Use looseversion instead of deprecated distutils in make_release.py (#1391)

* Address Python 3.12+ unrecognized escape sequences syntax warnings
* Remove Python 3.12 maximum version restriction

Author: eramongodb

etc/make_release.py

@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
 
 import textwrap
 import re
-from distutils.version import LooseVersion
+from looseversion import LooseVersion
 import os
 import glob
 import subprocess
@@ -621,7 +621,7 @@ def read_github_creds(github_token_file):
     Read the GitHub token from the specified file and return it as a string.
     """
 
-    token_re = re.compile('^(?:Token - )?(?P<tok>\w{40}).*$')
+    token_re = re.compile(r'^(?:Token - )?(?P<tok>\w{40}).*$')
     github_token = None
 
     with open(github_token_file, 'rb') as token_stream:

pyproject.toml

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 name = "mongo-cxx-driver"
 version = "0.1.0"
 description = "For development only."
-requires-python = ">=3.10,<3.12"
+requires-python = ">=3.10"
 dependencies = []
 
 [dependency-groups]
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ config_generator = [
 ]
 
 make_release = [
-    # etc/make_release.py (requires python<3.12)
+    # etc/make_release.py
     "click>=6.0",
     "gitpython>=3.1",
     "jira>=3.1",