Drop python 3.8

It was limiting our installation of cffi which caused
errors for cryptography and python 3.13.

.github/workflows/publish_to_pypi.yml

@@ -10,10 +10,10 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
     - uses: actions/checkout@v3
-    - name: Set up Python 3.8
+    - name: Set up Python 3.9
       uses: actions/setup-python@v5
       with:
-        python-version: 3.8
+        python-version: 3.9
     - name: Install poetry
       uses: snok/install-poetry@v1
     - name: Build and publish

.github/workflows/testing.yml

@@ -30,26 +30,14 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
-        python-version: [ "3.8", "3.9", "3.10", "3.11", "3.12"]
+        python-version: [ "3.9", "3.10", "3.11", "3.12", "3.13"]
         django-version: [ "4.2", "5.0", "5.1"]
         drf-version: [ "3.11", "3.12", "3.13" ]
         include:
-          # It's not worth it to run the full test suite
-          # with the bleeding-edge versions. When we drop 3.8
-          # we can move this up into the matrix.
-          - python-version: "3.13"
-            django-version: 5.1
-            drf-version: "3.13"
         exclude:
-          # Python 3.8 is incompatible with Django v5+
-          - django-version: 5.0
-            python-version: 3.8
           # Python 3.9 is incompatible with Django v5+
           - django-version: 5.0
             python-version: 3.9
-          # Python 3.8 is incompatible with Django v5+
-          - django-version: 5.1
-            python-version: 3.8
           # Python 3.9 is incompatible with Django v5+
           - django-version: 5.1
             python-version: 3.9

docs/install.rst

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Installation
 Requirements
 ------------
 
-* Python 3.8 and above
+* Python 3.9 and above
 * Django 4.2 and above
 
 You will also need the following: