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 Maintenance
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+* Drop Python 3.8 and NumPy 1.20
+  By :user:`Josh Moore <joshmoore>`; :issue:`1557`.
+
 * Cache result of ``FSStore._fsspec_installed()``.
   By :user:`Janick Martinez Esturo <ph03>` :issue:`1581`.