fix: match code and minimal versions

[coryan]

Generally I bumped the minimal version to whatever is current. In a couple of
places I just changed the code because it looked bad too. I also created a new
build to test these minimal versions.

[codecov]

Codecov Report

✅ All modified and coverable lines are covered by tests.
✅ Project coverage is 96.57%. Comparing base (9987f27) to head (fa72016).
⚠️ Report is 2 commits behind head on main.

Additional details and impacted files

@@            Coverage Diff             @@
##             main    #3008      +/-   ##
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- Coverage   96.59%   96.57%   -0.03%     
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  Files         106      106              
  Lines        4376     4376              
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- Hits         4227     4226       -1     
- Misses        149      150       +1     

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[coryan]

PTAL, I had to rebase the PR.