Prepare for release 3.11.0

[ddabble]

Description

Probably time for a release :)

Related Issue

Motivation and Context

How Has This Been Tested?

Screenshots (if appropriate):

Types of changes

• Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
• New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
• Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to change)

Checklist:

• I have run the pre-commit run command to format and lint.
• My change requires a change to the documentation.
• I have updated the documentation accordingly.
• I have read the CONTRIBUTING document.
• I have added tests to cover my changes.
• I have added my name and/or github handle to AUTHORS.rst
• I have added my change to CHANGES.rst
• All new and existing tests passed.

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[tim-schilling]

@ddabble that release process failure was due to creating the github release manually. I think it can be ignored since everything has been uploaded properly (except the signed artifacts to the GH release, but that matches prior releases).

[ddabble]

@tim-schilling Ah right, I agree that we can probably ignore it, since the workflow logs say that Release.tag_name already exists 👍

Btw, seems like I've missed some pieces of information about this process; since you're mentioning creating GitHub releases manually, is there a way to create them automatically? 🤔 As far as I had understood, the process to create a new release is:

1. Draft a new release
2. Approve the automated deployment

[tim-schilling]

The release process should be:

1. Prepare version update PR
2. Merge version update
3. Create tag locally
4. Push tag
5. Approve deployment
6. [Automated] System will create the GitHub release for the new tag
7. [Optional] Edit release notes (I like to remove the pre-commit mentions personally)