build!: dropped support for Python 3.8

and bumped package version to 3.8.0

.github/workflows/check-reserved-keywords.yml

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ jobs:
     - name: setup python
       uses: actions/setup-python@v5
       with:
-        python-version: 3.8
+        python-version: 3.12
 
     - name: Install pip
       run: pip install -r requirements/pip.txt

.github/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       matrix:
         os: [ ubuntu-20.04, ubuntu-latest ]
-        python-version: ['3.8', '3.11', '3.12']
+        python-version: ['3.11', '3.12']
         toxenv: [quality, docs, django42-drf315, django42-drflatest]
 
     steps:

.github/workflows/migrations-check.yml

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       matrix:
         os: [ ubuntu-20.04, ubuntu-latest ]
-        python-version: [ 3.8 ]
+        python-version: [ 3.12 ]
 
     steps:
     - name: Checkout repo

.github/workflows/pypi-publish.yml

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: setup python
         uses: actions/setup-python@v5
         with:
-          python-version: 3.8
+          python-version: 3.12
 
       - name: Install pip
         run: pip install -r requirements/pip.txt

.github/workflows/upgrade-python-requirements.yml

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ jobs:
     uses: openedx/.github/.github/workflows/upgrade-python-requirements.yml@master
     with:
       branch: ${{ github.event.inputs.branch || 'master' }}
-      python_version: "3.8"
+      python_version: "3.12"
       # optional parameters below; fill in if you'd like github or email notifications
       # user_reviewers: ""
       # team_reviewers: ""

README.rst

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ To run the test suite:
 .. code:: bash
 
     pip install tox
-    tox # to run only a single environment, do e.g. tox -e py38-django42-drf314
+    tox # to run only a single environment, do e.g. tox -e py312-django42-drflatest
 
 
 To use a Django shell to test commands:

setup.py

@@ -142,7 +142,6 @@ def get_version(*file_paths):
         'Operating System :: OS Independent',
         'Programming Language :: Python',
         'Programming Language :: Python :: 3',
-        'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8',
         'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11',
         'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12',
     ],

submissions/__init__.py

@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 """ API for creating submissions and scores. """
-__version__ = '3.7.9'
+__version__ = '3.8.0'

tox.ini

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [tox]
-envlist = py{38,311,312}-django{42}-drf{315,latest}, quality, docs
+envlist = py{311,312}-django{42}-drf{315,latest}, quality, docs
 
 [testenv]
 setenv =