RAPIDS Notices

Notices are our means to communicate and document changes in the project to contributors, core developers, users, and the community.

Notice Types

Type Code Intended Audience Purpose
RAPIDS Developer Notice RDN Contributors & Core Developers Communicate updates to development processes
RAPIDS General Notice RGN Everyone Project wide announcements and updates, including breaking changes
RAPIDS Support Notice RSN Everyone Updates on RAPIDS support for specific versions of CUDA, Python, OS, platforms, and compilers

Recent and Important Notices

Notice Title Topic RAPIDS Version Updated
RSN 47

In Progress

Changes to RAPIDS branching strategy in 25.08 Development Process Change v25.08+ 05 May 2025
RSN 46

In Progress

Dropping of Publishing cuGraph-DGL Packages in RAPIDS Release v25.08 Platform Support Change v25.08+ 25 April 2025
RSN 45

In Progress

Dropping of Publishing cuSpatial Packages in RAPIDS Release v25.06 Platform Support Change v25.06+ 09 April 2025
RSN 44

In Progress

Moving older RAPIDS conda packages to a `legacy` label Platform Support Change <=v23.02 09 April 2025
RSN 43

Completed

Deprecation of cuml-cpu in favor of cuml.accel Library Deprecation v25.04 31 March 2025
RSN 42

Completed

RAPIDS 25.02 replaces CUDA 12.5 with CUDA 12.8 in our Docker Images Platform Support Change v25.02 03 February 2025
RSN 41

Completed

Removing cugraph-ops from RAPIDS Platform Support Change v25.02+ 10 January 2025
RSN 40

Completed

Dropping Support for Python v3.9 and adding Python 3.12 Support in v24.10 Platform Support Change v24.10+ 17 October 2024
RSN 39

Completed

Deprecation Announcement Dropping CUDA 12.2 support in our Docker Images in Release v24.08 Platform Support Change v24.08 17 October 2024
RSN 38

Completed

Moving libcumlprims, libcugraphops, pylibcugraphops to the rapidsai channel Platform Support Change v24.06 17 October 2024
RSN 37

Completed

Deprecation of `CentOS 7` in v24.04 Platform Support Change v24.04 17 October 2024
RSN 36

Completed

Support for Pandas 2 in Release v24.04 Platform Support Change v24.02+ 17 October 2024

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