Swap httpx out for niquests

Author: sco1

.pre-commit-config.yaml

@@ -3,11 +3,11 @@ ci:
 
 repos:
   - repo: https://github.com/psf/black-pre-commit-mirror
-    rev: 25.12.0
+    rev: 26.3.1
     hooks:
       - id: black
   - repo: https://github.com/pycqa/isort
-    rev: 7.0.0
+    rev: 8.0.1
     hooks:
       - id: isort
         name: isort
@@ -36,6 +36,6 @@ repos:
       -  id: python-check-blanket-type-ignore
       -  id: python-use-type-annotations
   - repo: https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff-pre-commit
-    rev: v0.14.10
+    rev: v0.15.7
     hooks:
       - id: ruff-check

pre_commit_python_eol/bump_cache.py

@@ -5,15 +5,15 @@
 from pre_commit_python_eol import __url__, __version__
 
 try:
-    import httpx
+    import niquests
 except ImportError:
     raise RuntimeError(
-        "httpx was not installed, please install the 'gha' dependency group"
+        "niquests was not installed, please install the 'gha' dependency group"
     ) from None
 
 USER_AGENT = (
     f"pre-commit-check-eol/{__version__} ({__url__}) "
-    f"httpx/{httpx.__version__} "
+    f"niquests/{niquests.__version__} "
     f"{platform.python_implementation()}/{platform.python_version()}"
 )
 
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 
 def bump_cache() -> None:
     """Update the cached release cycle JSON from the source repository."""
-    with httpx.Client(headers={"User-Agent": USER_AGENT}) as client:
+    with niquests.Session(headers={"User-Agent": USER_AGENT}) as client:
         r = client.get(CACHE_SOURCE)
         r.raise_for_status()
 

pyproject.toml

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ classifiers = [
 
 requires-python = ">=3.11"
 dependencies = [
-    "packaging~=25.0",
+    "packaging~=26.0",
 ]
 
 [project.urls]
@@ -38,11 +38,11 @@ checkeol = "pre_commit_python_eol.check_eol:main"
 
 [dependency-groups]
 dev = [
-    "black~=25.0",
+    "black~=26.3",
     "flake8~=7.1",
     "flake8-annotations~=3.1",
     "flake8-define-class-attributes~=0.2",
-    "isort~=7.0",
+    "isort~=8.0",
     "mypy~=1.14",
     "pre-commit~=4.0",
     "pytest~=9.0",
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ dev = [
 
 [project.optional-dependencies]
 gha = [
-    "httpx~=0.28",
+    "niquests~=3.18",
 ]
 
 [tool.black]