RSN 54 - Increasing CUDA minimum requirement from 12.0 to 12.2 in v25.12

Author	RAPIDS Ops
Status	In Progress
Topic	Platform Support Change
RAPIDS Version	v25.12
Created	29 September 2025
Updated	N/A

Overview

RAPIDS is raising the minimum required CUDA version for the entire software suite from 12.0 to 12.2 starting with the v25.12 release. All of RAPIDS will require a minimum of CUDA 12.2 including containers, all published packages (wheels and conda), and compilation from source in Release v25.12, scheduled for December 11, 2025. v25.10 will be the last RAPIDS release to support CUDA 12.0 and 12.1 runtimes in any format. We are continuing support for CUDA 12 and 13 containers, with CUDA major version tags. See RSN 53 for more information.

Impact

Effective RAPIDS v25.12 release, RAPIDS will require CUDA 12.2, including containers and all our published packages (wheels and conda), and will not support compilation from source with CUDA 12.0. Users who still wish to use CUDA 12.0 may pin to RAPIDS v25.10.