Raise minimum Python version to 3.8

Debian 11 bullseye has Python 3.9
Ubuntu 20.04 has Python 3.8

.github/workflows/unittests.yml

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
-        python-version: ['3.7', '3.8', '3.9', '3.10', '3.11']
+        python-version: ['3.8', '3.9', '3.10', '3.11', '3.12', '3.13']
         type: ['full', 'basic']
 
     services:

NEWS.md

@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ Please refer to the change log for a full list of changes.
 ---------------------------------
 
 ### Requirements
+Python 3.8 or newer is required
 
 ### Tools
 
@@ -36,7 +37,7 @@ No changes are required by administrators.
 ----------------------------------
 
 ### Documentation
-The documentation is now available at [docs.intelmq.org](https://docs.intelmq.org/). Documentation has been updated and restructured into User, Administrator and Developer Guide. It provides modern look with various quality of life improvements. Big thanks to to @gethvi. 
+The documentation is now available at [docs.intelmq.org](https://docs.intelmq.org/). Documentation has been updated and restructured into User, Administrator and Developer Guide. It provides modern look with various quality of life improvements. Big thanks to to @gethvi.
 We now have a slick, modern mkdocs based documentation. Please do check it out!
 
 
@@ -55,7 +56,7 @@ Shadowserver adds new scans on a nearly weekly basis. IntelMQ's release cycle an
 We therefore (thanks to @eslif2) move the shadowserver reports collector and parser to a new, dynamic system. It can:
 
  - fetch the shadowserver schema from shadowserver (https://interchange.shadowserver.org/intelmq/v1/schema)
- - dynamically collect new reports (see also https://docs.intelmq.org/latest/user/bots/?h=shadow#shadowserver-reports-api) 
+ - dynamically collect new reports (see also https://docs.intelmq.org/latest/user/bots/?h=shadow#shadowserver-reports-api)
  - parse the new reports
 
 **Note well**: if your IntelMQ system runs in an airgapped environment or if it may only reach out to specific IPs/sites, you should read the notes here:
@@ -86,7 +87,7 @@ Quite a few changes (thanks to Kamil, @gethvi) on AMQP
 ### General changes and bug fixes
 
 Digital Trust Center fixed a bug where the config was loaded twice in intelmqctl which created quite some speedups. Thanks!
-This speeds up IntelMQ API calls. 
+This speeds up IntelMQ API calls.
 
 ### Data Format
 

setup.py

@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@
     'redis>=2.10',
     'requests>=2.2.0',
     'ruamel.yaml',
-    'importlib-metadata; python_version < "3.8"'
 ]
 
 TESTS_REQUIRES = [
@@ -56,7 +55,7 @@
     version=__version__,  # noqa: F821
     maintainer='Sebastian Wagner',
     maintainer_email='[email protected]',
-    python_requires='>=3.7',
+    python_requires='>=3.8',
     install_requires=REQUIRES,
     tests_require=TESTS_REQUIRES,
     test_suite='intelmq.tests',
@@ -85,11 +84,11 @@
         'Operating System :: POSIX :: Linux',
         'Programming Language :: Python',
         'Programming Language :: Python :: 3',
-        'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.7',
-        '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 :: Only',
         'Programming Language :: Python :: Implementation :: CPython',
         'Topic :: Security',