chore: drop python 3.8 support

.github/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       matrix:
         os: [ubuntu-20.04]
-        python-version: ['3.8', '3.11']
+        python-version: ['3.11']
         toxenv: [quality, docs, django42-drflatest]
 
     steps:
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ jobs:
       run: tox
 
     - name: Run coverage
-      if: matrix.python-version == '3.8' && matrix.toxenv == 'django42-drflatest'
+      if: matrix.python-version == '3.11' && matrix.toxenv == 'django42-drflatest'
       uses: codecov/codecov-action@v4
       with:
         token: ${{ secrets.CODECOV_TOKEN }}

.github/workflows/pypi-publish.yml

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: setup python
         uses: actions/setup-python@v5
         with:
-          python-version: 3.8
+          python-version: 3.11
 
       - name: Install pip
         run: pip install -r requirements/pip.txt

.gitignore

@@ -72,3 +72,4 @@ test.tmp
 
 # vscode
 .vscode
+venv

requirements/base.txt

@@ -1,29 +1,24 @@
 #
-# This file is autogenerated by pip-compile with Python 3.8
+# This file is autogenerated by pip-compile with Python 3.11
 # by the following command:
 #
 #    make upgrade
 #
 asgiref==3.8.1
     # via django
-backports-zoneinfo==0.2.1 ; python_version < "3.9"
-    # via
-    #   -c requirements/constraints.txt
-    #   django
-    #   djangorestframework
-certifi==2024.2.2
+certifi==2024.7.4
     # via requests
-cffi==1.16.0
+cffi==1.17.0
     # via
     #   cryptography
     #   pynacl
 charset-normalizer==3.3.2
     # via requests
 click==8.1.7
     # via edx-django-utils
-cryptography==42.0.5
+cryptography==43.0.0
     # via pyjwt
-django==4.2.11
+django==4.2.15
     # via
     #   -c requirements/common_constraints.txt
     #   -r requirements/base.in
@@ -38,47 +33,47 @@ django-waffle==4.1.0
     # via
     #   -r requirements/base.in
     #   edx-django-utils
-djangorestframework==3.15.1
+djangorestframework==3.15.2
     # via
     #   -r requirements/base.in
     #   drf-jwt
+dnspython==2.6.1
+    # via pymongo
 drf-jwt==1.19.2
     # via -r requirements/base.in
-edx-django-utils==5.11.0
+edx-django-utils==5.15.0
     # via -r requirements/base.in
-edx-opaque-keys==2.5.1
+edx-opaque-keys==2.10.0
     # via -r requirements/base.in
-idna==3.6
+idna==3.7
     # via requests
-newrelic==9.8.0
+newrelic==9.13.0
     # via edx-django-utils
 pbr==6.0.0
     # via stevedore
-psutil==5.9.8
+psutil==6.0.0
     # via edx-django-utils
-pycparser==2.21
+pycparser==2.22
     # via cffi
-pyjwt[crypto]==2.8.0
+pyjwt[crypto]==2.9.0
     # via
     #   -r requirements/base.in
     #   drf-jwt
-pymongo==3.13.0
+pymongo==4.8.0
     # via edx-opaque-keys
 pynacl==1.5.0
     # via edx-django-utils
-requests==2.31.0
+requests==2.32.3
     # via -r requirements/base.in
 semantic-version==2.10.0
     # via -r requirements/base.in
-sqlparse==0.4.4
+sqlparse==0.5.1
     # via django
-stevedore==5.2.0
+stevedore==5.3.0
     # via
     #   edx-django-utils
     #   edx-opaque-keys
-typing-extensions==4.10.0
-    # via
-    #   asgiref
-    #   edx-opaque-keys
-urllib3==2.2.1
+typing-extensions==4.12.2
+    # via edx-opaque-keys
+urllib3==2.2.2
     # via requests

requirements/common_constraints.txt

@@ -17,16 +17,15 @@ Django<5.0
 
 # elasticsearch>=7.14.0 includes breaking changes in it which caused issues in discovery upgrade process.
 # elastic search changelog: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/enterprise-search/master/release-notes-7.14.0.html
+# See https://github.com/openedx/edx-platform/issues/35126 for more info
 elasticsearch<7.14.0
 
 # django-simple-history>3.0.0 adds indexing and causes a lot of migrations to be affected
 django-simple-history==3.0.0
 
-# opentelemetry requires version 6.x at the moment:
-# https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python/issues/3570
-# Normally this could be added as a constraint in edx-django-utils, where we're
-# adding the opentelemetry dependency. However, when we compile pip-tools.txt,
-# that uses version 7.x, and then there's no undoing that when compiling base.txt.
-# So we need to pin it globally, for now.
-# Ticket for unpinning: https://github.com/openedx/edx-lint/issues/407
-importlib-metadata<7
+# Cause: https://github.com/openedx/event-tracking/pull/290
+# event-tracking 2.4.1 upgrades to pymongo 4.4.0 which is not supported on edx-platform.
+# We will pin event-tracking to do not break existing installations
+# This can be unpinned once https://github.com/openedx/edx-platform/issues/34586
+# has been resolved and edx-platform is running with pymongo>=4.4.0
+event-tracking<2.4.1