Merge branch 'bprescott-python38-20200127' into 'master'

docs: Python upgrade to 3.8 in license mgmt

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!23781

doc/user/application_security/license_compliance/index.md

@@ -179,9 +179,10 @@ If you still need to run tests during `mvn install`, add `-DskipTests=false` to
 ### Selecting the version of Python
 
 > - [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/security-products/license-management/merge_requests/36) in [GitLab Ultimate](https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/) 12.0.
-> - In GitLab 12.2, Python 3.5 became the default.
+> - In [GitLab 12.2](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/issues/12032), Python 3.5 became the default.
+> - In [GitLab 12.7](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/security-products/license-management/merge_requests/101), Python 3.8 became the default.
 
-License Compliance uses Python 3.5 and pip 19.1 by default.
+License Compliance uses Python 3.8 and pip 19.1 by default.
 If your project requires Python 2, you can switch to Python 2.7 and pip 10.0
 by setting the `LM_PYTHON_VERSION` environment variable to `2`.