dropping support for py3.8

Author: ahosler

.github/workflows/run-unittests-py39-py310.yml renamed to .github/workflows/run-unittests-py310-py312.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-name: "[Py3.9-3.11] - All Unit Tests"
+name: "[Py3.10-3.12] - All Unit Tests"
 
 on:
   workflow_dispatch:
@@ -33,15 +33,14 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
-        python-version: ["3.9", "3.10", "3.11"]
+        python-version: ["3.10", "3.11", "3.12"]
         name: ["unitary", "slow_tests"]
         include:
           - name: "unitary"
             test-path: "tests/unitary"
             # `model` tests running in "slow_tests",
             # `feature_store` tests has its own test suite
-            # `forecast` tests not supported in python 3.9,3.10 (automlx dependency). Tests are running in python3.8 test env, see run-unittests-py38-cov-report.yml
-            # 'pii' tests run only with py3.8, 'datapane' library conflicts with pandas>2.2.0, which used in py3.9/3.10 setup
+            # `forecast` tests not run in this suite
             # 'hpo' tests hangs if run together with all unitary tests. Tests running in separate command before running all unitary
             ignore-path: |
               --ignore tests/unitary/with_extras/model \

.github/workflows/run-unittests-py38-cov-report.yml renamed to .github/workflows/run-unittests-py39-cov-report.yml

@@ -45,7 +45,6 @@ classifiers = [
   "Intended Audience :: Developers",
   "License :: OSI Approved :: Universal Permissive License (UPL)",
   "Operating System :: OS Independent",
-  "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8",
   "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9",
   "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10",
   "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11",
@@ -66,8 +65,7 @@ dependencies = [
   "numpy>=1.19.2,<2.0.0",
   "oci>=2.144.1",
   "ocifs>=1.1.3",
-  "pandas>1.2.1; python_version<'3.9'", # starting pandas v2.1.0 requires-python = '>=3.9'
-  "pandas>=2.2.0; python_version>='3.9'",
+  "pandas>=2.2.0",
   "psutil>=5.7.2",
   "python_jsonschema_objects>=0.3.13",
   "requests",
@@ -145,7 +143,7 @@ torch = [
   "torchvision"
 ]
 viz = [
-  "bokeh>=3.0.0,<3.2.0",  # starting 3.2.0 bokeh not supporting python3.8; relax after ADS will drop py3.8 support
+  "bokeh",
   "folium>=0.12.1",
   "graphviz<0.17",
   "scipy>=1.5.4",
@@ -203,7 +201,7 @@ pii = [
   "scrubadub_spacy",
   "spacy-transformers==1.2.5",
   "spacy==3.6.1",
-  "report-creator>=1.0.32",
+  "report-creator>=1.0.37",
 ]
 llm = ["langchain>=0.2", "langchain-community", "langchain_openai", "pydantic>=2,<3", "evaluate>=0.4.0"]
 aqua = ["jupyter_server"]
@@ -227,10 +225,8 @@ testsuite = [
   "pdfplumber",
   "py4j",
   "pyarrow>=15.0.0",
-  "statsmodels; python_version=='3.8'",
-  "statsmodels>=0.14.1; python_version>='3.9'",  # cython3.0 compatibility added in v0.14.1
-  "tables",
-  "tables>3.9.0; python_version>='3.9'",
+  "statsmodels>=0.14.1",
+  "tables>3.9.0",
   "xlrd>=1.2.0",
 ]