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Depend on cuda-core[cu12]/[cu13] in the respective wheel.

cuda-core 1.3.0 (released 2026-11-11) refuses to import unless cuda-bindings meets a minimum version (>=12.9.8 for CUDA 12, >=13.5.0 for CUDA 13). Its metadata declares that minimum only under the cu12/cu13 extras. nvforest wheels depend on plain cuda-core, so pip can install cuda-core 1.3.0 next to an older cuda-bindings, and then import cuda.core fails:

ImportError: cuda.core 1.3.0 requires cuda-bindings >= 12.9.8 for CUDA 12, but cuda-bindings 12.9.3 is installed.

This breaks cuML's nightly wheel tests in two ways:

• In the oldest-deps jobs, cuML pins cuda-bindings==12.9.3.
• In the CUDA 12 integrations job, torch==2.10.0+cu129 pins cuda-bindings==12.9.4.

Examples:

• https://github.com/NVIDIA/cuml/actions/runs/43171195643/job/131024721358
• https://github.com/NVIDIA/cuml/actions/runs/43171195643/job/131024702175

This PR makes the wheels depend on cuda-core[cu12] / cuda-core[cu13], so pip sees the minimum and falls back to cuda-core 1.2.x (the version before what was just released) when cuda-bindings is pinned below 12..9.8. dask-cuda already does this, and cuML's oldest-deps dask job, which gets cuda-core through dask-cuda, resolved cuda-core 1.2.2 and passed.

We could bump the cuda-binding in the oldest job instead, but we'd still be stuck for CUDA 12 in general I think (because pytorch pins things exactly).

I think with this we get the "best of all worlds" where you get the newer cuda-core if there is nothing in your env that keeps cuda-bindings pinned low. And if there is you get the older version of cuda-core. I don't know what the downside of sometimes having cuda-core 1.2.x and sometimes having 1.3.0 is.

One downside is that through cuda-bindings[all], the extra also installs the nvcc, nvrtc, nvjitlink and cufile wheels. This isn't great but for cuml these would anyway get installed.

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  • Updated package versions to the 27.2 series, including variants for CUDA 12 and CUDA 13.
  • Requirements and project metadata now select the CUDA package variant based on configuration. Conda and constraints outputs continue to use the standard package.
  • The Python project now specifies the CUDA 13 package variant. These updates align package declarations across the affected installation outputs.

Dependency pins for nvforest-related packages move from 26.12.* to 27.2.*. The depends_on_cuda_core outputs select CUDA-specific extras for requirements and pyproject, while Conda and constraints keep the unsuffixed package. The nvforest Python project explicitly requests cuda-core[cu13].

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Dependency pins and CUDA-specific selection dependencies.yaml, python/nvforest/pyproject.toml	Dependency pins change to 27.2.*. Requirements and pyproject select cuda-core based on CUDA configuration. The nvforest project requests the cu13 extra.

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Possibly related PRs

• rapidsai/nvforest#193: Both PRs edit the same cuda-core declarations in dependencies.yaml and python/nvforest/pyproject.toml.
• rapidsai/nvforest#274: Both PRs update overlapping dependency pins from 26.12.* to 27.2.*.

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[jameslamb]

One downside is that through cuda-bindings[all], the extra also installs the nvcc, nvrtc, nvjitlink and cufile wheels. This isn't great but for cuml these would anyway get installed.

"these would anyway get installed" isn't true.

docker run --rm -it python:3.12 bash
pip install \
  --extra-index-url https://pypi.anaconda.org/rapidsai-wheels-nightly/simple/ \
  'cuml-cu12==26.12.*,>=0.0a0'

Today, we wouldn't be installing nvidia-nvfatbin.

$ pip list | grep -E 'cuda|nvidia'
cuda-bindings            12.9.10
cuda-core                1.3.0
cuda-pathfinder          1.8.6
cuda-toolkit             12.9.2.0
cupy-cuda12x             14.2.0
numba_cuda_mlir          0.6.0
nvidia-cublas-cu12       12.9.2.10
nvidia-cuda-nvcc-cu12    12.9.86
nvidia-cuda-nvrtc-cu12   12.9.86
nvidia-cuda-runtime-cu12 12.9.79
nvidia-cufft-cu12        11.4.1.4
nvidia-cufile-cu12       1.14.1.1
nvidia-curand-cu12       10.3.10.19
nvidia-cusolver-cu12     11.7.5.82
nvidia-cusparse-cu12     12.5.10.65
nvidia-libnvcomp-cu12    6.0.0.12
nvidia-nccl-cu12         2.32.6
nvidia-nvjitlink-cu12    12.9.86

With this change, we now would 😞

(xref: NVIDIA/numba-cuda-mlir#457 (comment))

pip install \
  --extra-index-url https://pypi.anaconda.org/rapidsai-wheels-nightly/simple/ \
  'cuml-cu12==26.12.*,>=0.0a0' \
  'cuda-core[cu12]>=1.0.0,<2.0.0'

$ pip list | grep -E 'cuda|nvidia'
cuda-bindings            12.9.10
cuda-core                1.3.0
cuda-pathfinder          1.8.6
cuda-toolkit             12.9.2.0
cupy-cuda12x             14.2.0
numba_cuda_mlir          0.6.0
nvidia-cublas-cu12       12.9.2.10
nvidia-cuda-nvcc-cu12    12.9.86
nvidia-cuda-nvrtc-cu12   12.9.86
nvidia-cuda-runtime-cu12 12.9.79
nvidia-cufft-cu12        11.4.1.4
nvidia-cufile-cu12       1.14.1.1
nvidia-curand-cu12       10.3.10.19
nvidia-cusolver-cu12     11.7.5.82
nvidia-cusparse-cu12     12.5.10.65
nvidia-libnvcomp-cu12    6.0.0.12
nvidia-nccl-cu12         2.32.6
nvidia-nvfatbin-cu12     12.9.82
nvidia-nvjitlink-cu12    12.9.86

Maybe that's unavoidable in the current situation :/

(posting as a "comment" review to make this linkable, let me think about this a bit more)

[csadorf]

I retargeted this to release/26.12.

[jameslamb]

Based on offline discussion, I think we're accepting the extra dependencies right now in exchange for ensuring solvers always choose compatible cuda-core and cuda-bindings packages. I support merging this.

[csadorf]

/merge