Upgrade minimum Python version for test and build workflows + actions

.github/workflows/build.yml

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ on:
       confirm_ref:
         description: "Confirm chosen branch name to deploy to PyPI (optional):"
         default: ""
+
       override_version:
         description: "Override version number (optional):"
         default: ""
@@ -14,58 +15,68 @@ jobs:
   build:
     name: Build distribution 📦
     runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
+
     strategy:
       matrix:
         os: [ubuntu-latest, windows-latest, macOS-latest]
 
     env:
-      # Set up wheels matrix.  This is CPython 3.10--3.14 for all OS targets.
-      CIBW_BUILD: "cp3{10,11,12,13,14}-*"
-      # Numpy and SciPy do not supply wheels for i686 or win32 for
-      # Python 3.10+, so we skip those:
+      # Build wheels for supported CPython versions.
+      CIBW_BUILD: "cp3{11,12,13,14}-*"
+
+      # NumPy and SciPy do not supply wheels for these targets.
       CIBW_SKIP: "*-musllinux* *-manylinux_i686 *-win32"
-      # Force recent version of manylinux
-      # manylinux2014 no longer supported by scipy and numpy
+
+      # manylinux2014 no longer supported by scipy/numpy
       CIBW_MANYLINUX_X86_64_IMAGE: manylinux_2_28
 
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v6
+
       - name: Set up Python
-        uses: actions/setup-python@v5
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v6
         with:
-          python-version: "3.10"
+          python-version: "3.11"
+
       - name: Install cibuildwheel
-        run: >-
-          python3 -m
-          pip install
-          cibuildwheel
-          --user
-      - name: Build a binary wheel and a source tarball
-        run: python3 -m cibuildwheel --output-dir dist
-      - name: Store the distribution packages
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+        run: |
+          python -m pip install --upgrade pip
+          python -m pip install "cibuildwheel>=2.20,<3"
+
+      - name: Build binary wheels and source tarball
+        run: |
+          python -m cibuildwheel --output-dir dist
+
+      - name: Store distribution packages
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v5
         with:
           name: python-package-distributions-${{ matrix.os }}
           path: dist/
 
   publish-to-pypi:
     name: Publish Python 🐍 distribution 📦 to PyPI
+
     if: ${{ github.event.inputs.confirm_ref != '' && github.event.inputs.confirm_ref != 'test' }}
+
     needs:
       - build
+
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+
     environment:
       name: pypi
       url: https://pypi.org/p/qutip-qoc
+
     permissions:
       id-token: write
 
     steps:
-      - name: Download all the dists
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
+      - name: Download all distributions
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@v5
         with:
           pattern: python-package-distributions-*
           path: dist/
           merge-multiple: true
+
       - name: Publish distribution 📦 to PyPI
         uses: pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish@release/v1

.github/workflows/build_documentation.yml

@@ -8,12 +8,12 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
 
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v6
 
-      - uses: actions/setup-python@v4
+      - uses: actions/setup-python@v6
         name: Install Python
         with:
-          python-version: "3.10"
+          python-version: "3.11"
 
       - name: Install Pandoc
         run: |
@@ -22,11 +22,12 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Install documentation dependencies
         run: |
-          python -mpip install -r doc/requirements.txt
+          python -m pip install --upgrade pip
+          python -m pip install -r doc/requirements.txt
 
       - name: Install qutip-qoc from GitHub
         run: |
-          python -mpip install -e .[full]
+          python -m pip install -e .[full]
           # Install in editable mode so it doesn't matter if we import from
           # inside the installation directory, otherwise we can get some errors
           # because we're importing from the wrong location.
@@ -42,7 +43,7 @@ jobs:
           #   -T : display a full traceback if a Python exception occurs
 
       - name: Upload built files
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v5
         with:
           name: qutip_qoc_html_docs
           path: doc/_build/html/*

.github/workflows/test.yml

@@ -6,60 +6,55 @@ jobs:
   cases:
     name: ${{ matrix.os }}, python${{ matrix.python-version }}, ${{ matrix.case-name }}
     runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
+
     strategy:
       matrix:
         include:
-          - case-name: ubuntu-python3.10
-            os: ubuntu-latest
-            qutip-version: "@master"
-            python-version: "3.10"
-          - case-name: macOs-python3.10
-            os: macOS-latest
-            qutip-version: "@master"
-            python-version: "3.10"
-          - case-name: windows-python3.10
-            os: windows-latest
-            qutip-version: "@master"
-            python-version: "3.10"
           - case-name: ubuntu-python3.11
             os: ubuntu-latest
             qutip-version: "@master"
             python-version: "3.11"
+
           - case-name: macOs-python3.11
             os: macOS-latest
             qutip-version: "@master"
             python-version: "3.11"
+
           - case-name: windows-python3.11
             os: windows-latest
             qutip-version: "@master"
             python-version: "3.11"
+
           - case-name: ubuntu-python3.12
             os: ubuntu-latest
             qutip-version: "@master"
             python-version: "3.12"
+
           - case-name: macOs-python3.12
             os: macOS-latest
             qutip-version: "@master"
             python-version: "3.12"
+
           - case-name: windows-python3.12
             os: windows-latest
             qutip-version: "@master"
             python-version: "3.12"
 
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v6
+
       - name: Set up Python
-        uses: actions/setup-python@v4
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v6
         with:
           python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
 
       - name: Install QuTiP from GitHub
-        if: ${{ matrix.qutip-version == '@master'}}
+        if: ${{ matrix.qutip-version == '@master' }}
         run: |
           python -m pip install 'git+https://github.com/qutip/qutip.git${{ matrix.qutip-version }}'
 
       - name: Install qutip-qtrl from GitHub
-        if: ${{ matrix.qutip-version == '@master'}}
+        if: ${{ matrix.qutip-version == '@master' }}
         run: |
           python -m pip install 'git+https://github.com/qutip/qutip-qtrl.git'
 
@@ -68,18 +63,17 @@ jobs:
           python -m pip install 'jax==0.4.28' 'jaxlib==0.4.28'
 
       - name: Install qutip-jax from GitHub
-        if: ${{ matrix.qutip-version == '@master'}}
+        if: ${{ matrix.qutip-version == '@master' }}
         run: |
           python -m pip install 'git+https://github.com/qutip/qutip-jax.git'
 
       - name: Install qutip-qoc
-        # Installing in-place so that coveralls can locate the source code.
         run: |
-          pip install -e .[full]
+          python -m pip install -e .[full]
 
       - name: Test with pytest and generate coverage report
         run: |
-          pip install pytest-cov coveralls
+          python -m pip install pytest-cov coveralls
           pytest tests --strict-markers --cov=qutip_qoc --cov-report= --color=yes
 
       - name: Upload to Coveralls
@@ -92,16 +86,19 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
 
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v6
+
       - name: Set up Python
-        uses: actions/setup-python@v4
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v6
         with:
-          python-version: "3.10"
+          python-version: "3.11"
+
       - name: Install dependencies
         run: |
           python -m pip install --upgrade pip
-          python -mpip install -r doc/requirements.txt
-          pip install .
+          python -m pip install -r doc/requirements.txt
+          python -m pip install .
+
       - name: Test code snippets in the documentation
         run: |
           cd doc
@@ -111,11 +108,14 @@ jobs:
     name: Finalise coverage reporting
     needs: [cases]
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+
     container: python:3-slim
+
     steps:
       - name: Finalise coverage reporting
         env:
           GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.github_token }}
+
         run: |
           python -m pip install coveralls
           coveralls --service=github --finish