From 0260dbcebfde6d4f9687d926135f1590000e6538 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Martin Bubel <martin.bubel@itwm.fraunhofer.de>
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2023 22:03:03 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] limit minimum python version #1038

---
 CHANGELOG.md | 2 ++
 setup.py     | 1 +
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index bebfe2eb..0728e22b 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 
 ## Unreleased
 
+* limit supported python versions to `">=3.9"` in accordance with numpy
+
 * Change from `nosetest` to `pytest`
 
 ## v1.9.8 (2019-05-17)
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 135764d5..8415d2aa 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -158,6 +158,7 @@ setup(
     description=("The Gaussian Process Toolbox"),
     long_description=desc,
     license="BSD 3-clause",
+    python_requires=">=3.9",
     keywords="machine-learning gaussian-processes kernels",
     url="https://sheffieldml.github.io/GPy/",
     download_url="https://github.com/SheffieldML/GPy/archive/refs/heads/devel.zip",