Release 2024.8.1

[jrbourbeau]

Release version	2024.8.1
Planned release date	2024-08-16
Status	On-track
Release manager	@jrbourbeau

Best effort

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

• Ensure pickle does not change tokens dask#11320
• Upgrade gpuCI and fix Dask Array failures with "cupy" backend dask#11309
• Rename chunksize-tolerance option dask#11317
• Add changelog entry for reshape and ordering improvements dask#11324

Blocker

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

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Comments

cc @fjetter @hendrikmakait @phofl @rjzamora @quasiben

[rjzamora]

cupy support is pretty broken in dask.array without dask/dask#11309 (or something similar).

[hendrikmakait]

Best effort: dask/distributed#8833

[phofl]

dask/dask#11324

[jrbourbeau]

Closing as 2024.8.1 is out on PyPI, conda-forge, and docker registries