Add Python3.13 support and remove Python 3.8 support #2287
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One minor question. I think we should have a release note for this to comment that Aer now supports Python 3.13 - it's of interest to users.
When we're ready to merge, we can modify the branch-protection rules to allow merging with the new CI setup, since GitHub's still currently waiting for 3.8, 3.12.0, which don't run now.
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cvxpy 1.5.4 also doesn't have Python 3.13 wheels (though it's just a test dependency, not a build one). If 1.5.4 works, is there any chance that 1.6.0 works too, and we can just completely remove the upper bound?
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I'm reluctant to remove upper bounds in a project like Aer which is in maintenance mode, so the main pitfalls to handle are incompatible new version of libraries.
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Yeah, that seems like a good idea for the dev requirement.
Summary
This PR adds Python 3.13 support for building wheels and removes Python 3.8 which was dropped by qiskit version 1.3.
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The version of cibuildwheel was updated to the latest 2.22 to ensure support for Python 3.13.