Numba 0.55.2 Checklist

numba 0.55.2

• Backport NumPy 1.22 patch
  • https://github.com/numba/numba/pull/8067
  • Bump the maximum supported NumPy version in setup.py and numba/__init__.py:
  • https://github.com/numba/numba/pull/8075
  • https://github.com/numba/numba/pull/8103
• Backports for M1:
  • https://github.com/numba/numba/pull/8093
  • https://github.com/numba/numba/pull/8098
• Other Backports:
  • https://github.com/numba/numba/pull/8082
  • https://github.com/numba/numba/pull/8078
  • https://github.com/numba/numba/pull/8094
  • https://github.com/numba/numba/pull/8100
  • https://github.com/numba/numba/pull/8114
• Create PR for changelog modifications to target release branch
  • https://github.com/numba/numba/pull/8068
• Create PRs to fix public CI build failures on the release branch
  • https://github.com/numba/numba/pull/8069
  • https://github.com/numba/numba/pull/8084
• Merge change log modifications and backports to 0.55 release branch.
• Annotated tag 0.55.2 on release branch (no v prefix).
  • https://github.com/numba/numba/releases/tag/0.55.2
• Build and upload conda packages on buildfarm (check upload).
• Verify packages uploaded to Anaconda Cloud and move to numba/label/main.
  • https://anaconda.org/numba/numba/files?version=0.55.2
• Build wheels ($PYTHON_VERSIONS) on the buildfarm.
• Upload wheels and sdist to PyPI (upload from ci_artifacts).
• Verify wheels for all platforms arrived on PyPi.
  • https://pypi.org/project/numba/0.55.2/#files
• Verify ReadTheDocs build.
  • https://numba.readthedocs.io/en/0.55.2/
  • https://numba.readthedocs.io/en/0.55.2
• Send RC/FINAL announcement email / post announcement to discourse group.
  • https://numba.discourse.group/t/ann-numba-0-55-2/1353
• Post link to Twitter.
  • https://twitter.com/numba_jit/status/1529743486374887425
• Post link to [e-mail].

Post release

• Clean up ci_artifacts by moving files to subdirectories
• Update release checklist template.
  • https://github.com/numba/numba/pull/8118
• 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/0.55.2
• Close milestone (and then close this release issue).

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