Applied updates and code clean up

Author: joachimmetz

.github/workflows/build_wheel.yml

@@ -4,14 +4,10 @@ on: [push, pull_request]
 permissions: read-all
 jobs:
   build_wheel:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     strategy:
       matrix:
         include:
-        - python-version: '3.7'
-          toxenv: 'py37'
-        - python-version: '3.8'
-          toxenv: 'py38'
         - python-version: '3.9'
           toxenv: 'py39'
         - python-version: '3.10'
@@ -20,14 +16,18 @@ jobs:
           toxenv: 'py311'
         - python-version: '3.12'
           toxenv: 'py312'
+        - python-version: '3.13'
+          toxenv: 'py313'
+        - python-version: '3.14'
+          toxenv: 'py314'
     steps:
     - uses: actions/checkout@v4
     - name: Install build dependencies
       run: |
         sudo add-apt-repository universe &&
         sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:deadsnakes/ppa &&
         sudo apt-get update &&
-        sudo apt-get install -y autoconf automake autopoint build-essential git libtool pkg-config python${{ matrix.python-version }} python${{ matrix.python-version }}-dev python${{ matrix.python-version }}-venv python3-distutils python3-pip python3-setuptools
+        sudo apt-get install -y autoconf automake autopoint build-essential git libtool pkg-config python${{ matrix.python-version }} python${{ matrix.python-version }}-dev python${{ matrix.python-version }}-venv python3-pip python3-setuptools
     - name: Install tox
       run: |
         python3 -m pip install tox

configure.ac

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ AC_PREREQ([2.71])
 
 AC_INIT(
  [libfsntfs],
- [20240707],
+ [20251018],
  [[email protected]])
 
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR(