Bump python to 3.12 and upgrade docker base image to ubuntu 24.04

.github/workflows/auto_tests.yml

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ on: push
 
 jobs:
   server_tests:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
 
     services:
       postgres:
@@ -30,8 +30,8 @@ jobs:
         run: |
           cd server
           sudo apt-get -y install libsqlite3-mod-spatialite
-          pip3 install pipenv==2024.0.1
-          pipenv install --dev --verbose
+          pip install pipenv==2026.0.3
+          pipenv install --dev --verbose --python 3.12
 
       - name: Run tests
         run: |

server/Dockerfile

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-FROM ubuntu:jammy-20240627.1
+FROM ubuntu:noble-20251013
 MAINTAINER Martin Varga "martin.varga@lutraconsulting.co.uk"
 
 # this is to do choice of timezone upfront, because when "tzdata" package gets installed,
@@ -19,10 +19,6 @@ RUN apt-get update -y && \
     gcc build-essential binutils cmake extra-cmake-modules libsqlite3-mod-spatialite libmagic1 && \
     rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
 
-
-# needed for geodiff
-RUN pip3 install --upgrade pip==24.0
-
 # create mergin user to run container with
 RUN groupadd -r mergin -g 901
 RUN groupadd -r mergin-family -g 999
@@ -32,12 +28,16 @@ RUN useradd -u 901 -r --home-dir /app --create-home -g mergin -G mergin-family -
 COPY . /app
 WORKDIR /app
 
-RUN pip3 install pipenv==2024.0.1
+# keep installing to system packages
+ENV PIP_BREAK_SYSTEM_PACKAGES=1
+ENV PIP_IGNORE_INSTALLED=1
+
+RUN pip install pipenv==2026.0.3
 # for locale check this http://click.pocoo.org/5/python3/
 ENV LC_ALL=C.UTF-8
 ENV LANG=C.UTF-8
 
-RUN pipenv install --system --deploy --verbose
+RUN pipenv install --system --deploy --verbose --python 3.12
 
 USER mergin
 

server/Pipfile

@@ -57,4 +57,4 @@ pre-commit = "==4.1.0"
 atomicwrites = "==1.4.0"
 
 [requires]
-python_version = "3.10"
+python_version = "3.12"