cuda-bindings 11.8.6 Release notes#

Released on January 24, 2025.

Highlights#

  • Support Python 3.13

  • Add an optional dependency on the CUDA NVRTC wheel

  • 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

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.