v25.08.00

🚨 Breaking Changes

• Move gnn.comms to PLC (#5166) @nv-rliu
• Update decompress_to_edgelist to take an optional large buffer type as an input parameter. (#5165) @seunghwak
• Optionally create a graph object in a large memory buffer (#5148) @seunghwak
• Compile Optimizations - batch 3 (#5119) @ChuckHastings
• Optionally store the generated edge list in pinned memory buffer (#5116) @seunghwak
• Resolve inconsistencies in algorithms that do not support self-loops & multi-edges. (#5109) @seunghwak
• Use pytest-xdist on Python Tests (#5102) @nv-rliu
• Remove CUDA 11 from dependencies.yaml (#5101) @KyleFromNVIDIA
• stop uploading packages to downloads.rapids.ai (#5096) @jameslamb

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [HOTFIX] Skips PG benchmarks for cyber datasets (#5209) @rlratzel
• Fix sampling bug introduced by compile time optimizations (#5199) @ChuckHastings
• [BUG] Fix Broken gnn.comms Import (#5183) @alexbarghi-nv
• Bug fix in assert() (#5142) @seunghwak
• Fix build error with gcc 14. (#5127) @seunghwak
• Fix Resultset Tests for Compat with xdist (#5125) @nv-rliu
• Allow Graph.from_numpy_array to accept nodes that are types not supported by cupy (#5123) @mroeschke
• Adding GH_TOKEN pass-through to summarize job (#5118) @msarahan
• [BUG] Fix Comms Shutdown Function (#5115) @alexbarghi-nv
• Add support for isolated vertices and fix bug in the link prediction algorithms (#5110) @jnke2016
• Update BC computation to address normalization edge conditions (#5105) @ChuckHastings
• Fix pylibcudf dependency (#5085) @vyasr

📖 Documentation

• remove references to DGL (#5197) @jameslamb
• redirecting GNN content to the docs pages and fixed libcugraph link (#5168) @acostadon
• [DOC] Remove DGL Reference from README (#5167) @alexbarghi-nv
• removed cuda 11 reference (#5163) @acostadon
• add docs on CI workflow inputs (#5139) @jameslamb

🚀 New Features

• Optionally create a graph object in a large memory buffer (#5148) @seunghwak
• Optionally store the generated edge list in pinned memory buffer (#5116) @seunghwak
• Implement transform_gather_e (#5106) @seunghwak
• Add edge_multi_index_property_t (#5104) @seunghwak
• added new benchmark nb to run mg or sg with more algorithms (#4933) @acostadon

🛠️ Improvements

• Drop old CUDA pre-10 logic (#5187) @jakirkham
• Disable codecov comments (#5185) @bdice
• Updates UCX test scripts and Dockerfile for CUDA 12.x (#5174) @rlratzel
• Update update_edge_src|dst_property behavior (with vertex list) (#5173) @seunghwak
• Move gnn.comms to PLC (#5166) @nv-rliu
• Update decompress_to_edgelist to take an optional large buffer type as an input parameter. (#5165) @seunghwak
• fix(docker): use versioned -latest tag for all rapidsai images (#5164) @gforsyth
• Remove cuda11 reference from CMake file (#5162) @ChuckHastings
• Relax PyTorch pinning to >=2.3. (#5159) @bdice
• [IMP] Allow Metadata Specification in Distributed Sampler (#5152) @alexbarghi-nv
• Add test for Cosine Similarity algorithm (#5150) @jnke2016
• Fix calls to Client.scheduler_info (#5147) @TomAugspurger
• Update MST test (#5143) @jnke2016
• Use CUDA 12.9 in Conda, Devcontainers, Spark, GHA, etc. (#5137) @jakirkham
• Correct C API test for uniform neighborhood sampling (#5136) @ChuckHastings
• Re-enable cugraph service test (#5134) @jnke2016
• First set of updates - Centrality and community (#5133) @BradReesWork
• Compile Optimizations - batch 4 (#5132) @ChuckHastings
• Remove nvidia and dask channels (#5129) @vyasr
• Temporarily Disable Cugraph Service test (#5128) @jnke2016
• refactor(rattler): remove cuda11 options and general cleanup (#5126) @gforsyth
• Remove the deprecated random walks API (#5122) @jnke2016
• Remove deprecation warning when symmetrizing the edgelist (#5121) @jnke2016
• Compile Optimizations - batch 3 (#5119) @ChuckHastings
• Compile optimizations - batch 2 (#5117) @ChuckHastings
• Refactor cugraph.datasets tests to be xdist compatible (#5114) @nv-rliu
• Compilation optimizations - batch 1 (#5112) @ChuckHastings
• Resolve inconsistencies in algorithms that do not support self-loops & multi-edges. (#5109) @seunghwak
• Use pytest-xdist on Python Tests (#5102) @nv-rliu
• Remove CUDA 11 from dependencies.yaml (#5101) @KyleFromNVIDIA
• Remove CUDA 11 devcontainers and update CI scripts (#5100) @bdice
• Require Cython>=3.1.2 (#5097) @vyasr
• stop uploading packages to downloads.rapids.ai (#5096) @jameslamb
• Branch 25.08 merge 25.06 (#5090) @rlratzel
• Forward-merge branch-25.06 into branch-25.08 (#5079) @gforsyth
• Forward-merge branch-25.06 into branch-25.08 (#5062) @gforsyth
• Temporal sampling implementation (#4994) @ChuckHastings