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* Dropped support for Python 3.8.
* Updates related to Python 3.12.
- Had to update venusian (from 1.2.0) to 3.1.0.
- Had to update pyramid (from 1.10.4) to 1.10.8 (for imp import not found).
- Had to add pmdarima (no module pyramid.compat).
- Had to define/update numpy (to 1.26.4) for this as it was implicitly,
due to something else, using 1.24.4 which failed to build with Python 3.12.
- And had to update lower bound of Python (from 3.8.1) to 3.9 for this.
- Had to update dcicutils (from 8.11.0) to 8.13.0 (for pyramid update for imp import not found).
* Minor change to dev_servers.py to facilitate running a local ElasticSearch proxy
to observe traffic (resquests/responses) between the portal and ElasticSearch
with a tool like mitmproxy or mitmweb; see comments in dev_server.py.