chore: declare support for Python 3.12 and switch to testing NumPy < 2 (

#1236)

.github/workflows/build-test.yml

@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ jobs:
         run: |
           python -m pytest -vv tests --reruns 10 --reruns-delay 30 --only-rerun "(?i)http|ssl|timeout|expired|connection|socket"
 
-  numpy2-build:
+  numpy1-build:
     strategy:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ jobs:
           python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
 
       - name: Pip install the package
-        run: python -m pip install 'numpy>=2.0.0b1' .[test]
+        run: python -m pip install 'numpy<2' .[test]
 
       - name: Run pytest
         run: |

README.md

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
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-[![Python 3.7‒3.11](https://img.shields.io/badge/python-3.7%E2%80%923.11-blue)](https://www.python.org)
+[![Python 3.7‒3.12](https://img.shields.io/badge/python-3.7%E2%80%923.12-blue)](https://www.python.org)
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