Drop support for and remove references to EOL Python 3.6

.ci/scripts/test_old_deps.sh

@@ -1,12 +1,14 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
-
-# this script is run by GitHub Actions in a plain `bionic` container; it installs the
+# this script is run by GitHub Actions in a plain `focal` container; it installs the
 # minimal requirements for tox and hands over to the py3-old tox environment.
 
+# Prevent tzdata from asking for user input
+export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
+
 set -ex
 
 apt-get update
-apt-get install -y python3 python3-dev python3-pip libxml2-dev libxslt-dev xmlsec1 zlib1g-dev tox
+apt-get install -y python3 python3-dev python3-pip libxml2-dev libxslt-dev xmlsec1 zlib1g-dev tox libjpeg-dev libwebp-dev
 
 export LANG="C.UTF-8"
 

.github/workflows/tests.yml

@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ jobs:
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v2
       - name: Test with old deps
-        uses: docker://ubuntu:bionic # For old python and sqlite
+        uses: docker://ubuntu:focal # For old python and sqlite
         with:
           workdir: /github/workspace
           entrypoint: .ci/scripts/test_old_deps.sh
@@ -213,15 +213,15 @@ jobs:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
         include:
-          - sytest-tag: bionic
+          - sytest-tag: focal
 
-          - sytest-tag: bionic
+          - sytest-tag: focal
             postgres: postgres
 
           - sytest-tag: testing
             postgres: postgres
 
-          - sytest-tag: bionic
+          - sytest-tag: focal
             postgres: multi-postgres
             workers: workers
 

changelog.d/11683.misc

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Drop support for Python 3.6, which is EOL.

docker/Dockerfile-pgtests

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Use the Sytest image that comes with a lot of the build dependencies
 # pre-installed
-FROM matrixdotorg/sytest:bionic
+FROM matrixdotorg/sytest:focal
 
 # The Sytest image doesn't come with python, so install that
 RUN apt-get update && apt-get -qq install -y python3 python3-dev python3-pip

docker/run_pg_tests.sh

@@ -16,4 +16,4 @@ sudo -u postgres /usr/lib/postgresql/10/bin/pg_ctl -w -D /var/lib/postgresql/dat
 # Run the tests
 cd /src
 export TRIAL_FLAGS="-j 4"
-tox --workdir=./.tox-pg-container -e py36-postgres "$@"
+tox --workdir=./.tox-pg-container -e py37-postgres "$@"

docs/admin_api/version_api.md

@@ -16,6 +16,6 @@ It returns a JSON body like the following:
 ```json
 {
     "server_version": "0.99.2rc1 (b=develop, abcdef123)",
-    "python_version": "3.6.8"
+    "python_version": "3.7.8"
 }
 ```

docs/setup/installation.md

@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ When following this route please make sure that the [Platform-specific prerequis
 System requirements:
 
 - POSIX-compliant system (tested on Linux & OS X)
-- Python 3.6 or later, up to Python 3.9.
+- Python 3.7 or later, up to Python 3.10.
 - At least 1GB of free RAM if you want to join large public rooms like #matrix:matrix.org
 
 To install the Synapse homeserver run:

setup.py

@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ def exec_file(path_segments):
     zip_safe=False,
     long_description=long_description,
     long_description_content_type="text/x-rst",
-    python_requires="~=3.6",
+    python_requires="~=3.7",
     entry_points={
         "console_scripts": [
             "synapse_homeserver = synapse.app.homeserver:main",

synapse/__init__.py

@@ -21,8 +21,8 @@
 import sys
 
 # Check that we're not running on an unsupported Python version.
-if sys.version_info < (3, 6):
-    print("Synapse requires Python 3.6 or above.")
+if sys.version_info < (3, 7):
+    print("Synapse requires Python 3.7 or above.")
     sys.exit(1)
 
 # Twisted and canonicaljson will fail to import when this file is executed to

synapse/python_dependencies.py

@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@
     "pyasn1>=0.1.9",
     "pyasn1-modules>=0.0.7",
     "bcrypt>=3.1.0",
-    "pillow>=4.3.0",
+    "pillow>=5.4.0",
     "sortedcontainers>=1.4.4",
     "pymacaroons>=0.13.0",
     "msgpack>=0.5.2",
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@
     # `systemd.journal.JournalHandler`, as is documented in
     # `contrib/systemd/log_config.yaml`.
     "systemd": ["systemd-python>=231"],
-    "url_preview": ["lxml>=3.5.0"],
+    "url_preview": ["lxml>=4.2.0"],
     "sentry": ["sentry-sdk>=0.7.2"],
     "opentracing": ["jaeger-client>=4.0.0", "opentracing>=2.2.0"],
     "jwt": ["pyjwt>=1.6.4"],

synapse/storage/engines/postgres.py

@@ -46,8 +46,8 @@ def check_database(self, db_conn, allow_outdated_version: bool = False):
         self._version = db_conn.server_version
 
         # Are we on a supported PostgreSQL version?
-        if not allow_outdated_version and self._version < 90600:
-            raise RuntimeError("Synapse requires PostgreSQL 9.6 or above.")
+        if not allow_outdated_version and self._version < 100000:
+            raise RuntimeError("Synapse requires PostgreSQL 10 or above.")
 
         with db_conn.cursor() as txn:
             txn.execute("SHOW SERVER_ENCODING")

tox.ini

@@ -117,8 +117,7 @@ usedevelop=true
 skip_install = true
 usedevelop = false
 deps =
-    # Old automat version for Twisted
-    Automat == 0.3.0
+    Automat == 0.8.0
     lxml
     {[base]deps}