake8,mypy}
 
 [gh-actions]
 python =
-    3.8: py38
     3.9: py39
     3.10: py310
     3.11: py311
     3.12: py312
     3.13: py313,black,lint,flake8,mypy
 
-[testenv:{py38,py39,py310,py311,py312,py313}-test]
+[testenv:{py39,py310,py311,py312,py313}-test]
 deps = pytest
 commands = pytest tests
 passenv = *