+1 Python 3.9 is EOL. We shouldn't be encouraging users to stay on EOL versions of Python.
This can be our community's contribution towards the Python ecosystem's migration off 3.9. It's great to help out our fellow OSS projects! On Mon, Oct 6, 2025 at 8:48 AM Honah J. <[email protected]> wrote: > +1 to remove 3.9 support. Thanks for driving this! > > Best regards, > Jonas (Honah) > > On Sun, Oct 5, 2025 at 10:07 PM Jean-Baptiste Onofré <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> +1 >> >> It makes sense to me. >> >> Thanks ! >> Regards >> JB >> >> On Sun, Sep 28, 2025 at 7:06 AM Fokko Driesprong <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > >> > Hi everyone, >> > >> > I wanted to check if there are any objections to dropping Python 3.9 >> support. Dropping means that we won't publish 3.9 wheels anymore. >> > >> > The two main reasons to do this: >> > >> > Reduce the CI cost when we add 3.13 >> > Downstream projects like numpy and ray often support three Python >> versions. If we want to support more, we have to have conditional >> dependencies based on the Python version. This makes Poetry very slow, as >> the work effectively doubles. >> > >> > Python 3.9 is marked as EoL next week. Around 5% of the downloads are >> Python 3.9. But as Kevin pointed out, most of that will probably be our CI. >> > >> > Let us know if there are any objections! >> > >> > Kind regards, >> > Fokko >> > >> >
