Tracking: need for a new release

[Gorialis]

There are a lot of fixes to existing issues that aren't on PyPI because there hasn't been a release in a long time.

I am thinking I want to clean up and finish all the actionable issues, do a test of all functionality on latest versions, maybe write new tests if anything is broken, and then push out a new release. There are also some outstanding documentation issues that need to be taken care of.

The Python version bump to 3.10 is considerable and is part of the reason releases have been stalled for a while. 3.10+ is available in Ubuntu LTS (jammy), Debian stable (bookworm), Raspbian stable (bookworm), and Anaconda's mainline, which are my usual yardsticks of whether it's acceptable to bump. I don't imagine there won't be a bit of pushback, but I think the version has been out for long enough.

Python 3.12 is only about a month away, so I might hold on until right after its release, but the related cleanup work should be done before then.