Numba 0.59.1 Checklist #9485

numba 0.59.1

• Cherry-pick items from the 0.59.1 milestone into a cherry-pick PR.
• Update the "version support table" in the documentation with the final
  release date (FINAL ONLY) and add to cherry-pick PR
• Update CHANGE_LOG on cherry-pick PR
• Check if any dependency pinnings need an update (e.g. NumPy) NO NEED
• Cherrypick Fix non-deterministic bug caused by unstableness in SSA  #9491 and update changelog
• Approve cherry-pick PR
• Merge cherry-pick PR to 0.59.1 release branch.
  • Patches for 0.59.1 #9480
• [ ] Review, merge and check execution of release notebook. (FINAL ONLY)
• Run the HEAD of the release branch through the build farm and confirm:
  • Build farm CPU testing has passed. numba_yaml_441
  • Build farm CUDA testing has passed. numba_yaml_441
  • Build farm wheel testing has passed numba_wheel_104
• Annotated tag 0.59.1 on release branch (no v prefix).
  git tag -am "Version 0.59.1" 0.59.1
• Build and upload conda packages on buildfarm (check upload). numba_yaml_442
• Build wheels and sdist on the buildfarm (check "upload"). numba_wheel_105
• 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.
• Create a release on Github at https://github.com/numba/numba/releases (FINAL ONLY).
• Post link to X and to Mastodon and...
• Post announcement to discourse group and ping the release testers group
  using @RC_Testers (RC ONLY). https://numba.discourse.group/t/ann-numba-0-59-1/2473
• Post link to python-announce-list@python.org.

Post release

• Cherry-pick change-log and version support table modifications to main (Post release task for 0.59.1 #9502)
• Cherry-pick other changes: See TODO in Patches for 0.59.1 #9480 (comment) (Post release task for 0.59.1 #9502)
• Snapshot Build Farm config (no changes)
• 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.
• Ping Anaconda Distro team to trigger a build for defaults (FINAL ONLY).
• Close milestone (and then close this release issue).