xref https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/pull/15540 so we are technically still testing 1.3.1 (numpy 1.8.2). But this should be reasonable to officially drop support for these older versions. xref to #15206 (drop numpy < 1.10) though mpl 1.4.3 is build on numpy 1.9