Release 2023.7.1

[jrbourbeau]

Release version	2023.7.1
Planned release date	2023-07-20
Status	On-track
Release manager	@jrbourbeau

Best effort

Try to close before the release but will not block the release

• Convert to pyarrow strings if proper dependencies are installed dask#10400
• Fix for TypeError: '<' not supported in graph dashboard distributed#8017
• Automatically restart P2P shuffles when output worker leaves distributed#7970
• Send shards grouped by input chunk in P2P rechunking distributed#8010

Blocker

Issues that would cause us to block and postpone the release if not fixed

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Comments

cc @fjetter @phofl @quasiben @jakirkham @rjzamora

Note that I'm OOO this Friday, so am proposing we release a day earlier on Thursday. My guess is this isn't a big deal, but wanted to highlight as it's outside of our norm.

[hendrikmakait]

Best effort:

• Automatically restart P2P shuffles when output worker leaves distributed#7970
• Send shards grouped by input chunk in P2P rechunking distributed#8010

[jrbourbeau]

Would also be good to get dask/distributed#8017 in as a best effort

[jrbourbeau]

Will start pushing out the release in the next few minutes...

[jrbourbeau]

2023.7.1 is out on PyPI and conda-forge PRs are up:

• Release 2023.7.1 conda-forge/dask-core-feedstock#174
• Release 2023.7.1 conda-forge/distributed-feedstock#256
• Release 2023.7.1 conda-forge/dask-feedstock#229

[jrbourbeau]

conda-forge packages and docker images are out. Thanks all!