drop python 3.8, require numpy 2 #301

Job	Run time
build (ubuntu-latest, linux, quay.io/pypa/manylinux2014_x86_64, x86_64, 3.9, 2.0.*)	3m 22s
build (ubuntu-latest, linux, quay.io/pypa/manylinux2014_x86_64, x86_64, 3.10, 2.0.*)	3m 13s
build (ubuntu-latest, linux, quay.io/pypa/manylinux2014_x86_64, x86_64, 3.11, 2.0.*)	3m 9s
build (ubuntu-latest, linux, quay.io/pypa/manylinux2014_x86_64, x86_64, 3.12, 2.0.*)	3m 2s
build (ubuntu-latest, linux, quay.io/pypa/manylinux2014_aarch64, aarch64, 3.9, 2.0.*)	29m 9s
build (ubuntu-latest, linux, quay.io/pypa/manylinux2014_aarch64, aarch64, 3.10, 2.0.*)	29m 1s
build (ubuntu-latest, linux, quay.io/pypa/manylinux2014_aarch64, aarch64, 3.11, 2.0.*)	29m 13s
build (ubuntu-latest, linux, quay.io/pypa/manylinux2014_aarch64, aarch64, 3.12, 2.0.*)	29m 3s
build (macos-11, mac, 10.9, x86_64, 3.9, 2.0.*)	6m 9s
build (macos-11, mac, 10.9, x86_64, 3.10, 2.0.*)	6m 10s
build (macos-11, mac, 10.9, x86_64, 3.11, 2.0.*)	6m 15s
build (macos-11, mac, 10.9, x86_64, 3.12, 2.0.*)	6m 12s
build (macos-14, mac, 11.0, arm64, 3.9, 2.0.*)	2m 9s
build (macos-14, mac, 11.0, arm64, 3.10, 2.0.*)	2m 6s
build (macos-14, mac, 11.0, arm64, 3.11, 2.0.*)	2m 8s
build (macos-14, mac, 11.0, arm64, 3.12, 2.0.*)	2m 9s
build (windows-2019, windows, x86_64, 3.8, 2.0.*)	4m 10s
build (windows-2019, windows, x86_64, 3.9, 2.0.*)	6m 19s
build (windows-2019, windows, x86_64, 3.10, 2.0.*)	5m 58s
build (windows-2019, windows, x86_64, 3.11, 2.0.*)	6m 25s
build (windows-2019, windows, x86_64, 3.12, 2.0.*)	5m 33s
docs	0s
test	0s
publish-wheels	0s
publish-docs	0s
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