Lightning 1.6 Release

[awaelchli]

List of tasks to complete the 1.6.0 Release

Release date: TBA
Feature freeze date: TBA

Up to Feature Freeze

List of 1.6 milestones

• Stable Accelerator API TODOs for achieving stability for Trainer Strategy API #9932
• Unify Checkpointing conventions [RFC] Standardize all stateful components on state_dict/load_state_dict #11429

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Before or after Feature Freeze

• Documentation updates
  • Update all pages to the latest accelerator/strategy/devices syntax
  • Documentation check (typos, new features, etc. (e.g. PyTorch documentation updates #11739))
• Create the release blog post
• Changelog check
• Create release notes

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Feel free to edit this page!

cc @justusschock @awaelchli @rohitgr7 @Borda

[carmocca]

Closing this in favor of issue planning.

Ping me if you have any questions or you want to add an item!