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The 1.3 release being scheduled for the first half of june, it's time to think about bumping the min dependencies.
Up to now we've been trying to roughly follow NEP29 regarding supported Python versions. According to this timeline we should drop support for python 3.8 in april 2023, hence for the 1.3 release. @scikit-learn/core-devs do we agree on this ?
Dropping support for python3.8 means bumping numpy min version to 1.19.3 (currently 1.17.3) according to oldest-supported-numpy
Scipy min version has already been bumped in #24665.
Pytest has also already been bumped in #26373.
Joblib min version is just 1 release before the latest so we probably don't want to bump it yet.
Any objection or request ?