v24.08.00

🚨 Breaking Changes

• Use MNMG version of ECG in python layer instead, and remove legacy ECG and Louvain (#4514) @naimnv

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix ucx-py update-version script (#4603) @raydouglass
• add setuptools to host requirements for conda packages that need it (#4582) @jameslamb
• Add pylibcugraph dependency on pylibraft. (#4570) @bdice
• Fix build error with NO_CUGRAPH_OPS (#4563) @seunghwak
• [BUG] Fix Failing WholeGraph Tests (#4560) @alexbarghi-nv
• Temporarily Disable Feature Store Tests with WholeGraph (#4559) @alexbarghi-nv
• Fix MG katz_centrality: Check if DataFrame Arg is Not None (#4555) @nv-rliu
• nx-cugraph: fix from_pandas_edgekey given edgekey but not edgeattr (#4550) @eriknw
• Fix triangle count test bug (#4549) @jnke2016
• [BUG] Use the Correct WG Communicator (#4548) @alexbarghi-nv
• Add Additional Check For SSSP Source Vertex & Fix SSSP Benchmark (#4541) @nv-rliu
• Fix OOM Bug for Jaccard, Sorensen, and Overlap benchmarks (#4524) @nv-rliu
• Distribute start_list across ranks (#4519) @jnke2016
• [FIX] Skip Distributed Sampler Tests if PyTorch with CUDA is not Available (#4518) @alexbarghi-nv
• [BUG] Fix a hang issue in MG triangle counts (when invoked with a small number of vertices to update triangle counts) (#4517) @seunghwak
• Update MG Benchmark List (#4516) @nv-rliu
• Fix TensorProductConv test and improve docs (#4480) @tingyu66
• Test nx-cugraph package instead of editable install (#4442) @KyleFromNVIDIA

📖 Documentation

• DOC: typo in nx_transition.rst (#4491) @raybellwaves
• Doc cleanup for nx-cugraph: fixed typos, cleaned up various descriptions, renamed notebook to match naming convetion. (#4478) @rlratzel
• [DOC] Minor Improvements to cuGraph-PyG Documentation (#4460) @alexbarghi-nv

🚀 New Features

• Use MNMG version of ECG in python layer instead, and remove legacy ECG and Louvain (#4514) @naimnv
• c_api and plc binding for lookup src dst using edge ids and type(s) (#4494) @naimnv
• Forward merge branch-24.06 into branch-24.08 (#4489) @nv-rliu
• [FEA] New Graph Interface and Loaders for Distributed Sampling in DGL (#4486) @alexbarghi-nv
• compute cosine similarity for vertex pairs (#4482) @naimnv
• Define heterogeneous renumbering API (#4463) @seunghwak
• Lookup edge src dst using edge id and type (#4449) @naimnv
• Biased sampling (#4443) @seunghwak

🛠️ Improvements

• nx-cugraph: check networkx version (#4571) @eriknw
• nx-cugraph: add G.__networkx_cache__ to enable graph conversion caching (#4567) @eriknw
• split up CUDA-suffixed dependencies in dependencies.yaml (#4552) @jameslamb
• Use workflow branch 24.08 again (#4544) @KyleFromNVIDIA
• Support non p2p configuration when initializing the comms (#4543) @jnke2016
• Fix Warning from simpleDistributedGraph.py (#4540) @nv-rliu
• Create a graph from the edge list in multiple chunks (#4539) @seunghwak
• nx-cugraph: add dijkstra sssp functions (#4538) @eriknw
• nx-cugraph: add from_dict_of_lists and to_dict_of_lists (#4537) @eriknw
• Ensure get_test_data.sh doesn't re-download datasets (#4536) @trxcllnt
• Define and Implement C API for biased sampling (#4535) @ChuckHastings
• Build and test with CUDA 12.5.1 (#4534) @KyleFromNVIDIA
• Refactor C++ unit tests to allow finer grained filtering (#4533) @ChuckHastings
• [IMP] Set the Default WG Memory Type to 'distributed' for the MNMG PyG Example (#4532) @alexbarghi-nv
• nx-cugraph: add relabel_nodes and convert_node_labels_to_integers (#4531) @eriknw
• Add -cuXX suffixed versions of cugraph-service-client dependency to pyproject.toml's project.dependencies list (#4530) @trxcllnt
• Further optimize from_pandas_edgelist with cudf (#4528) @eriknw
• Performance optimize BFS (including direction optimizing BFS implementation, mainly for single-GPU) (#4527) @seunghwak
• Add CUDA_STATIC_MATH_LIBRARIES (#4526) @KyleFromNVIDIA
• Better handle cudf.pandas in from_pandas_edgelist (#4525) @eriknw
• Skip the benchmark ctests within CI (#4522) @ChuckHastings
• remove thriftpy2 ceiling (#4521) @jameslamb
• Avoid --find-links in wheel jobs (#4509) @jameslamb
• Refactor code base to reduce memory requirement for building libcugraph (#4506) @naimnv
• Tweak rmm configuration for C++ unit tests (#4503) @ChuckHastings
• Expose new all-pairs Similarity algorithms (#4502) @jnke2016
• remove openmpi ceiling (#4496) @jameslamb
• Cut peak memory footprint in per_v_transform_reduce_dst_key_aggregated_outgoing_e (#4484) @seunghwak
• Skip MG dgl_uniform_sampler test in nightlies (#4479) @nv-rliu
• Remove text builds of documentation (#4468) @vyasr
• [IMP] Limit the Test Data Size when Running CI in gcn_dist_sg.py (#4461) @alexbarghi-nv
• Forward Merge branch-24.06 into branch-24.08 (#4454) @nv-rliu
• Properly clean up python directories (#4453) @ChuckHastings
• Fixes for On-Going MG Test Failures (#4450) @nv-rliu
• remove unnecessary 'setuptools' and 'wheel' dependencies (#4448) @jameslamb
• MG Implementation K-Truss (#4438) @jnke2016
• Overhaul ops-codeowners (#4409) @raydouglass
• Use rapids-build-backend (#4393) @KyleFromNVIDIA
• Optimize K-Truss (#4375) @jnke2016