Numba 0.59.0 Final Checklist

[sklam]

numba 0.59.0

• Cherry-pick items from the 0.59 milestone into a cherry-pick PR: Update for 0.59.0 final #9405
• Update the "version support table" in the documentation with the final
  release date (FINAL ONLY) and add to cherry-pick PR (Doc updates for 0.59.0 final. #9411)
• Update CHANGE_LOG on cherry-pick PR (Doc updates for 0.59.0 final. #9411)
• Check if any dependency pinnings need an update (e.g. NumPy)
• Approve cherry-pick PR
• Merge cherry-pick PR to X.Y release branch.
  • Update for 0.59.0 final #9405
• Review, merge and check execution of release notebook. (FINAL ONLY) N/A
• Run the HEAD of the release branch through the build farm and confirm:
  • Build farm CPU testing has passed.
  • Build farm CUDA testing has passed
  • Build farm wheel testing has passed
• Annotated tag 0.59.0 on release branch (no v prefix).
  git tag -am "Version 0.59.0" 0.59.0
• Build and upload conda packages on buildfarm (check upload). numba_yaml_427
• Build wheels and sdist on the buildfarm (check "upload"). numba_wheel_102
• Verify packages uploaded to Anaconda Cloud and move to
  numba/label/main.
• Upload wheels and sdist to PyPI (upload from ci_artifacts).
• Verify wheels for all platforms arrived on PyPi.
• Verify ReadTheDocs build.
• Post link to X and to Mastodon and...
  • https://twitter.com/numba_jit/status/1754407257050173883
  • https://fosstodon.org/@numba/111885605560899047
• Post link to python-announce-list@python.org. https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-announce-list@python.org/message/K5PPJ637JDT44FPJJHQKNJ2JTBL27K2W/

Post release

• Cherry-pick change-log and version support table modifications to main 143e219 (done in Post release for 0.59.0 #9425)
• Snapshot Build Farm config (https://github.com/ContinuumIO/numba-ci/pull/118)
• Clean up ci_artifacts by moving files to subdirectories
• Update release checklist template with any additional bullet points that
  may have arisen during the release.
  • Adding TODO: pre-tag test on conda-forge? (moved to triage discussion)
  • Adding TODO: publish RCs on conda-forge?(moved to triage discussion)
  • Move bullet about "GitHub release to main release actions (from post-release). Update release checklist #9456
• Ping Anaconda Distro team to trigger a build for defaults (FINAL ONLY).
• Create a release on Github at https://github.com/numba/numba/releases (FINAL ONLY).
  • https://github.com/numba/numba/releases/tag/0.59.0
• Close milestone (and then close this release issue).

[esc]

Created the "GitHub-release":

https://github.com/numba/numba/releases/tag/0.59.0

as this was "requested" here:

#9197 (comment)

[esc]

Need to update the checklist such that crafting a "GitHub release" is part of the main release process rather than being a post-release action. This was mentioned a few times now across the past releases and since it's a short 5-min task, I think moving shouldn't cause any issues.