v24.08.00

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixes for encoders/transformers for cudf.pandas (#5990) @dantegd
• BUG: remove sample parameter from pca call to mean (#5980) @mfoerste4
• Fix segfault and other errors in ForestInference.load_from_sklearn (#5973) @hcho3
• Rename .devcontainers for CUDA 12.5 (#5967) @jakirkham
• [MNT] Small NumPy 2 related fixes (#5954) @seberg
• CI Fix: use ld_preload to avoid libgomp issue on ARM jobs (#5949) @dantegd
• Fix for benchmark runner to handle parameter sweeps of multiple data types (#5938) @dantegd
• Avoid extra memory copy when using cp.concatenate in cuml.dask kmeans (#5937) @dantegd
• Assign correct labels_ in cuml.dask.kmeans (#5931) @dantegd
• Fix nightly jobs by updating hypothesis strategies to account for sklearn change (#5925) @dantegd
• Fix for SVC fit_proba not using class weights (#5912) @pablotanner
• Fix cudf.pandas failure on test_convert_input_dtype (#5885) @dantegd
• Fix cudf.pandas failure on test_convert_matrix_order_cuml_array (#5882) @dantegd
• Simplify cuml array (#5166) @wence-

🚀 New Features

• [FEA] Enable UMAP to build knn graph using NN Descent (#5910) @jinsolp
• Allow estimators to accept any dtype (#5888) @dantegd

🛠️ Improvements

• Add support for XGBoost UBJSON in FIL (#6009) @hcho3
• split up CUDA-suffixed dependencies in dependencies.yaml (#5974) @jameslamb
• Use workflow branch 24.08 again (#5970) @KyleFromNVIDIA
• Bump Treelite to 4.3.0 (#5968) @hcho3
• reduce memory_footprint for sparse PCA transform (#5964) @Intron7
• Build and test with CUDA 12.5.1 (#5963) @KyleFromNVIDIA
• Support int64 index type in MG sparse LogisticRegression (#5962) @lijinf2
• Add CUDA_STATIC_MATH_LIBRARIES (#5959) @KyleFromNVIDIA
• skip CMake 3.30.0 (#5956) @jameslamb
• Make ci/run_cuml_dask_pytests.sh environment-agnostic again (#5950) @trxcllnt
• Use verify-alpha-spec hook (#5948) @KyleFromNVIDIA
• nest cuml one level deeper in python (#5944) @msarahan
• resolve dependency-file-generator warning, other rapids-build-backend followup (#5928) @jameslamb
• Adopt CI/packaging codeowners (#5923) @bdice
• Remove text builds of documentation (#5921) @vyasr
• Fix conflict of forward-merge #5905 of branch-24.06 into branch-24.08 (#5911) @dantegd
• Bump Treelite to 4.2.1 (#5908) @hcho3
• remove unnecessary 'setuptools' dependency (#5901) @jameslamb
• [FEA] PCA Initialization for TSNE (#5897) @aamijar
• Use rapids-build-backend (#5804) @KyleFromNVIDIA