Merge pull request #1601 from ccnmtl/nikolas-patch-1

Update build-and-test.yml

.github/workflows/build-and-test.yml

@@ -2,10 +2,10 @@ name: build-and-test
 on: [push]
 jobs:
   build:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
     strategy:
       matrix:
-          python-version: [3.8, "3.12"]
+          python-version: ["3.12"]
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
       - name: Build with Makefile