From ca39e67f3d881f2895c87781431ed50808bf4ef9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dan Callahan <danc@element.io>
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2020 16:33:06 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Use Python 3.8 in Docker images by default (#8698)

This bumps us closer to current Python without going all the way to 3.9.

Fixes #8674

Signed-off-by: Dan Callahan <danc@element.io>
---
 changelog.d/8698.misc | 1 +
 docker/Dockerfile     | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 changelog.d/8698.misc

diff --git a/changelog.d/8698.misc b/changelog.d/8698.misc
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6b777fb29
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog.d/8698.misc
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Use Python 3.8 in Docker images by default.
diff --git a/docker/Dockerfile b/docker/Dockerfile
index 27512f860..9791d3ddf 100644
--- a/docker/Dockerfile
+++ b/docker/Dockerfile
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 #    docker build -f docker/Dockerfile --build-arg PYTHON_VERSION=3.6 .
 #
 
-ARG PYTHON_VERSION=3.7
+ARG PYTHON_VERSION=3.8
 
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