Drop support for Python 3.8 (#1221)

* Drop support for Python 3.8

* Run poetry lock --no-update

* Add usage of Python 3.9 on Ubuntu 20.04

* Update Ubuntu to 22.04 on Integration tests

* Add Python 3.10 to python-release workflow

Author: raulcd

.github/workflows/python-ci.yml

@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        python: ['3.8', '3.9', '3.10', '3.11', '3.12']
+        python: ['3.9', '3.10', '3.11', '3.12']
 
     steps:
     - uses: actions/checkout@v4

.github/workflows/python-integration.yml

@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ concurrency:
 
 jobs:
   integration-test:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
+    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
 
     steps:
     - uses: actions/checkout@v4

.github/workflows/python-release.yml

@@ -44,7 +44,8 @@ jobs:
       - uses: actions/setup-python@v5
         with:
           python-version: |
-            3.8
+            3.9
+            3.10
             3.11
             3.12
 
@@ -69,7 +70,7 @@ jobs:
         env:
           # Ignore 32 bit architectures
           CIBW_ARCHS: "auto64"
-          CIBW_PROJECT_REQUIRES_PYTHON: ">=3.8,<3.13"
+          CIBW_PROJECT_REQUIRES_PYTHON: ">=3.9,<3.13"
           CIBW_TEST_REQUIRES: "pytest==7.4.2 moto==5.0.1"
           CIBW_TEST_EXTRAS: "s3fs,glue"
           CIBW_TEST_COMMAND: "pytest {project}/tests/avro/test_decoder.py"

mkdocs/docs/contributing.md

@@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ Deprecated in 0.1.0, will be removed in 0.2.0. The old_property is deprecated. P
 
 For the type annotation the types from the `Typing` package are used.
 
-PyIceberg offers support from Python 3.8 onwards, we can't use the [type hints from the standard collections](https://peps.python.org/pep-0585/).
+PyIceberg offers support from Python 3.9 onwards, we can't use the [type hints from the standard collections](https://peps.python.org/pep-0585/).
 
 ## Third party libraries
 

poetry.lock

@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@ license = "Apache License 2.0"
 classifiers = [
   "License :: OSI Approved :: Apache Software License",
   "Operating System :: OS Independent",
-  "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8",
   "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9",
   "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10",
   "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11",
@@ -50,7 +49,7 @@ include = [
 ]
 
 [tool.poetry.dependencies]
-python = "^3.8, <3.13, !=3.9.7"
+python = "^3.9, <3.13, !=3.9.7"
 mmh3 = ">=4.0.0,<5.0.0"
 requests = ">=2.20.0,<3.0.0"
 click = ">=7.1.1,<9.0.0"
@@ -81,7 +80,6 @@ sqlalchemy = { version = "^2.0.18", optional = true }
 getdaft = { version = ">=0.2.12", optional = true }
 numpy = [
     { version = "1.26.0", python = ">=3.9,<3.13", optional = true },
-    { version = "1.24.4", python = ">=3.8,<3.9", optional = true }
 ]
 cachetools = "^5.5.0"