Drop Go 1.13-17 support (#1420)

Start v1.8 development

Author: methane

.github/workflows/test.yml

@@ -27,11 +27,6 @@ jobs:
               # Older production releases
               '1.19',
               '1.18',
-              '1.17',
-              '1.16',
-              '1.15',
-              '1.14',
-              '1.13',
           ]
           mysql = [
               '8.0',
@@ -47,7 +42,7 @@ jobs:
           includes = []
           # Go versions compatibility check
           for v in go[1:]:
-                  includes.append({'os': 'ubuntu-latest', 'go': v, 'mysql': mysql[0]})
+              includes.append({'os': 'ubuntu-latest', 'go': v, 'mysql': mysql[0]})
 
           matrix = {
               # OS vs MySQL versions
@@ -69,10 +64,10 @@ jobs:
       matrix: ${{ fromJSON(needs.list.outputs.matrix) }}
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v3
-      - uses: actions/setup-go@v3
+      - uses: actions/setup-go@v4
         with:
           go-version: ${{ matrix.go }}
-      - uses: shogo82148/actions-setup-mysql@v1.15.0
+      - uses: shogo82148/actions-setup-mysql@v1.16.0
         with:
           mysql-version: ${{ matrix.mysql }}
           user: ${{ env.MYSQL_TEST_USER }}

README.md

@@ -40,8 +40,8 @@ A MySQL-Driver for Go's [database/sql](https://golang.org/pkg/database/sql/) pac
   * Optional placeholder interpolation
 
 ## Requirements
-  * Go 1.13 or higher. We aim to support the 3 latest versions of Go.
-  * MySQL (4.1+), MariaDB, Percona Server, Google CloudSQL or Sphinx (2.2.3+)
+  * Go 1.18 or higher. We aim to support the 3 latest versions of Go.
+  * MySQL (5.6+), MariaDB, Percona Server, Google CloudSQL or Sphinx (2.2.3+)
 
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go.mod

@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 module github.com/go-sql-driver/mysql
 
-go 1.13
+go 1.18