Merge pull request #2883 from vkarak/upgrade-requests

[dependencies] Update requests version and add a Python 3.6 disclaimer

Author: vkarak

docs/started.rst

@@ -19,6 +19,11 @@ Requirements
     Support for Python 3.5 has been dropped.
 
 
+.. warning::
+   Although ReFrame supports Python 3.6, you should note that Python 3.6 has reached its end-of-life and you are advised to use a newer Python version.
+   ReFrame installations on Python 3.6 may use out-of-date dependencies due to incompatibilities of their newer versions with Python 3.6.
+
+
 Getting the Framework
 ---------------------
 

requirements.txt

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ pytest-rerunfailures==10.3; python_version == '3.6'
 pytest-rerunfailures==11.1.2; python_version >= '3.7'
 PyYAML==6.0
 requests==2.27.1; python_version == '3.6'
-requests==2.28.1; python_version >= '3.7'
+requests==2.31.0; python_version >= '3.7'
 semver==2.13.0
 setuptools==59.6.0; python_version == '3.6'
 setuptools==67.6.1; python_version >= '3.7'