Best effort

Try to close before the release but will not block the release

• Use IO task marker in scheduling distributed#8950
• Reintroduce slice fusion dask#11638
• Fix merge asof simplify after lowering dask#11658
• Rename remote store to FsspecStore dask#11660
• Avoid Dict in fused tasks dask#11657

Blocker

Issues that would cause us to block and postpone the release if not fixed

• Add redirects for groupby docs after dask-expr merge dask#11661
• Add changelog for dataframe removal dask#11654
• ...

Comments

This will be the first release that drops support for the legacy DataFrame and removes the need for the dask-expr dependency