v6.9.2 breaks ipykernel for macOS arm64 due to psutil addition

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
jupyter, jupyter-notebook, python
Domain
backend

Research direction

Start by reviewing the v6.9.1-to-v6.9.2 dependency change linked in the issue and reproduce the Jupyter Lab/ipykernel failure on macOS arm64. Determine whether psutil is required or can support that platform, then verify that ipykernel runs on macOS arm64 without regressing supported environments.

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Description

I recently updated a conda environment and noticed that Jupyter Lab failed due to a missing arm64 build of psutil. After some digging I found out that psutil was added in v6.9.2.

I don't know if psutil is essential or if there's a way to get it working on arm64 but I can confirm that downgrading to v6.9.1 allows running ipykernel (through Jupyter Lab) on macOS while v6.9.2 does not.

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