Release 2024.12.1

[jrbourbeau]

Release version	2024.12.1
Planned release date	2024-12-17
Status	On-track
Release manager	@jrbourbeau

Best effort

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

• Client.compute doesn't materialize delayed chunk of persisted array if provided as a dict value distributed#8959
• Avoid constructing NestedContainers in case of trivial inputs dask#11600
• Xarray to_dask_dataframe consume more memory on V2024.12.0 compared to V2024.10.0 dask#11592
• Add data-producer-task property to replace rootish detection mechanism dask#11558 / Use IO task marker in scheduling distributed#8950
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Blocker

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

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Comments

Note, this is proposing we release early next week to give a bit more time for some of things in "Best effort" but also not clash with folks heading out for the upcoming holidays.

cc @fjetter @hendrikmakait @phobson @jacobtomlinson @rjzamora

[phofl]

This one would be good to get in:

dask/dask#11605

[phofl]

dask/dask#11609

[jrbourbeau]

Closing as 2024.12.1 is out