Final pass for 12.9.0 doc updates (#611)

Author: leofang

cuda_bindings/docs/source/release/12.9.0-notes.rst

@@ -15,13 +15,13 @@ Highlights
 * Statically link CUDA Runtime instead of reimplementing it
 * Move stream callback wrappers to the Python layer
 * Return code construction is made faster
-* Failed API calls return None for non error code tuple elements
 
 
 Bug fixes
 ---------
 
 * Fix segfault when converting char* NULL to bytes
+* Failed API calls return None for non error code tuple elements
 * Compute-sanitizer may report ``CUDA_ERROR_INVALID_CONTEXT`` when calling certain CUDA
   runtime APIs such as ``cudaGetDevice()``
 

cuda_bindings/docs/versions.json

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 {
     "latest"  : "latest",
+    "12.9.0"  : "12.9.0",
     "12.8.0"  : "12.8.0",
     "12.6.2"  : "12.6.2",
     "12.6.1"  : "12.6.1"

cuda_core/docs/source/install.md

@@ -7,13 +7,14 @@ dependencies are as follows:
 
 |                   | CUDA 11      | CUDA 12     |
 |------------------ | ------------ | ----------- |
-| CUDA Toolkit [^1] | 11.2 - 11.8  | 12.0 - 12.6 |
+| CUDA Toolkit [^1] | 11.2 - 11.8  | 12.x        |
 | Driver            | 450.80.02+ (Linux), 452.39+ (Windows) | 525.60.13+ (Linux), 527.41+ (Windows) |
 
 [^1]: Including `cuda-python`.
 
 `cuda.core` supports Python 3.9 - 3.13, on Linux (x86-64, arm64) and Windows (x86-64).
 
+
 ## Installing from PyPI
 
 `cuda.core` works with `cuda.bindings` (part of `cuda-python`) 11 or 12. For example with CUDA 12:
@@ -22,8 +23,9 @@ $ pip install cuda-core[cu12]
 ```
 and likewise use `[cu11]` for CUDA 11.
 
-Note that using `cuda.core` with NVRTC or nvJitLink installed from PyPI via `pip install` requires
-`cuda.bindings` 12.8.0+ or 11.8.6+.
+Note that using `cuda.core` with NVRTC installed from PyPI via `pip install` requires
+`cuda.bindings` 12.8.0+ or 11.8.6+. Likewise, with nvJitLink it requires 12.8.0+.
+
 
 ## Installing from Conda (conda-forge)
 
@@ -33,12 +35,8 @@ $ conda install -c conda-forge cuda-core cuda-version=12
 ```
 and likewise use `cuda-version=11` for CUDA 11.
 
-Note that to use `cuda.core` with nvJitLink installed from conda-forge currently requires it to
-be separately installed:
-```console
-$ conda install -c conda-forge libnvjitlink
-```
-(can be combined with the command above). This extra step will be removed in a future release.
+Note that to use `cuda.core` with nvJitLink installed from conda-forge requires `cuda.bindings` 12.8.0+.
+
 
 ## Installing from Source
 
@@ -47,4 +45,4 @@ $ git clone https://github.com/NVIDIA/cuda-python
 $ cd cuda-python/cuda_core
 $ pip install .
 ```
-For now `cuda-python` (`cuda-bindings` later) 11.x or 12.x is a required dependency.
+`cuda-bindings` 11.x or 12.x is a required dependency.

cuda_python/docs/source/release.md

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 maxdepth: 3
 ---
 
+    12.9.0 <release/12.9.0-notes>
     12.8.0 <release/12.8.0-notes>
     12.6.2 <release/12.6.2-notes>
     12.6.1 <release/12.6.1-notes>

cuda_python/docs/source/release/12.9.0-notes.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: LicenseRef-NVIDIA-SOFTWARE-LICENSE
+
+# CUDA Python 12.9.0 Release notes
+==================================
+
+Released on May 5, 2025.
+
+
+Included components
+-------------------
+
+* `cuda.bindings 12.9.0 <https://nvidia.github.io/cuda-python/cuda-bindings/12.9.0/release/12.9.0-notes.html>`_
+
+
+Highlights
+----------
+
+* Add bindings for libNVVM

cuda_python/docs/versions.json

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 {
     "latest"  : "latest",
+    "12.9.0"  : "12.9.0",
     "12.8.0"  : "12.8.0",
     "12.6.2"  : "12.6.2",
     "12.6.1"  : "12.6.1"