RSN 35 - Deprecation Announcement Dropping CUDA 11.2 support in our Docker Images in Release v23.12

Author	RAPIDS Ops
Status	Completed
Topic	Platform Support Change
RAPIDS Version	v23.12
Created	October 5, 2023
Updated	February 13, 2024

Overview

RAPIDS is planning to deprecate support for its CUDA 11.2 Docker containers in Release v23.12, and to cease publishing CUDA 11.2 Docker containers in the v24.02 release. v23.12 will be the last version of RAPIDS to distribute CUDA 11.2 Docker containers.

Impact

Effective RAPIDS v24.02 release, RAPIDS will cease distribution of CUDA 11.2 Docker containers. RAPIDS will continue to distribute CUDA 12.0 and 11.8 containers. Users who still wish to use CUDA 11.2 (or other versions in the CUDA 11.x or 12.x series) may continue to use RAPIDS via conda installation.