cuda-bindings 12.8.0 Release notes

Released on January 24, 2025.

Highlights

  • Support Python 3.13

  • Add bindings for nvJitLink (requires nvJitLink from CUDA 12.3 or above)

  • Add optional dependencies on CUDA NVRTC and nvJitLink wheels

  • Enable discovery and loading of shared libraries from CUDA wheels

  • cuda-python is now a meta package, currently depending only on cuda-bindings (see RFC)

Wheels support for optional dependencies

Optional dependencies are added for packages:

  • nvidia-cuda-nvrtc-cu12

  • nvidia-nvjitlink-cu12

Installing these dependencies with cuda-python can be done using:

pip install cuda-python[all]

Same applies to cuda-bindings.

Discovery and loading of shared library dependencies from wheels

Shared library search paths for wheel builds are now extended to check site-packages. This allows cuda-python/cuda-bindings to seamlessly use the aforementioned CUDA Toolkit wheels installed in the user’s Python environment.