Dear IntelMQ community

With Ubuntu 20.04 as our oldest supported target platform using Python 3.8 and all other platforms using newer Python versions, it is time to drop IntelMQ's official support for Python 3.7 in the subsequent releases[0] The Security support for 3.7 has ended in June 2023.

What does that mean in practice? We no longer run the test suites on 3.7 and IntelMQ requires Python 3.8 at installation time.

If you're running IntelMQ on an older system, we strongly recommend upgrading your environment to ensure it remains secure and up-to-date. Should you require assistance with the upgrade process, please don't hesitate to contact us for support.[1]

At the other end of the spectrum, we added 3.12 and 3.13 to our test suite, which already revealed the issue with the cif3 output bot as you read in my other e-mail today.

[0]: https://github.com/certtools/intelmq/pull/2541 [1]: https://docs.intelmq.org/latest/help/#assistance