I'd like to propose we push a 2021.01.1 release of dask and distributed this Friday. dask/distributed#4432 includes a fix for a regression introduced in distributed==2020.12.0 which we've received several user issues about and has prevented some groups from being able to upgrade their distributed version.

Offline @rjzamora also mentioned that dask/dask#7066 was close to done and would be good to include in the next Dask release. @jsignell are there any other PRs that come to mind which are close to being merged and should put on the maintenance team's radar?

cc @jakirkham @kkraus14