From 31d7e16784d18556ecd34b6ebfc1b003cd573f0d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matt Lawler <matthewlawler99@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2026 14:46:56 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] chore: require Python 3.11+

Python 3.8 and 3.9 are end-of-life and 3.10 reaches end-of-life in
October 2026. Raise python_requires to >=3.11 and list only 3.11-3.14
in the classifiers.

CI now tests 3.11-3.14 (3.13 and 3.14 were declared but never tested),
and the mypy job and the PyPI build move off 3.9 and 3.8.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 .github/workflows/lint.yml    | 2 +-
 .github/workflows/publish.yml | 2 +-
 .github/workflows/test.yml    | 4 ++--
 CLAUDE.md                     | 2 +-
 assemblyai/__version__.py     | 2 +-
 setup.py                      | 5 +----
 tox.ini                       | 2 +-
 7 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/lint.yml b/.github/workflows/lint.yml
index 3b7a910d..0331e93a 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/lint.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/lint.yml
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ jobs:
       - uses: actions/setup-python@v4
         if: ${{ steps.counter.outputs.count > 0 }}
         with:
-          python-version: '3.9'
+          python-version: '3.11'
       - run: pip install mypy==1.5.1
         if: ${{ steps.counter.outputs.count > 0 }}
       - run: mypy ${{ steps.filter.outputs.python_files }} --follow-imports=silent --ignore-missing-imports
diff --git a/.github/workflows/publish.yml b/.github/workflows/publish.yml
index 93077b6a..35b65bc8 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/publish.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/publish.yml
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ jobs:
     - name: Set up Python
       uses: actions/setup-python@v4
       with:
-        python-version: "3.8"
+        python-version: "3.11"
     - name: Install pypa/build
       run: >-
         python -m
diff --git a/.github/workflows/test.yml b/.github/workflows/test.yml
index 1c7273fe..53057044 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/test.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/test.yml
@@ -21,10 +21,10 @@ jobs:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
         py:
+          - "3.14"
+          - "3.13"
           - "3.12"
           - "3.11"
-          - "3.10"
-          - "3.9"
         os:
           - ubuntu-22.04
     steps:
diff --git a/CLAUDE.md b/CLAUDE.md
index 51592ca2..942f0a05 100644
--- a/CLAUDE.md
+++ b/CLAUDE.md
@@ -597,7 +597,7 @@ client for it. Given alongside `client`, the key wins and the passed client is l
 - **`transcribe_async()` returns a `concurrent.futures.Future`**, not an asyncio coroutine. In asyncio code use `aai.AsyncTranscriber` (see "Asyncio transcription" above) — or `aai.AsyncSyncTranscriber` for the sync API
 - **LLM Gateway request params are `**kwargs`**: everything past `model`/`messages`/`stream` is forwarded verbatim, so there is no client-side check on the name — spell params carefully
 - **Timestamps are in milliseconds** throughout the SDK
-- **Minimum Python**: 3.8+
+- **Minimum Python**: 3.11+
 
 ## Dependencies
 
diff --git a/assemblyai/__version__.py b/assemblyai/__version__.py
index e4adfb83..14d9d2f5 100644
--- a/assemblyai/__version__.py
+++ b/assemblyai/__version__.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = "1.6.0"
+__version__ = "1.7.0"
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index bbde86d6..5a278edf 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -39,9 +39,6 @@ def get_version() -> str:
         "Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries",
         "Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules",
         "Programming Language :: Python :: 3",
-        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8",
-        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9",
-        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10",
         "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11",
         "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12",
         "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.13",
@@ -52,7 +49,7 @@ def get_version() -> str:
     url="https://github.com/AssemblyAI/assemblyai-python-sdk",
     license="MIT License",
     license_files=["LICENSE"],
-    python_requires=">=3.8",
+    python_requires=">=3.11",
     project_urls={
         "Code": "https://github.com/AssemblyAI/assemblyai-python-sdk",
         "Issues": "https://github.com/AssemblyAI/assemblyai-python-sdk/issues",
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index 7a7ab9bb..3f025e50 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 # blow-up. Floors track setup.py (pydantic>=1.10.17, websockets>=11, httpx>=0.19).
 [tox]
 envlist =
-    py{39,310,311,312}-latest
+    py{311,312,313,314}-latest
     py311-httpx{0.22,0.24}
     py311-pydantic1.10
     py311-websockets11.0