v24.08.00

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix partitioning in explicit-comms shuffle (#1356) @rjzamora
• Update cuDF's assert_eq import (#1353) @pentschev

🚀 New Features

• Add arguments to enable cuDF spilling and set statistics (#1362) @pentschev
• Allow disabling RMM in benchmarks (#1352) @pentschev

🛠️ Improvements

• consolidate cuda_suffixed=false blocks in dependencies.yaml, fix update-version.sh (#1367) @jameslamb
• split up CUDA-suffixed dependencies in dependencies.yaml (#1364) @jameslamb
• Use verify-alpha-spec hook (#1360) @KyleFromNVIDIA
• Use workflow branch 24.08 again (#1359) @KyleFromNVIDIA
• Build and test with CUDA 12.5.1 (#1357) @KyleFromNVIDIA
• Drop setup.py (#1354) @jakirkham
• remove .gitattributes (#1350) @jameslamb
• make conda recipe data-loading stricter (#1349) @jameslamb
• Adopt CI/packaging codeowners (#1347) @bdice
• Remove text builds of documentation (#1346) @vyasr
• use rapids-build-backend (#1343) @jameslamb