[2023] Deprecation notice about support for SQLAlchemy 1.3

[amotl]

Dear community,

after SQLAlchemy 2.0 has been released on January 26, 2023 [1,2], SQLAlchemy 1.3 is effectively EOL.

It became clear we will remove support for SQLAlchemy 1.3 on the corresponding CrateDB dialect within the upcoming releases. Please raise your voice if there are any objections to be considered.

We are issuing this notice early, and [3] also added a corresponding DeprecationWarning to the 0.30.0 release, in order to make the intentions clear, and to inform users properly.

With kind regards,
Andreas.

• [1] SQLAlchemy 2 RC is out. Help by testing on your project! sqlalchemy/sqlalchemy#8631 (comment)
• [2] SQLAlchemy 2.0.0 release notes
• [3] QA: Add EOL/deprecation warning about support for SQLAlchemy 1.3 crate-python#503

[amotl]

A corresponding EOL/deprecation warning will be added with crate/crate-python#503.

[amotl]

crate-0.30.0 has been released, and ships with the corresponding deprecation warning, still supporting all of SQLAlchemy 1.3, 1.4 and 2.0. If you are on 1.3, you should consider migrating to a higher version of SQLAlchemy soon. See also:

• What’s New in SQLAlchemy 1.4
• What's New in SQLAlchemy 2.0
• SQLAlchemy 2.0 migration guide