`cuda.core` 0.2.0 Release Notes¶

Released on <TODO>, 2025

Highlights¶

Add ProgramOptions to facilitate the passing of runtime compile options to Program.
Add pythonic access to Device and Kernel attributes.

The stream attribute is removed from LaunchConfig. Instead, the Stream object should now be directly passed to launch() as an argument.
The signature for launch() is changed by swapping positional arguments, the new signature is now (stream, config, kernel, *kernel_args)
Change __cuda_stream__ from attribute to method.
The Program.compile() method no longer accepts the options argument. Instead, you can optionally pass an instance of ProgramOptions to the constructor of Program.
Device.properties() now provides attribute getters instead of a dictionary interface.
The .handle attribute of various cuda.core objects now returns the underlying Python object instead of a (type-erased) Python integer.

Expose ObjectCode as a public API, which allows loading cubins from memory or disk. For loading other kinds of code types, please continue using Program.
A C++ helper function get_cuda_native_handle() is provided in the new include/utility.cuh header to retrive the underlying CUDA C objects (ex: CUstream) from a Python object returned by the .handle attribute (ex: Stream.handle).
For objects such as Program and Linker that could dispatch to different backends, a new .backend attribute is provided to query this information.
Support CUDA event timing.
An Event may now be created without recording it to a Stream using the Device.create_event() method.