Merge branch 'develop' into free-threading

Author: rhpvorderman

.github/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -16,10 +16,10 @@ jobs:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
           submodules: recursive
-      - name: Set up Python 3.9
+      - name: Set up Python 3.10
         uses: actions/setup-python@v5
         with:
-          python-version: "3.9"
+          python-version: "3.10"
       - name: Install tox
         run: pip install tox
       - name: Lint
@@ -36,10 +36,10 @@ jobs:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
           submodules: recursive
-      - name: Set up Python 3.9
+      - name: Set up Python 3.10
         uses: actions/setup-python@v5
         with:
-          python-version: "3.9"
+          python-version: "3.10"
       - name: Install isal
         run: sudo apt-get install libisal-dev
       - name: Install tox and upgrade setuptools and pip
@@ -54,24 +54,22 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       matrix:
         python-version:
-          - "3.9"
           - "3.10"
           - "3.11"
           - "3.12"
           - "3.13"
-          - "3.13t"
-          - "3.14-dev"
-          - "3.14t-dev"
-          - "pypy-3.9"
+          - "3.14"
+          - "3.14t"
           - "pypy-3.10"
+          - "pypy-3.11"
         os: ["ubuntu-latest"]
         include:
           - os: "macos-13"
-            python-version: "3.9"
-          - os: "macos-14"
+            python-version: "3.10"
+          - os: "macos-latest"
             python-version: "3.10"
           - os: "windows-latest"
-            python-version: "3.9"
+            python-version: "3.10"
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
@@ -80,6 +78,7 @@ jobs:
         uses: actions/setup-python@v5
         with:
           python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+          allow-prereleases: true
       - name: Install tox and upgrade setuptools
         run: pip install --upgrade tox setuptools
       - name: Install build dependencies (Linux)  # Yasm in pypa/manylinux images.
@@ -107,7 +106,7 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       matrix:
         python_version:
-          - "3.9"
+          - "3.10"
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:

CHANGELOG.rst

@@ -10,7 +10,8 @@ Changelog
 
 version 1.8.0-dev
 -----------------
-+ Python 3.8 is no longer supported.
++ Python 3.14 is supported.
++ Python 3.8 and 3.9 are no longer supported.
 + Fix an issue where flushing using igzip_threaded caused a gzip end of stream
   and started a new gzip stream. In essence creating a concatenated gzip
   stream. Now it is in concordance with how single threaded gzip streams

pyproject.toml

@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ requires-python = ">=3.9"  # Because of setuptools version
 classifiers = [
         "Programming Language :: Python :: 3 :: Only",
         "Programming Language :: Python :: 3",
-        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9",
         "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10",
         "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11",
         "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12",