switching to Numpy 2 as the default except for Python 3.8

.github/workflows/main.yaml

@@ -12,10 +12,10 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        python-version: [3.8, 3.9, "3.10", "3.11", "3.12"]
+        python-version: ["3.8", "3.9", "3.10", "3.11", "3.12"]
         architecture: ["x64"]
         include:
-          - python-version: "3.11"
+          - python-version: "3.8"
             numpy-version: "1.26.4"
     steps:
     - uses: actions/checkout@v2

requirements-dev.txt

@@ -1,22 +1,22 @@
 -r requirements.txt
 -r requirements-cli.txt
 bump2version==1.0.1
-jsonpickle==3.0.3
-coverage==7.4.4
+jsonpickle==3.2.1
+coverage==7.5.3
 ipdb==0.13.13
-numpy>=1.24.4,<2.0.0
-pytest==8.1.1
+numpy==2.0.0
+pytest==8.2.2
 pytest-cov==5.0.0
 python-dotenv==1.0.1
-watchdog>=2.2.0
-Sphinx==6.2.1  # We use the html style that is not supported in Sphinx 7 anymore.
-sphinx-sitemap==2.5.1
-sphinxemoji>=0.2.0
-flake8==7.0.0
+watchdog>=4.0.1
+Sphinx==7.3.7  # We use the html style that is not supported in Sphinx 7 anymore.
+sphinx-sitemap==2.6.0
+sphinxemoji>=0.3.1
+flake8==7.1.0
 python-dateutil==2.9.0.post0
-orjson==3.10.0
+orjson==3.10.5
 wheel==0.43.0
 tomli==2.0.1
 tomli-w==1.0.0
-pydantic==2.6.4
+pydantic==2.7.4
 pytest-benchmark==4.0.0