Update supported python versions

Author: rhpvorderman

.github/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -16,10 +16,10 @@ jobs:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
           submodules: recursive
-      - name: Set up Python 3.8
+      - name: Set up Python 3.9
         uses: actions/setup-python@v5
         with:
-          python-version: 3.8
+          python-version: "3.9"
       - 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 3.8
+      - name: Set up Python 3.9
         uses: actions/setup-python@v5
         with:
-          python-version: 3.8
+          python-version: "3.9"
       - name: Install isal
         run: sudo apt-get install libisal-dev
       - name: Install tox and upgrade setuptools and pip
@@ -54,7 +54,6 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       matrix:
         python-version:
-          - "3.8"
           - "3.9"
           - "3.10"
           - "3.11"
@@ -65,11 +64,11 @@ jobs:
         os: ["ubuntu-latest"]
         include:
           - os: "macos-13"
-            python-version: "3.8"
+            python-version: "3.9"
           - os: "macos-14"
             python-version: "3.10"
           - os: "windows-latest"
-            python-version: "3.8"
+            python-version: "3.9"
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
@@ -105,7 +104,7 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       matrix:
         python_version:
-          - "3.8"
+          - "3.9"
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:

CHANGELOG.rst

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ Changelog
 
 version 1.8.0-dev
 -----------------
++ Python 3.8 is no longer supported.
 + Change build backend to setuptools-scm which is more commonly used and
   supported.
 + Include test packages in the source distribution, so source distribution

pyproject.toml

@@ -13,14 +13,15 @@ keywords=["isal", "isa-l", "compression", "deflate", "gzip", "igzip"]
 authors = [{name = "Leiden University Medical Center"},
            {email = "[email protected]"}]
 readme = "README.rst"
-requires-python = ">=3.8"  # BadGzipFile imported
+requires-python = ">=3.9"  # Because of setuptools version
 classifiers = [
         "Programming Language :: Python :: 3 :: Only",
         "Programming Language :: Python :: 3",
-        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.7",
-        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8",
         "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9",
         "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10",
+        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11",
+        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12",
+        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.13",
         "Programming Language :: Python :: Implementation :: CPython",
         "Programming Language :: Python :: Implementation :: PyPy",
         "Programming Language :: C",