fix: lower the orjson floor to the first release with cp311 wheels (#328)

Author: lesnik512

.github/workflows/_checks.yml

@@ -147,8 +147,7 @@ jobs:
           - {python-version: "3.15", target: litestar}
         # These `include` entries name an existing `target`, so each adds `extras` to that
         # target's five combinations rather than creating a job of its own. `free` carries
-        # orjson because it belongs to no *-all extra and its floor is a wheel-availability
-        # one, which only an interpreter matrix can check.
+        # orjson because it belongs to no *-all extra.
         include:
           - {target: free, extras: "--extra free-all --extra orjson"}
           - {target: fastapi, extras: "--extra fastapi-all"}

pyproject.toml

@@ -40,11 +40,8 @@ Changelog = "https://github.com/modern-python/lite-bootstrap/releases"
 [project.optional-dependencies]
 orjson = [
     # No API forces this floor: only `orjson.dumps(...).decode()` and `orjson.loads`, both original.
-    # >=3.11.1 is the first release with cp314 wheels, and orjson builds from source only with a
-    # Rust toolchain (a nightly one, on 3.14), so anything older is uninstallable on the newest
-    # supported interpreter. 3.11.0 ships none: a machine with cargo installed can still build it,
-    # which is how #218 came to declare >=3.11.
-    "orjson>=3.11.1",
+    # 3.8.0 is the first release with cp311 wheels for every platform.
+    "orjson>=3.8.0",
 ]
 sentry = [
     # >=1.31 for the `max_value_length` init option; >=2.1 for sentry_sdk.set_tags (plural,