Drop support for and remove references to EOL Python 3.6 (#11683)

* remove reference in comments to python3.6

* upgrade tox python env in script

* bump python version in example for completeness

* upgrade python version requirement in setup doc

* upgrade necessary python version in __init__.py

* upgrade python version in setup.py

* newsfragment

* drops refs to bionic and replace with focal

* bump refs to postgres 9.6 to 10

* fix hanging ci

* try installing tzdata first

* revert change made in b979f33

* ignore new random mypy error while debugging other error

* fix lint error for temporary workaround

* revert change to install list

* try passing env var

* export debian frontend var?

* move line and add comment

* bump pillow dependency

* bump lxml depenency

* install libjpeg-dev for pillow

* bump automat version to one compatible with py3.8

* add libwebp for pillow

* bump twisted trunk python version

* change suffix of newsfragment

* remove redundant python 3.7 checks

* lint

Author: H-Shay

.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
 

.github/workflows/twisted_trunk.yml

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ jobs:
       - run: sudo apt-get -qq install xmlsec1
       - uses: actions/setup-python@v2
         with:
-          python-version: 3.6
+          python-version: 3.7
       - run: .ci/patch_for_twisted_trunk.sh
       - run: pip install tox
       - run: tox -e py

changelog.d/11683.removal

@@ -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"
 }
 ```

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/app/_base.py

@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@
 import gc
 import logging
 import os
-import platform
 import signal
 import socket
 import sys
@@ -468,16 +467,12 @@ def run_sighup(*args: Any, **kwargs: Any) -> None:
     # everything currently allocated are things that will be used for the
     # rest of time. Doing so means less work each GC (hopefully).
     #
-    # This only works on Python 3.7
-    if platform.python_implementation() == "CPython" and sys.version_info >= (3, 7):
-        gc.collect()
-        gc.freeze()
+    gc.collect()
+    gc.freeze()
 
     # Speed up shutdowns by freezing all allocated objects. This moves everything
     # into the permanent generation and excludes them from the final GC.
-    # Unfortunately only works on Python 3.7
-    if platform.python_implementation() == "CPython" and sys.version_info >= (3, 7):
-        atexit.register(gc.freeze)
+    atexit.register(gc.freeze)
 
 
 def setup_sentry(hs: "HomeServer") -> None: