v24.12.00

@achirkin

🚨 Breaking Changes

Skip gtests for new lanczos solver when CUDA version is 11.4 or below. (#2520) @cjnolet
Switch assert to static_assert (#2510) @divyegala
Revert use of new Lanczos solver in spectral clustering (#2507) @lowener
Put a ceiling on cuda-python (#2486) @bdice
Don't presume pointers location infers usability. (#2480) @robertmaynard
Use Python for sccache hit rate computation. (#2474) @bdice
Allow compilation with CUDA 12.6.1 (#2469) @robertmaynard

Skip gtests for Rmat Lanczos tests with cuda <= 11.4 (#2525) @benfred
Upgrade to latest cutlass version (#2503) @vyasr
Removing some left over places where implicit instantiations were being ignored in headers (#2501) @cjnolet
Remove leftover template project code. (#2500) @bdice
2412 remove libraft vss instantiations (#2498) @cjnolet
Remove raft-ann-bench (#2497) @cjnolet
Pin FAISS Version for raft-ann-bench (#2496) @tarang-jain
enforce wheel size limits and README formatting in CI, put a ceiling on Cython dependency (#2490) @jameslamb
Do not initialize the pinned mdarray at construction time (#2478) @achirkin
Use environment variables in cache hit rate computation. (#2475) @bdice
devcontainer: replace VAULT_HOST with AWS_ROLE_ARN (#2472) @jjacobelli
print sccache stats in builds (#2470) @jameslamb
make package installations in CI stricter (#2467) @jameslamb
Prune workflows based on changed files (#2466) @KyleFromNVIDIA
Merge branch-24.10 into branch-24.12 (#2461) @jameslamb
Update all rmm imports to use pylibrmm/librmm (#2451) @Matt711