Numba 0.61.2 Checklist

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Numba 0.61.2

• Cherry-pick items from the 0.61.2 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. (Updated dates in version support table and release notes #10032)
• Update CHANGE_LOG on cherry-pick PR. (update release notes 0.61.1 #10028)
• Check if any dependency pinnings need an update (e.g. NumPy).
• Approve cherry-pick PR.
• Merge cherry-pick PR to 0.61 release branch.
  • https://github.com/numba/numba/pull/XXXX (No cherry picks for 0.61.1)
• 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 0.61.2 on release branch (no v prefix).
  git tag -am "Version 0.61.2" 0.61.2
• Build and upload conda packages on buildfarm (check upload).
• Build wheels and sdist on the buildfarm (check "upload").
• 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).
• Post link to [email protected].

Post release

• Cherry-pick change-log and version support table modifications to main.
• Snapshot Build Farm config.
• 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).