Release 2023.3.0

[jrbourbeau]

Release version	2023.3.0
Planned release date	2023-03-01
Status	On-track
Release manager	@jrbourbeau

Best effort

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

• Remove pyarrow dependency for rechunking distributed#7604
• Minor follow-up to P2P by default dask#10008

Blocker

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

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Comments

As @fjetter mentioned in #308 (comment), there was a regression in the latest release which caused groupby operations for dask.bag to fail. Florian has already fixed the issue in dask/dask#10005. I'll propose we push out a patch release tomorrow (March 1) if there are no blockers.

cc @fjetter @quasiben @jakirkham @rjzamora

[quasiben]

No blockers from RAPIDS

[jrbourbeau]

FYI, I'll start pushing out the release in a few minutes

[jrbourbeau]

2023.3.0 is on PyPI and conda-forge PRs are open:

• Release 2023.3.0 conda-forge/dask-core-feedstock#162
• Release 2023.3.0 conda-forge/distributed-feedstock#243
• Release 2023.3.0 conda-forge/dask-feedstock#216

[jrbourbeau]

Closing as conda-forge packages and docker images are published