v24.10.00

🚨 Breaking Changes

• Replace cuDF (de)serializer with cuDF spill-aware (de)serializer (#1369) @pentschev

📖 Documentation

• Fix typo in spilling documentation (#1384) @rjzamora
• Add notes on cudf spilling to docs (#1383) @rjzamora

🚀 New Features

• [Benchmark] Add parquet read benchmark (#1371) @rjzamora
• Replace cuDF (de)serializer with cuDF spill-aware (de)serializer (#1369) @pentschev

🛠️ Improvements

• Update update-version.sh to use packaging lib (#1387) @AyodeAwe
• Use CI workflow branch 'branch-24.10' again (#1386) @jameslamb
• Update to flake8 7.1.1. (#1385) @bdice
• enable Python 3.12 tests on PRs (#1382) @jameslamb
• Add support for Python 3.12 (#1380) @jameslamb
• Update rapidsai/pre-commit-hooks (#1379) @KyleFromNVIDIA
• Drop Python 3.9 support (#1377) @jameslamb
• Remove NumPy <2 pin (#1375) @seberg
• Update pre-commit hooks (#1373) @KyleFromNVIDIA
• Merge branch-24.08 into branch-24.10 (#1368) @jameslamb