Merge remote-tracking branch 'skeleton/main' into update-ci

Signed-off-by: Ayan Sinha Mahapatra <ayansmahapatra@gmail.com>

Author: AyanSinhaMahapatra

azure-pipelines.yml

@@ -9,14 +9,6 @@ jobs:
   # These jobs are using VMs and Azure-provided Pythons 3.8
   ################################################################################
 
-  - template: etc/ci/azure-posix.yml
-    parameters:
-      job_name: ubuntu20_cpython
-      image_name: ubuntu-20.04
-      python_versions: ["3.9", "3.10", "3.11", "3.12"]
-      test_suites:
-        all: venv/bin/pytest -n 2 -vvs
-
   - template: etc/ci/azure-posix.yml
     parameters:
       job_name: ubuntu22_cpython
@@ -27,8 +19,8 @@ jobs:
 
   - template: etc/ci/azure-posix.yml
     parameters:
-      job_name: macos12_cpython
-      image_name: macOS-12
+      job_name: ubuntu24_cpython
+      image_name: ubuntu-24.04
       python_versions: ["3.9", "3.10", "3.11", "3.12"]
       test_suites:
         all: venv/bin/pytest -n 2 -vvs
@@ -41,6 +33,14 @@ jobs:
       test_suites:
         all: venv/bin/pytest -n 2 -vvs
 
+  - template: etc/ci/azure-posix.yml
+    parameters:
+        job_name: macos14_cpython
+        image_name: macOS-14
+        python_versions: ['3.9', '3.10', '3.11', '3.12']
+        test_suites:
+            all: venv/bin/pytest -n 2 -vvs
+
   - template: etc/ci/azure-win.yml
     parameters:
       job_name: win2019_cpython