v23.10.00

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Monkeypatch protocol.loads ala dask/distributed#8216 (#1247) @wence-
• Explicit-comms: preserve partition IDs (#1240) @madsbk
• Increase test timeouts further to reduce CI failures (#1234) @pentschev
• Use conda mambabuild not mamba mambabuild (#1231) @bdice
• Increate timeouts of tests that frequently timeout in CI (#1228) @pentschev
• Adapt to non-string task keys in distributed (#1225) @wence-
• Update test_worker_timeout (#1223) @pentschev
• Avoid importing loads_function from distributed (#1220) @rjzamora

🚀 New Features

• Enable maximum pool size for RMM async allocator (#1221) @pentschev

🛠️ Improvements

• Pin dask and distributed for 23.10 release (#1251) @galipremsagar
• Update test_spill.py to avoid FutureWarnings (#1243) @pentschev
• Remove obsolete pytest filterwarnings (#1241) @pentschev
• Update image names (#1233) @AyodeAwe
• Use copy-pr-bot (#1227) @ajschmidt8
• Unpin dask and distributed for 23.10 development (#1222) @galipremsagar