Drop testing support for older JDKS to limit possible issues

Author: cnuernber

.github/workflows/test.yml

@@ -16,14 +16,14 @@ jobs:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
         os: [macos-latest, ubuntu-latest, windows-latest]
-        jdk: [8, 17, 19, 21, 25]
+        jdk: [19, 21, 25]
         python-version: ["3.9", "3.11","3.12","3.13","3.14"]
 
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v3
 
       - name: Set up JDK ${{ matrix.jdk }}
-        uses: actions/setup-java@v1
+        uses: actions/setup-java@v4
         with:
           java-version: ${{ matrix.jdk }}