From a78296de245d40902ab6df6e1cfc31cdca0cd401 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: zacharyburnett <zburnett@stsci.edu>
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2025 13:21:29 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] test with latest supported Python version

add news fragment
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 .github/workflows/ci.yml            | 13 ++++++-------
 .github/workflows/tests_devdeps.yml | 12 ------------
 changes/9217.general.rst            |  1 +
 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 changes/9217.general.rst

diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 3fadefc6f8..9a64e75e8c 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -69,13 +69,12 @@ jobs:
       cache-key: crds-${{ needs.crds_context.outputs.context }}
       envs: |
         - linux: py311-oldestdeps-xdist-cov
-          pytest-results-summary: true
         - linux: py311-xdist
-          pytest-results-summary: true
-        - macos: py311-xdist
-          pytest-results-summary: true
-        - linux: py311-xdist-cov
+        - linux: py312-xdist
+        # `tox` does not currently respect `requires-python` versions when creating testing environments;
+        # if this breaks, add an upper pin to `requires-python` and revert this py3 to the latest working version
+        - linux: py3-cov-xdist
           coverage: codecov
           pytest-results-summary: true
-        - linux: py312-xdist
-        - linux: py313-xdist
+        - macos: py3-xdist
+          pytest-results-summary: true
diff --git a/.github/workflows/tests_devdeps.yml b/.github/workflows/tests_devdeps.yml
index 151c5e7af2..f090558da2 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/tests_devdeps.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/tests_devdeps.yml
@@ -55,22 +55,10 @@ jobs:
       cache-path: /tmp/data/crds_cache
       cache-key: crds-${{ needs.crds_context.outputs.context }}
       envs: |
-        - linux: py3-xdist
-          pytest-results-summary: true
-        - macos: py3-xdist
-          pytest-results-summary: true
-        - linux: py311-stdevdeps-xdist
-          pytest-results-summary: true
-        - macos: py311-stdevdeps-xdist
-          pytest-results-summary: true
         - linux: py3-stdevdeps-xdist
           pytest-results-summary: true
         - macos: py3-stdevdeps-xdist
           pytest-results-summary: true
-        - linux: py311-devdeps-xdist
-          pytest-results-summary: true
-        - macos: py311-devdeps-xdist
-          pytest-results-summary: true
         - linux: py3-devdeps-xdist
           pytest-results-summary: true
         - macos: py3-devdeps-xdist
diff --git a/changes/9217.general.rst b/changes/9217.general.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..caf168fa9b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changes/9217.general.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+test with latest supported version of Python