Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/main' into sfs

Author: hugovk

.github/workflows/tests.yml

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
-        branch: ["origin/main", "3.12", "3.11", "3.10", "3.9", "3.8"]
+        branch: ["origin/main", "3.12", "3.11", "3.10"]
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
       - uses: actions/setup-python@v5