CUDA Python 12.8.0 Release notes

Released on January 24, 2025.

Included components

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)

Known issues

  • Updating from older versions (v12.6.2.post1 and below) via pip install -U cuda-python might not work. Please do a clean re-installation by uninstalling pip uninstall -y cuda-python followed by installing pip install cuda-python.