2021.04.0 release

[jrbourbeau]

There have been several serialization bug reports from the 2021.03.1 release (see dask/distributed#4645, dask/distributed#4625, dask/dask#7490) which we're currently resolving (xref dask/distributed#4653). I'd like to do a dask and distributed 2021.04.0 release this Friday to get those fixes out to users.

cc @jakirkham @kkraus14 @jsignell

[galipremsagar]

A recent change(dask/dask#7473) to concat dispatch was made which is the addition of ignore_order parameter in the middle of the function signature, this would lead to breakages in downstream projects. We'd like to submit a fix to extract ignore_order from **kwargs instead of adding it to the function signature.

[galipremsagar]

A recent change(dask/dask#7473) to concat dispatch was made which is the addition of ignore_order parameter in the middle of the function signature, this would lead to breakages in downstream projects. We'd like to submit a fix to extract ignore_order from **kwargs instead of adding it to the function signature.

The PR is up and it would be nice if we can get this into 2021.04.0 release: dask/dask#7500

[jakirkham]

So we've fixed the serialization issues linked above. However there's another issue with data being truncated. This is tracked as issue ( dask/distributed#4662 )

[jcrist]

We just found a bug affecting Prefect that is fixed by dask/dask#7501, would be nice if possible to also get this in for this release.

[jakirkham]

We just found a bug affecting Prefect that is fixed by dask/dask#7501, would be nice if possible to also get this in for this release.

Based on discussion in that PR. Seems there is nothing to do in Dask or Distributed ( dask/dask#7501 (comment) ). Feel free to correct me if that's not the case @jcrist

[jcrist]

Oop, yes, while that fix did fix things for us, the actual underlying problem was in prefect. No blockers from us anymore.

[jrbourbeau]

Alright, at this point it looks like all the linked issues have been resolved (thanks all!). I'm going to start pushing out the release

[jrbourbeau]

Aaaand we're on PyPI. 2021.04.0 should be on conda-forge / Docker hub in a few hours

[jakirkham]

Awesome thanks James! 😄

[jakirkham]

Packages are now up on conda-forge

[jrbourbeau]

And now it's on Docker hub. Thanks all!