Prepare release machinery for v2 pre-releases (#2831) #2609

Job	Run time
checks / pre-commit	33s
checks / readme-snippets	15s
checks / test (3.11, lowest-direct, ubuntu-latest)	56s
checks / test (3.14, locked, ubuntu-latest)	1m 53s
checks / test (3.10, lowest-direct, ubuntu-latest)	56s
checks / test (3.10, lowest-direct, windows-latest)	1m 27s
checks / test (3.14, lowest-direct, windows-latest)	1m 18s
checks / test (3.12, lowest-direct, ubuntu-latest)	55s
checks / test (3.10, locked, windows-latest)	1m 22s
checks / test (3.11, locked, ubuntu-latest)	49s
checks / test (3.11, locked, windows-latest)	1m 26s
checks / test (3.13, locked, ubuntu-latest)	44s
checks / test (3.10, locked, ubuntu-latest)	50s
checks / test (3.12, locked, ubuntu-latest)	51s
checks / test (3.12, locked, windows-latest)	1m 17s
checks / test (3.13, lowest-direct, ubuntu-latest)	57s
checks / test (3.12, lowest-direct, windows-latest)	1m 18s
checks / test (3.14, lowest-direct, ubuntu-latest)	47s
checks / test (3.14, locked, windows-latest)	2m 46s
checks / test (3.13, locked, windows-latest)	1m 23s
checks / test (3.11, lowest-direct, windows-latest)	1m 19s
checks / test (3.13, lowest-direct, windows-latest)	1m 42s
all-green	4s
	25m 48s

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