v1.6.8-alpha - 25-JUL-2023

This is NOT the 26 JUL 2023 release, this pre-release is only going to staging.

What's Changed

Exciting New Features 🎉

• #1226 Celery Retry Exponential Backoff by @k-macmillan in #1367

Sending this to Staging to let it sit there until the v1.6.9 release on 8 AUG 2023, will monitor metrics and logs to see if the retries are behaving as expected.

Full Changelog: v1.6.8...v1.6.8-1226-celery-retries