Numba 0.56.4 Checklist

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numba 0.56.4

• Cherry-pick items from the 0.56.4 milestone into a PR.
  • Make ol_compatible_view accessible on all targets #8537
• Update the "version support table" in the documentation with the final
  release date (FINAL ONLY).
  • Make, approve and merge a PR against the main branch.
    • Update version support table for 0.56.4. #8552
  • Create a cherry-pick from the merge and include in the cherry-pick-PR
    for the release0.56 branch.
• Check if any dependency pinnings need an update (e.g. NumPy)
• Approve change log modifications and cherry-pick.
  • Update CHANGE_LOG for 0.56.4 #8553
  • Additional update to CHANGE_LOG for 0.56.4 #8571
• Merge change log modifications and cherry-picks to 0.56 release branch.
  • Cherry picks 0.56.4 #8562
  • Additional cherry-picks for 0.56.4 #8573
• Review, merge and check execution of release notebook. (FINAL ONLY)
• FIXUP (see comments)
• 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 build has passed
• Annotated tag 0.56.4 on release branch (no v prefix). https://github.com/numba/numba/releases/tag/0.56.4
• 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. https://anaconda.org/numba/numba/files?sort=basename&sort_order=desc&version=0.56.4
• Upload wheels and sdist to PyPI (upload from ci_artifacts).
• Verify wheels for all platforms arrived on PyPi. https://pypi.org/project/numba/0.56.4/
• Verify ReadTheDocs build. https://numba.readthedocs.io/en/0.56.4/
• Post link to Twitter. https://twitter.com/numba_jit/status/1588512356815949824
• Post announcement to discourse group and ping the release testers group
  using @RC_Testers (RC ONLY). https://numba.discourse.group/t/ann-numba-0-56-4/1632
• Post link to python-announce-list@python.org.

Post release

• 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. adding note about doing a wheel test build prior to tagging #8580
• Ping Anaconda Distro team to trigger a build for defaults (FINAL ONLY).
• Create a release on Github at https://github.com/numba/numba/releases (FINAL ONLY). https://github.com/numba/numba/releases/tag/0.56.4
• Close milestone (and then close this release issue).

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During the buildout on the Anaconda build farm, some build issues arose and an additional patch was needed: #8570

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Note to self: add bullet to run the wheel build before tagging too.

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It's a wrap 🌯