This is the changes that will be in the cudf-polars point release.

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Co-authored-by: Thomas Li <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: David Wendt <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: brandon-b-miller <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Vyas Ramasubramani <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: brandon-b-miller <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Bradley Dice <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Manas Singh <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Manas Singh <[email protected]>

CI only tests 1.7

… branch-24.10-merge-24.08

Forward-merge branch-24.08 to branch-24.10

Adds stream ordering to the public join APIs:

- `inner_join`
- `left_join`
- `full_join`
- `left_semi_join`
- `left_anti_join`
- `cross_join`
- `conditional_inner_join`
- `conditional_left_join`
- `conditional_full_join`
- `conditional_left_semi_join`
- `conditional_left_anti_join`
- `mixed_inner_join`
- `mixed_left_join`
- `mixed_full_join`
- `mixed_left_semi_join`
- `mixed_left_anti_join`
- `mixed_inner_join_size`
- `mixed_left_join_size`
- `conditional_inner_join_size`
- `conditional_left_join_size`
- `conditional_left_semi_join_size`
- `conditional_left_anti_join_size`

closes #16792 
follows up #13744

Authors:
  - Basit Ayantunde (https://github.com/lamarrr)

Approvers:
  - Paul Mattione (https://github.com/pmattione-nvidia)
  - Nghia Truong (https://github.com/ttnghia)
  - David Wendt (https://github.com/davidwendt)

URL: #16793

Adds a much-needed "best practices" page to the Dask cuDF documentation.

Authors:
  - Richard (Rick) Zamora (https://github.com/rjzamora)

Approvers:
  - Peter Andreas Entschev (https://github.com/pentschev)
  - Lawrence Mitchell (https://github.com/wence-)

URL: #16821

Contributes to #15162

One question is that I notice that the libcudf `compute_column` takes an expression computed by a routine in https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/blob/branch-24.10/python/cudf/cudf/core/_internals/expressions.py. Does this need to be moved to pylibcudf too?

Authors:
  - Matthew Roeschke (https://github.com/mroeschke)
  - GALI PREM SAGAR (https://github.com/galipremsagar)

Approvers:
  - GALI PREM SAGAR (https://github.com/galipremsagar)

URL: #16760

The labeler was not updated for the move of pylibcudf to a separate package.

Authors:
  - Vyas Ramasubramani (https://github.com/vyasr)

Approvers:
  - Bradley Dice (https://github.com/bdice)

URL: #16868

This merge request exposes stream-ordering to the public-facing datetime APIs.

- `extract_year`
- `extract_month`
- `extract_day`
- `extract_weekday`
- `extract_hour`
- `extract_minute`
- `extract_second`
- `extract_millisecond_fraction`
- `extract_microsecond_fraction`
- `extract_nanosecond_fraction`
- `last_day_of_month`
- `day_of_year`
- `add_calendrical_months`
- `is_leap_year`
- `days_in_month`
- `extract_quarter`
- `ceil_datetimes`
- `floor_datetimes`
- `round_datetimes`



 Follows-up #13744
Closes #16775

Authors:
  - Basit Ayantunde (https://github.com/lamarrr)

Approvers:
  - Karthikeyan (https://github.com/karthikeyann)
  - Yunsong Wang (https://github.com/PointKernel)

URL: #16774