Preparing v1.3.0-incubating release

[mengw15]

Task Summary

Per the release branch naming and cadence policy vote, release/v1.3 has been cut from main, and v1.3.0-incubating will be the next release.

This issue tracks the TODOs for the v1.3.0-incubating release.

References: #5365 (v1.2.0-incubating), vote thread: https://lists.apache.org/thread/6jnwlf7d46qdv5wlrvfxmr91zlmx99sv

Task Type

• Refactor / Cleanup
• DevOps / Deployment / CI
• Testing / QA
• Documentation
• Performance
• Other

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