Squashed commit of the following:

commit d98ef95b5e9a47af25b0564a60ab6461d549f8eb
Author: Georges Toth <[email protected]>
Date:   Wed Oct 2 23:50:56 2024 +0200

    remove deprecated note; fix rtd config

commit 17d65599708ebc4098c328d26613e8e483f82a87
Author: Georges Toth <[email protected]>
Date:   Wed Oct 2 23:46:15 2024 +0200

    add type casts

commit 70aef6fa0cf079e6855374843a5e942186846ba0
Author: Georges Toth <[email protected]>
Date:   Wed Oct 2 23:29:44 2024 +0200

    upgrade typings to new format

commit 7d2e9d880a808680b235721914cddccb04657c9c
Author: Georges Toth <[email protected]>
Date:   Wed Oct 2 23:29:08 2024 +0200

    remove pyre2; upgrade typings to new format

.github/workflows/pytest.yml

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        python-version: ["3.8", "3.9", "3.10", "3.11"]
+        python-version: ["3.9", "3.10", "3.11", "3.12"]
 
 
     steps:

.readthedocs.yaml

@@ -5,12 +5,17 @@
 # Required
 version: 2
 
+# Set the version of Python and other tools you might need
+build:
+  os: ubuntu-22.04
+  tools:
+    python: "3.11"
+
 mkdocs:
   configuration: mkdocs.yml
 
 # Optionally set the version of Python and requirements required to build your docs
 python:
-  version: "3"
   install:
     - method: pip
       path: .

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -4,9 +4,14 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
 
 ## [unreleased]
+### Breaking
+- Set minimum supported Python version to 3.9
+- Remove pyre2 as it hasn't been updated in a long time and regex seems to be the better lib here
+- Remove long deprecated methods "decode_email", "decode_email_b"
+
 ### Changes
 - Add ruff config
-- Set minimum supported Python version to 3.8
+- Add PY3.12 to tests
 
 ## [v1.17.5]
 ### Changes

README.md

@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 [![Code Health](https://codebeat.co/badges/d631cfb2-a7f8-476a-9d2e-58e58db95bc8)](https://codebeat.co/projects/github-com-govcert-lu-eml_parser-master)
-[![Travis CI](https://travis-ci.com/GOVCERT-LU/eml_parser.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.com/GOVCERT-LU/eml_parser)
 [![Documentation Status](https://readthedocs.org/projects/eml-parser/badge/)](http://eml-parser.readthedocs.io)
 [![PyPI](https://badge.fury.io/py/eml-parser.svg)](https://badge.fury.io/py/eml-parser)
 [![PyPI pyversions](https://img.shields.io/pypi/pyversions/eml-parser.svg)](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/eml-parser/)
@@ -34,15 +33,6 @@ pip install eml_parser
 #### **OSX** users
 Make sure to install libmagic, else eml_parser will not work.
 
-#### Python <=3.7.4 "rare header field parsing issue"
-It has been reported (in #60) that there are parsing issues in some particular cases which seem
-to be caused by a bug in the *email* module of the Python standard library. At least versions <=3.7.4 are affected.
-
-Python versions >=3.7.11 are not affected. If you do get *KeyError* exceptions on header field parsing, you should
-consider upgrading to a more recent version of Python.
-
--> Please open an issue if the error persists after upgrading.
-
 
 ### Example usage:
 ```python

docs/index.md

@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 # eml_parser
 
 [![Code Health](https://codebeat.co/badges/d631cfb2-a7f8-476a-9d2e-58e58db95bc8)](https://codebeat.co/projects/github-com-govcert-lu-eml_parser-master)
-[![Travis CI](https://travis-ci.com/GOVCERT-LU/eml_parser.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.com/GOVCERT-LU/eml_parser)
 [![Documentation Status](https://readthedocs.org/projects/eml-parser/badge/)](http://eml-parser.readthedocs.io)
 [![PyPI](https://badge.fury.io/py/eml-parser.svg)](https://badge.fury.io/py/eml-parser)
 [![PyPI pyversions](https://img.shields.io/pypi/pyversions/eml-parser.svg)](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/eml-parser/)
@@ -43,15 +42,6 @@ pip install eml_parser[filemagic]
 #### **OSX** users
 Make sure to install libmagic, else eml_parser will not work.
 
-#### Python <=3.7.4 "rare header field parsing issue"
-It has been reported (in #60) that there are parsing issues in some particular cases which seem
-to be caused by a bug in the *email* module of the Python standard library. At least versions <=3.7.4 are affected.
-
-Python versions >=3.7.11 are not affected. If you do get *KeyError* exceptions on header field parsing, you should
-consider upgrading to a more recent version of Python.
-
--> Please open an issue if the error persists after upgrading.
-
 ### Example usage
 ```python
 import datetime

eml_parser/decode.py

@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ def decode_string(string: bytes, encoding: typing.Optional[str] = None) -> str:
     return value
 
 
-def workaround_bug_27257(msg: email.message.Message, header: str) -> typing.List[str]:
+def workaround_bug_27257(msg: email.message.Message, header: str) -> list[str]:
     """Function to work around bug 27257 and just tries its best using the compat32 policy to extract any meaningful information, i.e. e-mail addresses.
 
     Args:
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ def workaround_bug_27257(msg: email.message.Message, header: str) -> typing.List
     Returns:
         list: Returns a list of strings which represent e-mail addresses.
     """
-    return_value: typing.List[str] = []
+    return_value: list[str] = []
 
     for value in workaround_field_value_parsing_errors(msg, header):
         if value != '':
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ def workaround_bug_27257(msg: email.message.Message, header: str) -> typing.List
     return return_value
 
 
-def workaround_field_value_parsing_errors(msg: email.message.Message, header: str) -> typing.List[str]:
+def workaround_field_value_parsing_errors(msg: email.message.Message, header: str) -> list[str]:
     """Function to work around field value parsing errors by trying a best effort parsing using the compat32 policy to extract any meaningful information.
 
     Args: