Ewout ter Hoeven

If you want to go the backport route, I started a draft PR with backports here: - #8467

@bashtage What do you have in mind for the statsmodels 0.14 release? Is there some timeline or are there some features you want to get in? Can we release it...

> How about 0.14rc1 in around two weeks? If that’s a workable timeframe, sounds good! Keep us in the loop.

Don't know if it matters, but they fixed the [Visual Studio builds](https://bugs.chromium.org/p/webp2/issues/detail?id=7&q=&can=1) recently. Building on Windows with CMake is now pretty straight-forward, see this [AppVeyor config](https://ci.appveyor.com/project/EwoutH/libwebp2) for example.

[libavif](https://github.com/joedrago/avif) tagged a new release, [0.1.3](https://github.com/joedrago/avif/releases/tag/v0.1.3). See [Colorist](https://github.com/joedrago/colorist) for an example [implementation](https://github.com/joedrago/colorist/blob/master/lib/src/format_avif.c).

This issue is now almost 4 years old, Python 2.7, 3.4 and 3.5 have been [end-of-life](https://endoflife.date/python) for a long time: - Python 2.7: Security support ended 2 years and 10...

> Both 2.7 and 3.6 still seem rather relevant – dropping everything Of course the 0.29.x release series can keep support. I think the intersection of users still using Python...

I think however that removing Python 3.5 support without removing Python 2.7 doesn't have that much benefits. What's the roadmap/timeline towards the 3.0 release?

The [large_image_wheels](https://github.com/girder/large_image_wheels) project now has Python 3.11 wheels for manylinux [available](https://girder.github.io/large_image_wheels/), including the latest GDAL (3.5.2). I would love to see #1145 reviewed, and try how far I can get...

@sgillies Thanks for merging #1145! The next step is #1147, in which a Python 3.11 job is added to the Linux CI. And it passed! I also have a questions...