fix: dropped official support for python 3.8

Author: bih

.github/workflows/deploy.yml

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ jobs:
 
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        python-version: ["3", "3.8", "3.9", "3.10", "3.11", "3.12"]
+        python-version: ["3", "3.9", "3.10", "3.11", "3.12"]
 
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@master
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Set up Python ${{ matrix.python-version }}
         uses: actions/setup-python@master
         with:
-          python-version: 3.8
+          python-version: 3.9
       - name: Install Python dependencies
         run: ./__tests__/setup-pip.sh
       - name: Build Docs
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Set up Python ${{ matrix.python-version }}
         uses: actions/setup-python@master
         with:
-          python-version: 3.8
+          python-version: 3.9
       - name: Build Python distribution
         run: |
           pip install wheel

.github/workflows/test.yml

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ jobs:
 
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        python-version: ["3", "3.8", "3.9", "3.10", "3.11", "3.12"]
+        python-version: ["3", "3.9", "3.10", "3.11", "3.12"]
 
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@main

README.md

@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ $ tree .
 
 ## Supported Versions
 
-- Python 3.8, 3.9, 3.10, 3.11, 3.12
+- Python 3.9, 3.10, 3.11, 3.12
 - [Mkdocs] 1.0.4 and above.
 
 ## Changelog

__tests__/test-local.sh

@@ -23,12 +23,10 @@ echo "Running E2E tests via Bats in Docker (python:$1) -------->"
 docker run -it -w /workspace -v $(pwd):/workspace mkdocs-monorepo-test-runner:$1
 }
 
-if [[ ! -z "$PYTHON_37_ONLY" ]]; then
-  docker_run_integration_tests "3.7-slim"
+if [[ ! -z "$PYTHON_39_ONLY" ]]; then
+  docker_run_integration_tests "3.9-slim"
 else
   docker_run_integration_tests "3-slim"
-  docker_run_integration_tests "3.7-slim"
-  docker_run_integration_tests "3.8-slim"
   docker_run_integration_tests "3.9-slim"
   docker_run_integration_tests "3.10-slim"
   docker_run_integration_tests "3.11-slim"

docs/CHANGELOG.md

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 - Remove use of warning_filter (deprecated) [#108]
 - add support for monorepos with symlink folders [#122]
 - Fix edit URL for included projects with nested site_name [#128]
+- Dropped official support for Python 3.8
 
 ## 1.1.0
 

docs/CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -145,10 +145,10 @@ The command below will use Docker to run our test suites in numerous Python vers
 $ ./__tests__/test-local.sh
 ```
 
-For faster tests, you can opt to run in Python 3.7 rather than all supported Python versions:
+For faster tests, you can opt to run in Python 3.9 rather than all supported Python versions:
 
 ```terminal
-$ PYTHON_37_ONLY=1 ./__tests__/test-local.sh
+$ PYTHON_39_ONLY=1 ./__tests__/test-local.sh
 ```
 
 [GitHub Actions] will always execute tests a little faster (due to parallelization) when you push your branch. Due to this, you can choose to opt of running them locally if you wish!

docs/index.md

@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ $ tree .
 
 ## Supported Versions
 
-- Python 3 — 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, 3.10, 3.11
+- Python 3 — 3.9, 3.10, 3.11
 - [Mkdocs] 1.0.4 and above.
 
 ## License

setup.py

@@ -14,15 +14,14 @@
     author="Bilawal Hameed",
     author_email="bil@spotify.com",
     license="Apache-2.0",
-    python_requires=">=3",
+    python_requires=">=3.9",
     install_requires=["mkdocs>=1.0.4", "python-slugify>=4.0.1"],
     classifiers=[
         "Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable",
         "Intended Audience :: Developers",
         "Intended Audience :: Information Technology",
         "Programming Language :: Python",
         "Programming Language :: Python :: 3 :: Only",
-        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8",
         "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9",
         "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10",
         "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11",