Drop support for and remove references to EOL Python 3.6 (#11683)

* remove reference in comments to python3.6

* upgrade tox python env in script

* bump python version in example for completeness

* upgrade python version requirement in setup doc

* upgrade necessary python version in __init__.py

* upgrade python version in setup.py

* newsfragment

* drops refs to bionic and replace with focal

* bump refs to postgres 9.6 to 10

* fix hanging ci

* try installing tzdata first

* revert change made in b979f336

* ignore new random mypy error while debugging other error

* fix lint error for temporary workaround

* revert change to install list

* try passing env var

* export debian frontend var?

* move line and add comment

* bump pillow dependency

* bump lxml depenency

* install libjpeg-dev for pillow

* bump automat version to one compatible with py3.8

* add libwebp for pillow

* bump twisted trunk python version

* change suffix of newsfragment

* remove redundant python 3.7 checks

* lint

4 files changed, 9 insertions, 14 deletions

diff --git a/synapse/__init__.py b/synapse/__init__.py
index 3d0d165f48..4ef8728018 100644
--- a/synapse/__init__.py
+++ b/synapse/__init__.py
@@ -21,8 +21,8 @@ import os
 import sys
 
 # Check that we're not running on an unsupported Python version.
-if sys.version_info < (3, 6):
-    print("Synapse requires Python 3.6 or above.")
+if sys.version_info < (3, 7):
+    print("Synapse requires Python 3.7 or above.")
     sys.exit(1)
 
 # Twisted and canonicaljson will fail to import when this file is executed to
diff --git a/synapse/app/_base.py b/synapse/app/_base.py
index 579adbbca0..e5ee03b79f 100644
--- a/synapse/app/_base.py
+++ b/synapse/app/_base.py
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ import atexit
 import gc
 import logging
 import os
-import platform
 import signal
 import socket
 import sys
@@ -468,16 +467,12 @@ async def start(hs: "HomeServer") -> None:
     # everything currently allocated are things that will be used for the
     # rest of time. Doing so means less work each GC (hopefully).
     #
-    # This only works on Python 3.7
-    if platform.python_implementation() == "CPython" and sys.version_info >= (3, 7):
-        gc.collect()
-        gc.freeze()
+    gc.collect()
+    gc.freeze()
 
     # Speed up shutdowns by freezing all allocated objects. This moves everything
     # into the permanent generation and excludes them from the final GC.
-    # Unfortunately only works on Python 3.7
-    if platform.python_implementation() == "CPython" and sys.version_info >= (3, 7):
-        atexit.register(gc.freeze)
+    atexit.register(gc.freeze)
 
 
 def setup_sentry(hs: "HomeServer") -> None:
diff --git a/synapse/python_dependencies.py b/synapse/python_dependencies.py
index d844fbb3b3..22b4606ae0 100644
--- a/synapse/python_dependencies.py
+++ b/synapse/python_dependencies.py
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ REQUIREMENTS = [
     "pyasn1>=0.1.9",
     "pyasn1-modules>=0.0.7",
     "bcrypt>=3.1.0",
-    "pillow>=4.3.0",
+    "pillow>=5.4.0",
     "sortedcontainers>=1.4.4",
     "pymacaroons>=0.13.0",
     "msgpack>=0.5.2",
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ CONDITIONAL_REQUIREMENTS = {
     # `systemd.journal.JournalHandler`, as is documented in
     # `contrib/systemd/log_config.yaml`.
     "systemd": ["systemd-python>=231"],
-    "url_preview": ["lxml>=3.5.0"],
+    "url_preview": ["lxml>=4.2.0"],
     "sentry": ["sentry-sdk>=0.7.2"],
     "opentracing": ["jaeger-client>=4.0.0", "opentracing>=2.2.0"],
     "jwt": ["pyjwt>=1.6.4"],
diff --git a/synapse/storage/engines/postgres.py b/synapse/storage/engines/postgres.py
index 30f948a0f7..b3d71f661c 100644
--- a/synapse/storage/engines/postgres.py
+++ b/synapse/storage/engines/postgres.py
@@ -46,8 +46,8 @@ class PostgresEngine(BaseDatabaseEngine):
         self._version = db_conn.server_version
 
         # Are we on a supported PostgreSQL version?
-        if not allow_outdated_version and self._version < 90600:
-            raise RuntimeError("Synapse requires PostgreSQL 9.6 or above.")
+        if not allow_outdated_version and self._version < 100000:
+            raise RuntimeError("Synapse requires PostgreSQL 10 or above.")
 
         with db_conn.cursor() as txn:
             txn.execute("SHOW SERVER_ENCODING")