Woa, time flies! Sounds like an excellent plan, Orest. Let's not continue to support versions that are EOL. This is in line how we previously dropped old versions. Are you interesed in raising a PR?
Kind regards, Fokko Sent with Proton Mail secure email. On Wednesday, October 28th, 2026 at 07:37, Orest Tokovenko <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Python 3.10 reached end of life on 2026-10-01 and the Python devguide > now lists it as unsupported, and in addition, pyarrow (major > dependency for pyiceberg) no longer ships 3.10 wheels with 26.x.x, > which means users installing it get pyarrow 25.x.x while users > installing 3.11+ get 26.x.x (this would also allow us to bump the > floor from >=18.0.0 to >=26.0.0). One more bonus is deleting some code > that gates the version, specifically pyiceberg/io/pyarrow.py L459 and > pyiceberg/io/pyarrow.py L561. > > I would like to drop 3.10 and set `requires-python to >=3.11`, and > raise the floor version on some libraries that rely on 3.10, as well > as remove those version gates that aren't needed. This can all live in > one PR since it's tightly coupled changes. Users on 3.10 can stay on > the last release that supports it, the same way this was handled 3.9 > last year and 3.8 before that. > > Thanks, > Orest >
