drop support for python v3.7 and v3.8

Author: 2bndy5

.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ jobs:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
         platform: [native, aarch64, armv7l]
-        python: [cp37, cp38, cp39, cp310, cp311, cp312, cp313]
+        python: [cp39, cp310, cp311, cp312, cp313]
         tag: [manylinux, musllinux]
     steps:
       - name: Checkout Current Repo

pyproject.toml

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # building cmake from pypi releases requires openssl-dev installed, so
 # just require users install cmake from apt when getting python-dev (CPython headers)
 requires = [
-    "setuptools>=61",
+    "setuptools>=77",
     "wheel",
     "setuptools_scm[toml]>=6.2"
 ]
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ classifiers = [
     "Topic :: System :: Networking",
     "Typing :: Typed",
 ]
-requires-python = ">=3.7"
+requires-python = ">=3.9"
 dependencies = ['typing-extensions; python_version < "3.13"']
 dynamic = ["version"]