MONAI releasing v1.5 -- checklist

tentative: 18th Apr

Review the deprecated APIs

[x] Tag and release PYPI version [X.Y.Z]rc[K] following the contributing guide, need trigger release pipeline on blossom.
[ ] Make sure all CI pipelines pass.

[ ] Check the PyPI page
[ ] Test pip install monai==[X.Y.Z]rc[K] and run a few MONAI modules locally
[ ] Test all installation commands mentioned in the installation guide and the primary README.

The new PyPI release candidate should be checked against all the relevant repositories under Project-MONAI, for example, the tutorials repo:

[x] Run all Jupyter notebooks, replace pip install monai with pip install monai==[X.Y.Z]rc[K].
[x] File new tickets and create new pull requests to address any technical issues.
[x] Release a new candidate after addressing all the issues.
[x] Testing related repositories
- [x] MONAI unit and integration tests
- [x] MONAI tutorial tests
- [x] MONAILabel unit and integration tests
- [x] MONAI model zoo tests
- [x] QA regression tests

[x] Draft a release note on GitHub.
[x] Draft a release note with a pull request to modify the CHANGELOG.
[x] Create a pull request to highlight the features of the upcoming release, for example, in docs/source/highlights.md.
[x] Create a pull request to update the primary README.md.
[x] Update the monai.io website (https://github.com/Project-MONAI/project-monai.github.io).
[x] Check all the URLs in https://monai.io
[x] Check all the URLs in https://docs.monai.io.

[ ] Tag and release PyPI version [X.Y.Z] following the contributing guide.
[x] Check the dockerhub auto-build by running docker pull projectmonai/monai:X.Y.Z and docker run ...
[x] Check jupyter lab/notebook in the docker container
[x] Check readme frontpage on dockerhub, pypi
[x] Update https://github.com/Project-MONAI/MONAI/blob/dev/CITATION.cff
[ ] Publish the release note on GitHub.
[x] Update the weekly-preview tagging https://github.com/Project-MONAI/MONAI/blob/master/.github/workflows/weekly-preview.yml#L32 and https://github.com/Project-MONAI/MONAI/blob/master/.github/workflows/weekly-preview.yml#L69
[ ] Release the corresponding conda-forge version https://github.com/conda-forge/monai-feedstock