Drop support for 3.8 and 3.9

Author: timvink

.github/workflows/unittests.yml

@@ -5,11 +5,11 @@ jobs:
     name: Run unit tests
     runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
     env:
-      USING_COVERAGE: '3.10'
+      USING_COVERAGE: '3.12'
     strategy:
       matrix:
         os: [ubuntu-latest, macos-latest, windows-latest]
-        python-version: [3.8, 3.9, "3.10", "3.11", "3.12"]
+        python-version: ["3.10", "3.11", "3.12", "3.13", "3.14"]
     steps:
     - uses: actions/checkout@master
 

.github/workflows/unittests_codecov.yml

@@ -13,11 +13,11 @@ jobs:
     name: Run unit tests with codecov upload
     runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
     env:
-      USING_COVERAGE: '3.10'
+      USING_COVERAGE: '3.12'
     strategy:
       matrix:
         os: [ubuntu-latest, macos-latest, windows-latest]
-        python-version: [3.8, 3.9, "3.10", "3.11", "3.12", "3.13"]
+        python-version: ["3.10", "3.11", "3.12", "3.13", "3.14"]
     steps:
     - uses: actions/checkout@master
 

pyproject.toml

@@ -22,12 +22,11 @@ classifiers=[
     "Operating System :: OS Independent",
     "Programming Language :: Python",
     "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",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.14",
     "License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License",
 ]
 
@@ -36,7 +35,6 @@ dependencies = [
     "babel>=2.7.0",
     "gitpython>=3.1.44",
     "mkdocs>=1.0",
-    "pytz>=2025.1",
 ]
 
 [project.urls]