[antonwolfy]

The PR drops support for Python 3.10 and makes Python 3.11 the minimum required version.

Python 3.10 reached end of life in October 2026, NumPy no longer supports it since 2.3, and dpnp CI stopped testing it in #3046.

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What changed in this PR

This PR makes Python 3.11 the minimum supported version for dpnp, aligning package metadata, CMake requirements, and documentation following the earlier CI changes.

Changes:

• Removes Python 3.10 support from package metadata and build requirements.
• Removes tomli dependencies no longer needed with Python 3.11+.
• Updates installation guidance, release notes, and an FFT test comment.

File	Description
pyproject.toml	Raises the Python minimum, updates classifiers and formatter targets, and removes tomli from coverage dependencies.
dpnp/​tests/​test_fft.py	Removes Python 3.10 from a comment; test behavior is unchanged.
doc/​quick_start_guide.rst	Lists Python 3.11–3.15 as supported interpreters.
conda-recipe/​rattler_recipe.yaml	Removes the conditional tomli build dependency.
conda-recipe/​meta.yaml	Removes the Python <3.11 tomli dependency.
conda-recipe-cf/​meta.yaml	Removes the Python <3.11 tomli dependency.
CMakeLists.txt	Raises the build-time Python minimum to 3.11.
cmake/​dpnp-config.cmake	Requires Python 3.11 for downstream CMake consumers.
CHANGELOG.md	Announces the removal of Python 3.10 support.

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[github-actions]

Array API standard conformance tests for dpnp=0.22.0dev1=np2py314h8d9cdd5_5 ran successfully.
Passed: 1491
Failed: 0
Skipped: 6

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[coveralls]

coverage: 84.397%. remained the same — drop-python-3-10 into master