[Snyk] Security upgrade nltk from 3.6.3 to 3.9.3

[sestinj]

Snyk has created this PR to fix 1 vulnerabilities in the pip dependencies of this project.

Snyk changed the following file(s):

• manual-testing-sandbox/requirements.txt

⚠️ Warning

typer 0.3.2 has requirement click<7.2.0,>=7.1.1, but you have click 8.1.8.
thinc 8.0.17 requires murmurhash, which is not installed.
thinc 8.0.17 requires preshed, which is not installed.
thinc 8.0.17 requires cymem, which is not installed.
spacy 3.1.2 requires preshed, which is not installed.
spacy 3.1.2 requires murmurhash, which is not installed.
spacy 3.1.2 requires cymem, which is not installed.
qtconsole 5.4.4 requires pyzmq, which is not installed.
notebook 6.5.7 requires pyzmq, which is not installed.
jupyter-server 1.24.0 requires pyzmq, which is not installed.
jupyter-console 6.6.3 requires pyzmq, which is not installed.
jupyter-client 7.4.9 requires pyzmq, which is not installed.
ipykernel 6.16.2 requires pyzmq, which is not installed.
exceptiongroup 1.3.1 has requirement typing-extensions>=4.6.0; python_version < "3.13", but you have typing-extensions 3.10.0.2.

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[sestinj]

This upgrade for NLTK from version 3.6.3 to 3.9.3 introduces several changes, including dropped support for older Python versions and a behavioral change in WordNet.

Key Changes:

• Python Version Support: Support for Python 3.6 was dropped in NLTK 3.7, and support for Python 3.8 was dropped in 3.9.2. The target version 3.9.3 requires Python 3.10 or newer.
• WordNet Sorting: As of version 3.9, WordNet synsets and relations are no longer sorted by default. Code that relies on a specific sorted order from WordNet functions may need to be updated to explicitly sort the results.
• Security Fix / Model Packaging: To address CVE-2024-39705, version 3.9 replaced pickled models (like punkt and various taggers) with a new pickle-free format. This is noted as a breaking change in the official changelog and may require users to update their downloaded NLTK data packages.

Recommendation:
Verify that your environment is running Python 3.10 or a newer version. Review any code that uses WordNet to ensure that the change in default sorting does not affect its behavior. It is also advisable to redownload NLTK data packages to ensure you have the new, safer model formats.

Source: NLTK Release Notes, NLTK GitHub Changelog

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