[Mgmt Core] Prepare release (#41883)

Signed-off-by: Paul Van Eck <paulvaneck@microsoft.com>

Author: pvaneck

sdk/core/azure-mgmt-core/CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
 # Release History
 
-## 1.5.1 (2023-XX-XX)
+## 1.6.0 (2025-07-02)
 
 ### Other Changes
 
 - `ARMChallengeAuthenticationPolicy` adopt `on_challenge` in `BearerTokenCredentialPolicy` of `azure-core` to support complete CAE challenges.
+- Python 3.8 is no longer supported. Please use Python version 3.9 or later.
 
 ## 1.5.0 (2024-10-31)
 

sdk/core/azure-mgmt-core/azure/mgmt/core/_version.py

@@ -9,4 +9,4 @@
 # regenerated.
 # --------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-VERSION = "1.5.1"
+VERSION = "1.6.0"

sdk/core/azure-mgmt-core/dev_requirements.txt

@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
-trio; python_version >= '3.5'
-aiohttp>=3.0; python_version >= '3.5'
+trio
+aiohttp>=3.0
 typing_extensions>=3.7.2
--e ../azure-core
-mock;python_version<="2.7"
+../azure-core
 httpretty
--e ../../../tools/azure-sdk-tools
+-e ../../../tools/azure-sdk-tools

sdk/core/azure-mgmt-core/setup.py

@@ -49,11 +49,11 @@
         "Programming Language :: Python",
         "Programming Language :: Python :: 3 :: Only",
         "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",
+        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.13",
         "License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License",
     ],
     zip_safe=False,
@@ -71,5 +71,5 @@
     install_requires=[
         "azure-core>=1.32.0",
     ],
-    python_requires=">=3.8",
+    python_requires=">=3.9",
 )