Replace rapids-xgboost with xgboost in the CI.

[trivialfis]

The CI will continue to install XGBoost from the rapidsai channel until the package is removed. See rapidsai/nvforest#185 (comment)

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• Dependency Updates
  • Updated XGBoost to version 3.3.0 or later through Conda-Forge.
  • Applied the updated dependency across supported CUDA 12.9 and 13.3 environments on both architectures.
  • Replaced the previous RAPIDS XGBoost package dependency in environment and testing configurations.
  • Updated release tooling to reflect the revised dependency setup and extended the copyright notice through 2026.

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The PR replaces rapids-xgboost with xgboost>=3.3.0 in dependency metadata and CUDA environment specifications. The release version-update script no longer processes rapids-xgboost and updates its SPDX notice.

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XGBoost dependency transition

Layer / File(s)	Summary
XGBoost dependency declarations dependencies.yaml, conda/environments/*	Dependency metadata and CUDA 12.9 and 13.3 environment specifications use xgboost>=3.3.0 instead of rapids-xgboost.
Release version update filtering ci/release/update-version.sh	The version-update script no longer processes rapids-xgboost and includes the 2026 SPDX copyright update.

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Possibly related PRs

• rapidsai/cuml#8387: Updates the same environment dependency files and changes the RAPIDS XGBoost version pins.

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[bdice]

Must we specify conda-forge::? I'd like to remove that if it's not strictly necessary.

[trivialfis]

The Rapids channel also has a package named xgboost: https://anaconda.org/channels/rapidsai/packages/xgboost/overview

[trivialfis]

rapidsai/nvforest#185 (comment)

[bdice]

We'll have to figure out what to do with the xgboost packages on rapidsai... strict channel priority is normally to our benefit but it may hurt us here (because we want to stop publishing a package on a higher priority channel). We can't delete the older xgboost packages from rapidsai without breaking the rapids package from past releases.

We may need to re-add the conda-forge:: here in the future, once we require a version newer than 3.3.0.

[jcrist]

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