v24.10.00

🚨 Breaking Changes

• [Feat] add repeat, sparsity, eval_n_elements APIs to bitset (#2439) @rhdong

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Disable NN Descent Batch tests temporarily (#2453) @divyegala
• Fix sed syntax in update-version.sh (#2441) @raydouglass
• Use runtime check of cudart version for eig (#2430) @lowener
• [BUG] Fix bitset function visibility (#2429) @lowener
• Exclude any kernel symbol that uses cutlass (#2425) @robertmaynard

🚀 New Features

• [Feat] add repeat, sparsity, eval_n_elements APIs to bitset (#2439) @rhdong
• [Opt] Enforce the UT Coverity and add benchmark for transpose (#2438) @rhdong
• [FEA] Support for half-float mixed precise in brute-force (#2382) @rhdong

🛠️ Improvements

• bump NCCL floor to 2.19 (#2458) @jameslamb
• Deprecating vector search APIs and updating README accordingly (#2448) @cjnolet
• Update update-version.sh to use packaging lib (#2447) @AyodeAwe
• Switch traceback to native (#2446) @galipremsagar
• bump NCCL floor to 2.18.1.1 (#2443) @jameslamb
• Add missing cuda_suffixed: true (#2440) @trxcllnt
• Use CI workflow branch 'branch-24.10' again (#2437) @jameslamb
• Update to flake8 7.1.1. (#2435) @bdice
• Update fmt (to 11.0.2) and spdlog (to 1.14.1). (#2433) @jameslamb
• Allow coo_sort to work on int64_t indices (#2432) @benfred
• Adding NCCL clique to the RAFT handle (#2431) @viclafargue
• Add support for Python 3.12 (#2428) @jameslamb
• Update rapidsai/pre-commit-hooks (#2420) @KyleFromNVIDIA
• Drop Python 3.9 support (#2417) @jameslamb
• Use CUDA math wheels (#2415) @KyleFromNVIDIA
• Remove NumPy <2 pin (#2414) @seberg
• Update pre-commit hooks (#2409) @KyleFromNVIDIA
• Improve update-version.sh (#2408) @bdice
• Use tool.scikit-build.cmake.version, set scikit-build-core minimum-version (#2406) @jameslamb
• [FEA] Batching NN Descent (#2403) @jinsolp
• Update pip devcontainers to UCX v1.17.0 (#2401) @jameslamb
• Merge branch-24.08 into branch-24.10 (#2397) @jameslamb