CI: Upgrade to ubuntu-24.04, install Python free threading from conda-forge

.github/workflows/code-checks.yml

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ permissions:
 jobs:
   docstring_typing_manual_hooks:
     name: Docstring validation, typing, and other manual pre-commit hooks
-    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
     defaults:
       run:
         shell: bash -el {0}
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ jobs:
 
   asv-benchmarks:
     name: ASV Benchmarks
-    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
     defaults:
       run:
         shell: bash -el {0}
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ jobs:
 
   build_docker_dev_environment:
     name: Build Docker Dev Environment
-    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
     defaults:
       run:
         shell: bash -el {0}
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ jobs:
 
   requirements-dev-text-installable:
     name: Test install requirements-dev.txt
-    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
 
     concurrency:
       # https://github.community/t/concurrecy-not-work-for-push/183068/7

.github/workflows/codeql.yml

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ permissions:
 
 jobs:
   analyze:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
     permissions:
       actions: read
       contents: read

.github/workflows/comment-commands.yml

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ permissions:
 
 jobs:
   issue_assign:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
     if: (!github.event.issue.pull_request) && github.event.comment.body == 'take'
     concurrency:
       group: ${{ github.actor }}-issue-assign
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ jobs:
           echo "Assigning issue ${{ github.event.issue.number }} to ${{ github.event.comment.user.login }}"
           curl -H "Authorization: token ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}" -d '{"assignees": ["${{ github.event.comment.user.login }}"]}' https://api.github.com/repos/${{ github.repository }}/issues/${{ github.event.issue.number }}/assignees
   preview_docs:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
     if: github.event.issue.pull_request && github.event.comment.body == '/preview'
     concurrency:
       group: ${{ github.actor }}-preview-docs
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ jobs:
           previewer-server: "https://pandas.pydata.org/preview"
           artifact-job: "Doc Build and Upload"
   asv_run:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
     # TODO: Support more benchmarking options later, against different branches, against self, etc
     if: github.event.issue.pull_request && startsWith(github.event.comment.body, '@github-actions benchmark')
     defaults:

.github/workflows/deprecation-tracking-bot.yml

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ jobs:
   deprecation_update:
     permissions:
       issues: write
-    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
     env:
       DEPRECATION_TRACKER_ISSUE: 56596
     steps:

.github/workflows/docbuild-and-upload.yml

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ permissions:
 jobs:
   web_and_docs:
     name: Doc Build and Upload
-    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
 
     concurrency:
       # https://github.community/t/concurrecy-not-work-for-push/183068/7

.github/workflows/package-checks.yml

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ defaults:
 jobs:
   pip:
     if: ${{ github.event.label.name == 'Build' || contains(github.event.pull_request.labels.*.name, 'Build') || github.event_name == 'push'}}
-    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
     strategy:
       matrix:
         extra: ["test", "pyarrow", "performance", "computation", "fss", "aws", "gcp", "excel", "parquet", "feather", "hdf5", "spss", "postgresql", "mysql", "sql-other", "html", "xml", "plot", "output-formatting", "clipboard", "compression", "all"]
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ jobs:
         shell: bash -el {0}
   conda_forge_recipe:
     if: ${{ github.event.label.name == 'Build' || contains(github.event.pull_request.labels.*.name, 'Build') || github.event_name == 'push'}}
-    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
     strategy:
       matrix:
         python-version: ['3.10', '3.11']

.github/workflows/stale-pr.yml

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ jobs:
     permissions:
       pull-requests: write
     if: github.repository_owner == 'pandas-dev'
-    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
     steps:
     - uses: actions/stale@v9
       with:

.github/workflows/unit-tests.yml

@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ jobs:
     timeout-minutes: 90
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        platform: [ubuntu-22.04, ubuntu-24.04-arm]
+        platform: [ubuntu-24.04, ubuntu-24.04-arm]
         env_file: [actions-310.yaml, actions-311.yaml, actions-312.yaml, actions-313.yaml]
         # Prevent the include jobs from overriding other jobs
         pattern: [""]
@@ -36,11 +36,15 @@ jobs:
             env_file: actions-311-downstream_compat.yaml
             pattern: "not slow and not network and not single_cpu"
             pytest_target: "pandas/tests/test_downstream.py"
-            platform: ubuntu-22.04
+            platform: ubuntu-24.04
           - name: "Minimum Versions"
             env_file: actions-310-minimum_versions.yaml
             pattern: "not slow and not network and not single_cpu"
-            platform: ubuntu-22.04
+            platform: ubuntu-24.04
+          - name: "Freethreading"
+            env_file: actions-313-freethreading.yaml
+            pattern: "not slow and not network and not single_cpu"
+            platform: ubuntu-24.04
           - name: "Locale: it_IT"
             env_file: actions-311.yaml
             pattern: "not slow and not network and not single_cpu"
@@ -51,7 +55,7 @@ jobs:
             # Also install it_IT (its encoding is ISO8859-1) but do not activate it.
             # It will be temporarily activated during tests with locale.setlocale
             extra_loc: "it_IT"
-            platform: ubuntu-22.04
+            platform: ubuntu-24.04
           - name: "Locale: zh_CN"
             env_file: actions-311.yaml
             pattern: "not slow and not network and not single_cpu"
@@ -62,30 +66,30 @@ jobs:
             # Also install zh_CN (its encoding is gb2312) but do not activate it.
             # It will be temporarily activated during tests with locale.setlocale
             extra_loc: "zh_CN"
-            platform: ubuntu-22.04
+            platform: ubuntu-24.04
           - name: "Future infer strings"
             env_file: actions-312.yaml
             pandas_future_infer_string: "1"
-            platform: ubuntu-22.04
+            platform: ubuntu-24.04
           - name: "Future infer strings (without pyarrow)"
             env_file: actions-311.yaml
             pandas_future_infer_string: "1"
-            platform: ubuntu-22.04
+            platform: ubuntu-24.04
           - name: "Pypy"
             env_file: actions-pypy-39.yaml
             pattern: "not slow and not network and not single_cpu"
             test_args: "--max-worker-restart 0"
-            platform: ubuntu-22.04
+            platform: ubuntu-24.04
           - name: "Numpy Dev"
             env_file: actions-311-numpydev.yaml
             pattern: "not slow and not network and not single_cpu"
             test_args: "-W error::DeprecationWarning -W error::FutureWarning"
-            platform: ubuntu-22.04
+            platform: ubuntu-24.04
           - name: "Pyarrow Nightly"
             env_file: actions-311-pyarrownightly.yaml
             pattern: "not slow and not network and not single_cpu"
             pandas_future_infer_string: "1"
-            platform: ubuntu-22.04
+            platform: ubuntu-24.04
       fail-fast: false
     name: ${{ matrix.name || format('{0} {1}', matrix.platform, matrix.env_file) }}
     env:
@@ -220,7 +224,7 @@ jobs:
         uses: ./.github/actions/run-tests
 
   Linux-32-bit:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
     container:
       image: quay.io/pypa/manylinux2014_i686
       options: --platform linux/386
@@ -256,7 +260,7 @@ jobs:
       cancel-in-progress: true
 
   Linux-Musl:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
     container:
       image: quay.io/pypa/musllinux_1_2_x86_64
     steps:
@@ -325,7 +329,7 @@ jobs:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
         # Separate out macOS 13 and 14, since macOS 14 is arm64 only
-        os: [ubuntu-22.04, macOS-13, macOS-14, windows-latest]
+        os: [ubuntu-24.04, macOS-13, macOS-14, windows-latest]
 
     timeout-minutes: 90
 
@@ -362,48 +366,6 @@ jobs:
       - name: Run Tests
         uses: ./.github/actions/run-tests
 
-  python-freethreading:
-    defaults:
-      run:
-        shell: bash -eou pipefail {0}
-    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
-
-    timeout-minutes: 90
-
-    concurrency:
-      # https://github.community/t/concurrecy-not-work-for-push/183068/7
-      group: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.run_number || github.ref }}-python-freethreading-dev
-      cancel-in-progress: true
-
-    env:
-      PYTEST_WORKERS: "auto"
-      PANDAS_CI: 1
-      PATTERN: "not slow and not network and not clipboard and not single_cpu"
-      PYTEST_TARGET: pandas
-
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-        with:
-          fetch-depth: 0
-
-      - name: Set up Python Free-threading Version
-        uses: deadsnakes/[email protected]
-        with:
-          python-version: 3.13-dev
-          nogil: true
-
-      - name: Build Environment
-        run: |
-          python --version
-          python -m pip install --upgrade pip setuptools wheel numpy meson[ninja]==1.2.1 meson-python==0.13.1
-          python -m pip install --pre --extra-index-url https://pypi.anaconda.org/scientific-python-nightly-wheels/simple cython
-          python -m pip install versioneer[toml] python-dateutil pytz tzdata hypothesis>=6.84.0 pytest>=7.3.2 pytest-xdist>=3.4.0 pytest-cov
-          python -m pip install -ve . --no-build-isolation --no-index --no-deps -Csetup-args="--werror"
-          python -m pip list
-
-      - name: Run Tests
-        uses: ./.github/actions/run-tests
-
   # NOTE: this job must be kept in sync with the Pyodide build job in wheels.yml
   emscripten:
     # Note: the Python version, Emscripten toolchain version are determined
@@ -413,7 +375,7 @@ jobs:
     # The Node.js version can be determined via Pyodide:
     # https://pyodide.org/en/stable/usage/index.html#node-js
     name: Pyodide build
-    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
     concurrency:
       # https://github.community/t/concurrecy-not-work-for-push/183068/7
       group: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.run_number || github.ref }}-wasm

.github/workflows/wheels.yml

@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ jobs:
       (github.event_name == 'pull_request' &&
       contains(github.event.pull_request.labels.*.name, 'Build')) ||
       (github.event_name == 'push' && startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/v') && ( ! endsWith(github.ref, 'dev0')))
-    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
     env:
       IS_PUSH: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/v') }}
       IS_SCHEDULE_DISPATCH: ${{ github.event_name == 'schedule' || github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch' }}
@@ -92,8 +92,8 @@ jobs:
         # GitHub Actions doesn't support pairing matrix values together, let's improvise
         # https://github.com/github/feedback/discussions/7835#discussioncomment-1769026
         buildplat:
-        - [ubuntu-22.04, manylinux_x86_64]
-        - [ubuntu-22.04, musllinux_x86_64]
+        - [ubuntu-24.04, manylinux_x86_64]
+        - [ubuntu-24.04, musllinux_x86_64]
         - [ubuntu-24.04-arm, manylinux_aarch64]
         - [macos-13, macosx_x86_64]
         # Note: M1 images on Github Actions start from macOS 14
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ jobs:
         # Build Pyodide wheels and upload them to Anaconda.org
         # NOTE: this job is similar to the one in unit-tests.yml except for the fact
         # that it uses cibuildwheel instead of a standard Pyodide xbuildenv setup.
-        - buildplat: [ubuntu-22.04, pyodide_wasm32]
+        - buildplat: [ubuntu-24.04, pyodide_wasm32]
           python: ["cp312", "3.12"]
           cibw_build_frontend: 'build'
 

ci/deps/actions-313-freethreading.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+name: pandas-dev-313-freethreading
+channels:
+  - conda-forge
+dependencies:
+  - python-freethreading
+
+  # build dependencies
+  - setuptools
+  - versioneer
+  - meson=1.8.0
+  - meson-python=0.18.0
+
+  # test dependencies
+  - pytest>=7.3.2
+  - pytest-cov
+  - pytest-xdist>=3.4.0
+
+  # required dependencies
+  - python-dateutil
+  - numpy
+
+  # optional dependencies
+  - hypothesis>=6.84.0
+
+  # Move Cython to build dependencies, once they release a version that supports freethreading
+  - pip:
+    - "tzdata>=2022.7"
+    - "--extra-index-url https://pypi.anaconda.org/scientific-python-nightly-wheels/simple"
+    - "cython"