RAPIDS Notices#

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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 61
In Progress

RAPIDS 26.08 will require CuPy 14 and NumPy 2

Platform Support Change

v26.08+

June 30, 2026

RSN 60
In Progress

Sunsetting cuxfilter after RAPIDS Release v26.06

Platform Support Change

v26.06+

May 22, 2026

RSN 59
In Progress

RAPIDS 26.08 release, cuDF will transition to Pandas 3.0+

Platform Support Change

v26.08+

May 19, 2026

RSN 58
Completed

Dropping Support for Python v3.10 and Adding Support for Python v3.14 in v26.04

Platform Support Change

v26.04+

April 1, 2026

RSN 57
Completed

Docker image deprecation: rapidsai/miniforge-cuda

Library Deprecation

v26.02

January 20, 2026

RSN 56
Completed

Moving cumlprims_mg into cuML in RAPIDS Release v26.02

Library Deprecation

v26.02

January 5, 2026

RSN 47
Completed

Changes to RAPIDS branching strategy in 25.12

Development Process Change

v25.12+

December 12, 2025

RSN 53
Completed

RAPIDS 25.10 consolidates Docker images to single tag per CUDA major version

Platform Support Change

v25.10

December 12, 2025

RSN 54
Completed

Increasing CUDA minimum requirement from 12.0 to 12.2 in v25.12

Platform Support Change

v25.12

December 12, 2025

RSN 55
Completed

Dropping of Publishing cuGraph-Service Packages in RAPIDS Release v25.12

Platform Support Change

v25.12+

November 25, 2025

RSN 50
Completed

Dropping of UCX-Py project in RAPIDS Release v25.10

Platform Support Change

v25.10+

September 18, 2025

RSN 52
Completed

Dropping of pynvjitlink in RAPIDS Release v25.10

Library Deprecation

v25.10

August 18, 2025

RSN 48
Completed

Deprecation announcement for CUDA 11 in v25.08

Platform Support Change

v25.08

August 12, 2025

RSN 44
Completed

Moving older RAPIDS conda packages to a legacy label

Platform Support Change

<=v23.02

July 17, 2025

RSN 45
Completed

Dropping of Publishing cuSpatial Packages in RAPIDS Release v25.06

Platform Support Change

v25.06+

July 17, 2025

RSN 51
Completed

RAPIDS 25.08 replaces CUDA 12.8 with CUDA 12.9 in our Docker Images

Platform Support Change

v25.08

July 2, 2025

RSN 49
Completed

Important Installation Notice : RAPIDS Wheels are missing from pypi.nvidia.com

Platform Support Change

All RAPIDS Versions

July 1, 2025

RSN 46
Completed

Dropping of Publishing cuGraph-DGL Packages in RAPIDS Release v25.08

Platform Support Change

v25.08+

June 4, 2025

RSN 43
Completed

Deprecation of cuml-cpu in favor of cuml.accel

Library Deprecation

v25.04

March 31, 2025

RSN 42
Completed

RAPIDS 25.02 replaces CUDA 12.5 with CUDA 12.8 in our Docker Images

Platform Support Change

v25.02

February 3, 2025

RSN 41
Completed

Removing cugraph-ops from RAPIDS

Platform Support Change

v25.02+

January 10, 2025

RSN 36
Completed

Support for Pandas 2 in Release v24.04

Platform Support Change

v24.02+

October 17, 2024

RSN 37
Completed

Deprecation of CentOS 7 in v24.04

Platform Support Change

v24.04

October 17, 2024

RSN 38
Completed

Moving libcumlprims, libcugraphops, pylibcugraphops to the rapidsai channel

Platform Support Change

v24.06

October 17, 2024

RSN 39
Completed

Deprecation Announcement Dropping CUDA 12.2 support in our Docker Images in Release v24.08

Platform Support Change

v24.08

October 17, 2024

RSN 40
Completed

Dropping Support for Python v3.9 and adding Python 3.12 Support in v24.10

Platform Support Change

v24.10+

October 17, 2024