v24.12.00

🚨 Breaking Changes

• HNSW CPU Hierarchy (#465) @divyegala
• Use dashes in cuvs-bench package name. (#417) @bdice

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Skip IVF-PQ packing test for lists with not enough data (#512) @achirkin
• [BUG] Fix CAGRA filter (#489) @enp1s0
• Add kIsSingleSource to PairwiseDistanceEpilogueElementwise (#485) @KyleFromNVIDIA
• Fix include errors, header, and unsafe locks in iface.hpp (#467) @achirkin
• Fix an OOB error in device-side cuvs::neighbors::refine and CAGRA kern_prune (#460) @achirkin
• Put a ceiling on cuda-python (#445) @bdice
• Enable NVTX in cuvs-cagra-search component (#439) @achirkin
• BUG: CAGRA multi-cta illegal access with bad queries (#438) @achirkin
• Fix index overflow in edge cases of CAGRA graph optimize (#435) @achirkin
• Fix correct call to brute force in generate groundtruth of cuvs-bench (#427) @dantegd
• Use Python for sccache hit rate computation. (#420) @bdice
• Add click package to cuvs-bench conda recipe (#408) @divyegala
• Fix NVTX annotations (#400) @achirkin

📖 Documentation

• [Doc] Fix CAGRA search sample code (#484) @enp1s0
• Fix broken link in README.md references (#473) @Azurethi
• Adding tech stack to docs (#448) @cjnolet
• Fix Question Retrieval notebook (#352) @lowener

🚀 New Features

• Add C++ API scalar quantization (#494) @mfoerste4
• HNSW CPU Hierarchy (#465) @divyegala
• Add serialization API to brute-force (#461) @lowener
• Add Question Retrieval notebook using Milvus (#451) @lowener
• Migrate feature diff for NN Descent from RAFT to cuVS (#421) @divyegala
• Add --no-lap-sync cmd option to ann-bench (#405) @achirkin
• Add InnerProduct and CosineExpanded metric support in NN Descent (#177) @divyegala

🛠️ Improvements

• Update cuvs to match raft's cutlass changes (#516) @vyasr
• add a README for wheels (#504) @jameslamb
• Move check_input_array from pylibraft (#474) @benfred
• use different wheel-size thresholds based on CUDA version (#469) @jameslamb
• Modify cuvs-bench to be able to generate ground truth in CPU systems (#466) @dantegd
• enforce wheel size limits, README formatting in CI (#464) @jameslamb
• Moving spectral embedding and kernel gramm APIs to cuVS (#463) @cjnolet
• Migrate sparse knn and distances code from raft (#457) @benfred
• Don't presume pointers location infers usability. (#441) @robertmaynard
• call enable_testing in root CMakeLists.txt (#437) @robertmaynard
• CAGRA tech debt: distance descriptor and workspace memory (#436) @achirkin
• Add ci run_ scripts needed for build infra (#434) @robertmaynard
• Use environment variables in cache hit rate computation. (#422) @bdice
• Use dashes in cuvs-bench package name. (#417) @bdice
• We need to enable the c_api by default (#416) @robertmaynard
• print sccache stats in builds (#413) @jameslamb
• make conda installs in CI stricter (#406) @jameslamb
• Ivf c example (#404) @abner-ma
• Prune workflows based on changed files (#392) @KyleFromNVIDIA
• [WIP] Add pinned memory resource to C API (#311) @ajit283
• Dynamic Batching (#261) @achirkin