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+# cuvs 25.10.00 (8 Oct 2025)
+
+## 🚨 Breaking Changes
+
+- [Java] Uniform toHost/toDevice to work across all CuVSMatrix classes ([#1328](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/1328)) [@ldematte](https://github.com/ldematte)
+- Use int64_t for getters in the cagra/ivf_flat c-api ([#1272](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/1272)) [@benfred](https://github.com/benfred)
+- [REVIEW][Java] Rename destroyIndex() to close(), extend AutoCloseable ([#1252](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/1252)) [@ldematte](https://github.com/ldematte)
+- Removing deprecated batching code specific to NN Descent ([#1249](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/1249)) [@jinsolp](https://github.com/jinsolp)
+- MG C API ([#1160](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/1160)) [@viclafargue](https://github.com/viclafargue)
+
+## 🐛 Bug Fixes
+
+- Update `cpp/cmake/config.json` for `ConfigureTest()` ([#1385](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/1385)) [@KyleFromNVIDIA](https://github.com/KyleFromNVIDIA)
+- Fix k-means++ root rank race condition ([#1359](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/1359)) [@csadorf](https://github.com/csadorf)
+- Fix inadvertent uses of copy constructor in mdarrays across cuVS ([#1330](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/1330)) [@achirkin](https://github.com/achirkin)
+- Refactor CMakeLists to support static only builds of libcuvs ([#1317](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/1317)) [@robertmaynard](https://github.com/robertmaynard)
+- Fix pq_compressed file created by SSD Vamana build ([#1313](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/1313)) [@bkarsin](https://github.com/bkarsin)
+- Revert "[Java]Binary and scalar quantization ([#1104)" (#1274](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/1104)" (#1274)) [@mythrocks](https://github.com/mythrocks)
+- Fix balanced kmeans API ([#1268](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/1268)) [@enp1s0](https://github.com/enp1s0)
+- [BUG] NEIGHBORS_ALL_NEIGHBORS_TEST build ignores --no-mg ([#1230](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/1230)) [@enp1s0](https://github.com/enp1s0)
+- Add error handling for CPU-only bench ([#1203](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/1203)) [@lowener](https://github.com/lowener)
+- Make duplicate removal in all neighbors robust to distance drift across batches ([#1185](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/1185)) [@jinsolp](https://github.com/jinsolp)
+- Fix single GPU sharded search merge ([#1094](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/1094)) [@viclafargue](https://github.com/viclafargue)
+- Processing mutual reachability dist in connect_knn_graph for host data ([#1093](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/1093)) [@jinsolp](https://github.com/jinsolp)
+- [Java][Fix] Multithreaded querying fails without synchronization ([#1082](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/1082)) [@chatman](https://github.com/chatman)
+
+## 📖 Documentation
+
+- Add Vamana C rst Docs to toctree ([#1399](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/1399)) [@tarang-jain](https://github.com/tarang-jain)
+- Regroup overloads in docs ([#1377](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/1377)) [@lowener](https://github.com/lowener)
+- [DOCS] Update IVF Docs with Supported Distance Metrics ([#1365](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/1365)) [@tarang-jain](https://github.com/tarang-jain)
+- Add note about Linux-only support for cuVS pre-compiled packages ([#1306](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/1306)) [@stic](https://github.com/stic)
+- Documentation Fixes ([#1301](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/1301)) [@benfred](https://github.com/benfred)
+- Docs for spectral embedding ([#1299](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/1299)) [@aamijar](https://github.com/aamijar)
+- Improve NN Descent documentation ([#1246](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/1246)) [@jinsolp](https://github.com/jinsolp)
+- Add NN.extend and kmeans to Python doc ([#1217](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/1217)) [@lowener](https://github.com/lowener)
+
+## 🚀 New Features
+
+- [REVIEW] [Java] Option to build fat-jars with native dependencies included ([#1296](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/1296)) [@mythrocks](https://github.com/mythrocks)
+- Updates needed when building with CUDA 13 ([#1219](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/1219)) [@robertmaynard](https://github.com/robertmaynard)
+- [Java] Add CAGRA index graph accessor/build from graph (host memory) ([#1216](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/1216)) [@ldematte](https://github.com/ldematte)
+- [Feat] Add Dockerfile for reproducible installation ([#1195](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/1195)) [@rhdong](https://github.com/rhdong)
+- Vamana C / Python API ([#1112](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/1112)) [@tarang-jain](https://github.com/tarang-jain)
+- Mutual Reachability in all-neighbors API ([#1016](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/1016)) [@jinsolp](https://github.com/jinsolp)
+- CAGRA Build + DiskANN Search cuvs-bench Wrapper ([#899](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/899)) [@tarang-jain](https://github.com/tarang-jain)
+
+## 🛠️ Improvements
+
+- Patch FAISS for missing Thrust includes ([#1398](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/1398)) [@bdice](https://github.com/bdice)
+- Empty commit to trigger a build ([#1363](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/1363)) [@msarahan](https://github.com/msarahan)
+- [Review][Java] Refactor: extract interface from CuVSMatrixBaseImpl ([#1361](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/1361)) [@ldematte](https://github.com/ldematte)
+- use CUDA 13.0.1 CI images ([#1353](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/1353)) [@jameslamb](https://github.com/jameslamb)
+- Treat warnings as errors in doc builds + MG ANNs Python API doc update ([#1350](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/1350)) [@viclafargue](https://github.com/viclafargue)
+- [Java] Support row strides in CuVSMatrix ([#1345](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/1345)) [@ldematte](https://github.com/ldematte)
+- [Java] Adding tests to use CuVSDeviceMatrix (device memory) directly as a CagraIndex input dataset ([#1340](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/1340)) [@ldematte](https://github.com/ldematte)
+- Improve performance of assigning clusters in batched all_neighbors ([#1336](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/1336)) [@jinsolp](https://github.com/jinsolp)
+- Configure repo for automatic release notes generation ([#1334](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/1334)) [@AyodeAwe](https://github.com/AyodeAwe)
+- [Java] Buffered device matrix builder ([#1332](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/1332)) [@ldematte](https://github.com/ldematte)
+- Remove UCX-Py/UCXX from release script ([#1331](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/1331)) [@pentschev](https://github.com/pentschev)
+- [Java] Uniform toHost/toDevice to work across all CuVSMatrix classes ([#1328](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/1328)) [@ldematte](https://github.com/ldematte)
+- [Java] Add `libcuvs` <-> cuvs-java version check ([#1327](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/1327)) [@ldematte](https://github.com/ldematte)
+- update dependencies: use cuda-toolkit wheels ([#1326](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/1326)) [@jameslamb](https://github.com/jameslamb)
+- Add cagra.extend bindings for python ([#1324](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/1324)) [@benfred](https://github.com/benfred)
+- [Java] Make `cudaGetDeviceProperties` compatible with CUDA 12 and 13 based on symbol presence ([#1323](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/1323)) [@ldematte](https://github.com/ldematte)
+- Use branch-25.10 again ([#1319](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/1319)) [@jameslamb](https://github.com/jameslamb)
+- [Review][Java] Add detailed error message for `libcuvs` load failure to UnsupportedProvider/UnsupportedOperationExceptions ([#1316](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/1316)) [@ldematte](https://github.com/ldematte)
+- [Java] Add reason(s) to UnsupportedProvider/UnsupportedOperationExceptions ([#1314](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/1314)) [@ldematte](https://github.com/ldematte)
+- MG Python API ([#1307](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/1307)) [@viclafargue](https://github.com/viclafargue)
+- Fix redundant memset ([#1305](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/1305)) [@vinaydes](https://github.com/vinaydes)
+- Expose pq-centers to C and Python ([#1303](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/1303)) [@benfred](https://github.com/benfred)
+- Port `raft::neighbors::epsilon_neighborhood` to cuvs ([#1294](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/1294)) [@aamijar](https://github.com/aamijar)
+- ScaNN: Overlapped gather for AVQ ([#1286](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/1286)) [@rmaschal](https://github.com/rmaschal)
+- Update rapids-dependency-file-generator ([#1285](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/1285)) [@KyleFromNVIDIA](https://github.com/KyleFromNVIDIA)
+- [Review][Java] Expand `CagraIndex#search` to accept more types (int8 and int32) ([#1283](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/1283)) [@ldematte](https://github.com/ldematte)
+- All neighbors C and Python bindings ([#1282](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/1282)) [@viclafargue](https://github.com/viclafargue)
+- Build and test with CUDA 13.0.0 ([#1273](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/1273)) [@jameslamb](https://github.com/jameslamb)
+- Use int64_t for getters in the cagra/ivf_flat c-api ([#1272](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/1272)) [@benfred](https://github.com/benfred)
+- [Java][C] Expose GPUInfo ([#1267](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/1267)) [@ldematte](https://github.com/ldematte)
+- Add rust bindings for kmeans ([#1266](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/1266)) [@benfred](https://github.com/benfred)
+- [REVIEW] Add a public API for CAGRA graph optimize ([#1260](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/1260)) [@abc99lr](https://github.com/abc99lr)
+- Fix debug build ([#1258](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/1258)) [@lowener](https://github.com/lowener)
+- Run `cargo fmt` in the pre-commit hooks ([#1255](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/1255)) [@benfred](https://github.com/benfred)
+- [REVIEW][Java] Rename destroyIndex() to close(), extend AutoCloseable ([#1252](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/1252)) [@ldematte](https://github.com/ldematte)
+- Removing deprecated batching code specific to NN Descent ([#1249](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/1249)) [@jinsolp](https://github.com/jinsolp)
+- Pin Latest Faiss Version ([#1247](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/1247)) [@tarang-jain](https://github.com/tarang-jain)
+- Use build cluster in devcontainers ([#1240](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/1240)) [@trxcllnt](https://github.com/trxcllnt)
+- Use rapids_cuda_enable_fatbin_compression ([#1239](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/1239)) [@robertmaynard](https://github.com/robertmaynard)
+- [Improvement] Replace Calls to thrust::transform with raft::linalg ([#1238](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/1238)) [@tarang-jain](https://github.com/tarang-jain)
+- [Java] CuVSMatrix for device memory ([#1232](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/1232)) [@ldematte](https://github.com/ldematte)
+- Drop log level for CAGRA trace messages ([#1229](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/1229)) [@mythrocks](https://github.com/mythrocks)
+- Update rapids_config to handle user defined branch name ([#1227](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/1227)) [@robertmaynard](https://github.com/robertmaynard)
+- Reduce noise in Java tests ([#1226](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/1226)) [@mythrocks](https://github.com/mythrocks)
+- Update another instance of rapids-build-backend ([#1225](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/1225)) [@KyleFromNVIDIA](https://github.com/KyleFromNVIDIA)
+- Fix missing sync_stream in ScaNN build ([#1224](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/1224)) [@rmaschal](https://github.com/rmaschal)
+- [Java] Exception-safe RMM Allocations ([#1215](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/1215)) [@mythrocks](https://github.com/mythrocks)
+- Update rapids-build-backend to 0.4.1 ([#1214](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/1214)) [@KyleFromNVIDIA](https://github.com/KyleFromNVIDIA)
+- Removing filter templates in ivfpq for binary size reduction ([#1211](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/1211)) [@jinsolp](https://github.com/jinsolp)
+- ci(labeler): update labeler action to [@v5 ([#1210](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/1210)) @gforsyth](https://github.com/v5 ([#1210](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/1210)) @gforsyth)
+- [Java] Add decorator for synchronized CuVSResource access ([#1209](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/1209)) [@ldematte](https://github.com/ldematte)
+- Remove unused templated instances ([#1204](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/1204)) [@vinaydes](https://github.com/vinaydes)
+- Spectral Embedding precomputed graph api ([#1197](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/1197)) [@aamijar](https://github.com/aamijar)
+- cuvs RAPIDS dependency now use the new rapids-cmake branch info ([#1189](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/1189)) [@robertmaynard](https://github.com/robertmaynard)
+- Allow latest OS in devcontainers ([#1169](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/1169)) [@bdice](https://github.com/bdice)
+- MG C API ([#1160](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/1160)) [@viclafargue](https://github.com/viclafargue)
+- Merge support for tiered index ([#1155](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/1155)) [@benfred](https://github.com/benfred)
+- Update build infra to support new branching strategy ([#1143](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/1143)) [@robertmaynard](https://github.com/robertmaynard)
+- [Java]Binary and scalar quantization ([#1104](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/1104)) [@punAhuja](https://github.com/punAhuja)
+- Improve Vamana index build performance and recall ([#1032](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/1032)) [@bkarsin](https://github.com/bkarsin)
+- Use GCC 14 in conda builds. ([#1030](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/1030)) [@vyasr](https://github.com/vyasr)
+- Update SNMG ANN API testing ([#1023](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/pull/1023)) [@viclafargue](https://github.com/viclafargue)
+
 # cuvs 25.08.00 (6 Aug 2025)
 
 ## 🚨 Breaking Changes