update release notes

docs/source/release-notes.rst

@@ -7,14 +7,15 @@ Release Notes
 v0.3.1
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-This release updates the package requirements to:
+This release updates the minimal Python version to 3.6 (as `Python 3.5 is already an "end-of-life" release as of September 2020 <https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3510/>`_), and also updates the package requirements to:
   - :py:mod:`numpy`: 0.19
   - :py:mod:`matplotlib`: 3.3
   - :py:mod:`scipy`: 1.5
   - :py:mod:`pandas`: 1.1
   - :py:mod:`seaborn`: 0.11
   - :py:mod:`lqrt`: 0.3
 
+All users are strongly encouraged to update.
 
 v0.3.0
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