Getting ready for release 1.11.2

Author: FrancescAlted

.github/workflows/build.yml

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       matrix:
         os: [ubuntu-latest, windows-latest, macos-latest]
-        python-version: ['3.8', '3.9', '3.10', '3.11']
+        python-version: ['3.9', '3.10', '3.11', '3.12']
 
     steps:
     - uses: actions/checkout@v3

.github/workflows/cibuildwheels.yml

@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Install Python
         uses: actions/setup-python@v4
         with:
-          python-version: '3.8'
+          python-version: '3.10'
 
       - name: Set up QEMU
         if: ${{ matrix.arch == 'aarch64' }}
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ jobs:
           python -m pip install cibuildwheel
           python -m cibuildwheel --output-dir wheelhouse
         env:
-          CIBW_BUILD: 'cp38-win32 cp39-win32 cp310-win32 cp311-win32'
+          CIBW_BUILD: 'cp39-win32 cp310-win32 cp311-win32 cp312-win32'
           CIBW_BEFORE_BUILD: pip install -r requirements.txt
           CIBW_BEFORE_TEST: pip install numpy
           CIBW_TEST_COMMAND: python -m blosc.test
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ jobs:
           python -m pip install cibuildwheel
           python -m cibuildwheel --output-dir wheelhouse
         env:
-          CIBW_BUILD: 'cp38-win_amd64 cp39-win_amd64 cp310-win_amd64 cp311-win_amd64'
+          CIBW_BUILD: 'cp39-win_amd64 cp310-win_amd64 cp311-win_amd64 cp312-win_amd64'
           CIBW_BEFORE_BUILD: pip install -r requirements.txt
           CIBW_BEFORE_TEST: pip install numpy
           CIBW_TEST_COMMAND: python -m blosc.test
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ jobs:
           python -m pip install cibuildwheel
           python -m cibuildwheel --output-dir wheelhouse
         env:
-          CIBW_BUILD: 'cp38-* cp39-* cp310-* cp311-*'
+          CIBW_BUILD: 'cp39-* cp310-* cp311-* cp312-*'
           CIBW_SKIP: '*-manylinux*_i686'
           CIBW_ARCHS_MACOS: "x86_64 arm64"
           CIBW_ARCHS_LINUX: ${{ matrix.arch }}
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ jobs:
       - uses: actions/setup-python@v4
         name: Setup Python
         with:
-          python-version: '3.8'
+          python-version: '3.10'
 
       - name: Install requirements
         run: |

ANNOUNCE.rst

@@ -1,12 +1,13 @@
 ==============================
-Announcing python-blosc 1.11.1
+Announcing python-blosc 1.11.2
 ==============================
 
 What is new?
 ============
 
 This is a maintenance release.  Besides coming with the latest C-Blosc
-sources (1.21.3), there are new arm64 wheels for MacOS.
+sources (1.21.6), there are new wheels for Python 3.12, as well as
+some fixes in the build process.
 
 In addition to extensions, we are distributing library
 binaries in the wheels too.  This way, people willing to use the C-Blosc

README.rst

@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ with relatively low entropy, like sparse data, time series, grids with
 regular-spaced values, etc.
 
 python-blosc a Python package that wraps Blosc.  python-blosc supports
-Python 3.8 or higher versions.
+Python 3.9 or higher versions.
 
 
 Installing

RELEASE_NOTES.rst

@@ -11,7 +11,15 @@
 Changes from 1.11.1 to 1.11.2
 =============================
 
-#XXX version-specific blurb XXX#
+* Add support for NumPy 2.0. Thanks to Michał Górny.
+
+* Internal C-Blosc sources updated to 1.21.6.
+
+* Add assembly source in MANIFEST.in. Thanks to Ben Hekster.
+
+* Deprecated support for Python 3.8 and added support for Python 3.12.
+
+* Some fixes in the building process.
 
 
 Changes from 1.11.0 to 1.11.1

VERSION

@@ -1 +1 @@
-1.11.2.dev0
+1.11.2

setup.py

@@ -53,10 +53,10 @@ def cmake_bool(cond):
     Intended Audience :: Science/Research
     License :: OSI Approved :: BSD License
     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 :: Only
     Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules
     Topic :: System :: Archiving :: Compression
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ def cmake_bool(cond):
         description = 'Blosc data compressor',
         long_description = long_description,
         classifiers = [c for c in classifiers.split("\n") if c],
-        python_requires=">=3.8",
+        python_requires=">=3.9",
         author = 'The Blosc development team',
         author_email = 'blosc@blosc.org',
         maintainer = 'The Blosc development team',