On 5 August 2025 you audit automation scripts on several Linux hosts that rely on a pinned major.minor Python interpreter version in their shebang (for example #!/usr/bin/python3.8). The security team requires every script to run on a branch that still receives upstream maintenance (bug-fix or at least security-fix releases). Which of the following interpreter branches violates that requirement because it has already reached end-of-life upstream?
Python 3.8 entered its end-of-life phase on 7 October 2024; 3.8.20 was the final security release, and no further fixes will be published. By contrast, Python 3.10 remains in the security-fix stage until October 2026, Python 3.11 until October 2027, and Python 3.13 is the current feature branch receiving regular bug-fix updates. Therefore a shebang pinned to Python 3.8 no longer meets the security team's maintenance requirement, while the other listed branches do.
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