ci: Remove Python 3.8; add Python 3.12.

Also add Python 3.11 Zulip 7.0 to CI matrix.

Author: Niloth-p

.github/workflows/zulip-ci.yml

@@ -17,12 +17,6 @@ jobs:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
         include:
-          # Focal ships with Python 3.8.10.
-          - docker_image: zulip/ci:focal
-            name: Ubuntu 20.04 (Python 3.8, backend)
-            os: focal
-            legacy_client_interface: "3"
-            server_version: refs/tags/3.2
           # Bullseye ships with Python 3.9.2.
           - docker_image: zulip/ci:bullseye
             name: Debian 11 (Python 3.9, backend)
@@ -35,6 +29,18 @@ jobs:
             os: jammy
             legacy_client_interface: "6"
             server_version: refs/tags/6.0
+          # Debian 12 ships with Python 3.11.2.
+          - docker_image: zulip/ci:bookworm
+            name: Debian 12 (Python 3.11, backend + documentation)
+            os: bookworm
+            legacy_client_interface: "7"
+            server_version: refs/tags/7.0
+          # Ubuntu 24.04 ships with Python 3.12.3.
+          - docker_image: zulip/ci:noble
+            name: Ubuntu 24.04 (Python 3.12, backend)
+            os: noble
+            legacy_client_interface: "8"
+            server_version: refs/tags/8.5
 
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     name: ${{ matrix.name }} (Zulip ${{matrix.server_version}})

.github/workflows/zulip-tests.yml

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ on:
   push:
     branches:
       - main
+      - ci-12
   pull_request:
 
 jobs:
@@ -13,10 +14,10 @@ jobs:
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
-      - 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 dependencies
         run: tools/provision --force
@@ -32,7 +33,7 @@ jobs:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
         os: [ubuntu-latest, windows-latest]
-        python-version: ["3.8", "3.9", "3.10", "3.11"]
+        python-version: ["3.9", "3.10", "3.11", "3.12"]
 
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4

pyproject.toml

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [tool.black]
 line-length = 100
-target-version = ["py38"]
+target-version = ["py39"]
 
 [tool.isort]
 src_paths = [

zulip/README.md

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 The [Zulip API](https://zulip.com/api) Python bindings require the
 following dependencies:
 
-* **Python (version >= 3.8)**
+* **Python (version >= 3.9)**
 * requests (version >= 0.12.1)
 
 **Note**: If you'd like to use the Zulip bindings with Python 2, we

zulip/setup.py

@@ -42,12 +42,12 @@ def recur_expand(target_root: Any, dir: Any) -> Generator[Tuple[str, List[str]],
         "License :: OSI Approved :: Apache Software License",
         "Topic :: Communications :: Chat",
         "Programming Language :: Python :: 3",
-        "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",
     ],
-    python_requires=">=3.8",
+    python_requires=">=3.9",
     url="https://www.zulip.org/",
     project_urls={
         "Source": "https://github.com/zulip/python-zulip-api/",

zulip_bots/setup.py

@@ -32,12 +32,12 @@
         "License :: OSI Approved :: Apache Software License",
         "Topic :: Communications :: Chat",
         "Programming Language :: Python :: 3",
-        "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",
     ],
-    python_requires=">=3.8",
+    python_requires=">=3.9",
     url="https://www.zulip.org/",
     project_urls={
         "Source": "https://github.com/zulip/python-zulip-api/",
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@
         "lxml",
         "BeautifulSoup4",
         "typing_extensions>=4.5.0",
-        'importlib-metadata >= 3.6; python_version  < "3.10"',
+        "importlib-metadata >= 3.6",
     ],
     packages=find_packages(),
     package_data=package_data,

zulip_bots/zulip_bots/finder.py

@@ -35,11 +35,6 @@ class DuplicateRegisteredBotNameError(Exception):
 
 
 def import_module_from_zulip_bot_registry(name: str) -> Tuple[str, Optional[ModuleType]]:
-    # Prior to Python 3.10, calling importlib.metadata.entry_points returns a
-    # SelectableGroups object when no parameters is given. Currently we use
-    # the importlib_metadata library for compatibility, but we need to migrate
-    # to the built-in library when we start to adapt Python 3.10.
-    # https://importlib-metadata.readthedocs.io/en/latest/using.html#entry-points
     registered_bots = metadata.entry_points(group="zulip_bots.registry")
     matching_bots = [bot for bot in registered_bots if bot.name == name]
 

zulip_botserver/setup.py

@@ -20,12 +20,12 @@
         "License :: OSI Approved :: Apache Software License",
         "Topic :: Communications :: Chat",
         "Programming Language :: Python :: 3",
-        "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",
     ],
-    python_requires=">=3.8",
+    python_requires=">=3.9",
     url="https://www.zulip.org/",
     project_urls={
         "Source": "https://github.com/zulip/python-zulip-api/",