Py3.14 Wheels

[MSeal]

Adds python 3.14 wheel support. Drops 3.7 support. Note that earlier changes prevents mac < os15 from installing which is independent of this change.

Checklist

• Contains customer facing changes? Including API/behavior changes
• Did you add sufficient unit test and/or integration test coverage for this PR?
  • If not, please explain why it is not required

References

JIRA:

Test & Review

Open questions / Follow-ups

[confluent-cla-assistant]

🎉 All Contributor License Agreements have been signed. Ready to merge.
_{Please push an empty commit if you would like to re-run the checks to verify CLA status for all contributors.}

[Copilot]

Pull Request Overview

This PR updates the build infrastructure to support Python 3.14 wheels while dropping Python 3.7 support. The changes upgrade the cibuildwheel tool from version 0.12.0/2.21.3 to 3.2.1 across all build scripts and CI configuration files.

• Upgrades cibuildwheel to version 3.2.1 across all build scripts and CI pipelines
• Updates CI job names and configurations to reflect Python 3.8-3.14 support range (removing 3.7)
• Modifies artifact naming conventions to accommodate the new Python version range

Reviewed Changes

Copilot reviewed 7 out of 7 changed files in this pull request and generated 3 comments.

Show a summary per file

File	Description
tools/windows-build.bat	Updates cibuildwheel version and adds error handling to pip install
tools/wheels/install-macos-python-required-by-cibuildwheel.py	Updates comment to reflect new cibuildwheel version
tools/wheels/build-wheels.sh	Updates default cibuildwheel version parameter
tools/requirements-manylinux.txt	Pins cibuildwheel to specific version
tools/mingw-w64/semaphore_commands.sh	Updates cibuildwheel version for MinGW builds
tools/cibuildwheel-build.sh	Changes to use requirements file instead of hardcoded version
.semaphore/semaphore.yml	Updates job names, Python versions, and artifact paths; comments out tag-based run conditions

---

_{Tip: Customize your code reviews with copilot-instructions.md. Create the file or learn how to get started.}

[sonarqube-confluent]

Analysis Details

0 Issues

• 0 Bugs
• 0 Vulnerabilities
• 0 Code Smells

Coverage and Duplications

• No coverage information (66.60% Estimated after merge)
• No duplication information (4.90% Estimated after merge)

Project ID: confluent-kafka-python

View in SonarQube

[fangnx]

LGTM