chore(components): Drop GCPC Python 3.7

PiperOrigin-RevId: 627500444

Author: Googler

components/google-cloud/RELEASE.md

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 * Use larger base reward model when tuning `text-bison@001`, `chat-bison@001` and `t5-xxl` with the `preview.llm.rlhf_pipeline`.
 * Move `preview.model_evaluation.autosxs_pipeline` to `v1.model_evaluation.autosxs_pipeline`.
 * Remove default prediction column names in `v1.model_evaluation.classification_component` component to fix pipeline errors when using bigquery data source.
+* Drop support for Python 3.7 since it has reached end-of-life.
 
 ## Release 2.13.1
 * Fix model name preprocess error, pass correct model to `ModelImportEvaluationOp` component in `v1.model_evaluation.evaluation_llm_text_generation_pipeline` and `v1.model_evaluation.evaluation_llm_classification_pipeline`.

components/google-cloud/google_cloud_pipeline_components/__init__.py

@@ -17,13 +17,13 @@
 
 from google_cloud_pipeline_components.version import __version__
 
-if sys.version_info < (3, 8):
+if sys.version_info < (3, 9):
   warnings.warn(
       (
-          'Python 3.7 has reached end-of-life. Google Cloud Pipeline Components'
-          ' will drop support for Python 3.7 on April 23, 2024. To use new'
+          'Python 3.8 has reached end-of-life. Google Cloud Pipeline Components'
+          ' will drop support for Python 3.8 in Oct, 2024. To use new'
           ' versions of the KFP SDK after that date, you will need to upgrade'
-          ' to Python >= 3.8. See https://devguide.python.org/versions/ for'
+          ' to Python >= 3.9. See https://devguide.python.org/versions/ for'
           ' more details.'
       ),
       FutureWarning,

components/google-cloud/setup.py

@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@
         ],
     },
     include_package_data=True,
-    python_requires=">=3.7.0,<3.12.0",
+    python_requires=">=3.8.0,<3.12.0",
     install_requires=[
         # Pin google-api-core version for the bug fixing in 1.31.5
         # https://github.com/googleapis/python-api-core/releases/tag/v1.31.5