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Shahar Epstein f92281e1d0 Drop Python 3.10 from CI, Breeze and the container images (#74151)
* Drop Python 3.10 from CI, Breeze and the container images

Python 3.10 reaches end of life in October 2026 and more and more of
Airflow's dependencies have already dropped it, which makes the 3.10
leg the slowest and most fragile part of CI. This is the first layer
of the stack that moves the baseline to Python 3.11: Breeze stops
offering 3.10, the default Python for CI, Breeze and the images moves
to 3.11, and the PGP path for verifying the Python tarball goes away
because every remaining version ships Sigstore bundles.

Python 3.10 stays in the historical version lists that Breeze uses to
reason about older Airflow releases, and in the CI image restore
action that release branches still rely on. The distributions still
declare Python 3.10 in this layer; layer 7 bumps them once the code
no longer carries 3.10-only constructs. Until then the provider
metadata generator keeps its own 3.10-inclusive version list, and the
prek minimum-Python check keeps 3.10 because its script header still
pins it to a 3.10 interpreter until layer 2.

The shared-distribution and scripts test jobs run uv without an
interpreter pin, so uv picks the runner's system Python, which is 3.10
on the current images. Pinning them to the default CI Python keeps them
on a supported interpreter regardless of the runner image.

The image build speed check builds the CI image from the registry cache
within a fixed budget. A PR that changes install_os_dependencies.sh or
the embedded GPG keys misses the cache for the layer that compiles
Python from source. That compile took about 4.5 minutes for Python 3.10
but 11 to 18 minutes for 3.11 and newer on hosted runners, so the
budget is raised to fit a cold Python 3.11+ build.

* Explain when to drop a Python version from the CI version list

The comment above ALL_PYTHON_MAJOR_MINOR_VERSIONS described only keeping
dropped versions so cherry-picks to older branches stay tested. Python
3.10 is removed from the list because the 3.10 drop is also cherry-picked
to v3-4-test, so no release branch that still receives cherry-picks from
main supports 3.10. The comment now spells out both phases so the next
version drop follows the same rule.

The Docker image changelog gets its Python 3.10 entry under Airflow 3.4.0
here, next to the image change itself, as was done for Python 3.9.
2026-10-06 23:20:46 +02:00

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---
version: 2
formats: []
sphinx:
configuration: devel-common/src/docs/rtd-deprecation/conf.py
python:
version: "3.11"
install:
- method: pip
path: .
extra_requirements:
- doc
system_packages: true