v26.02.00

What's Changed

🚨 Breaking Changes

• Forward-merge changes from release/25.12 to main by @jameslamb in #833
• remove reliance on rapidsai/miniforge-cuda (and therefore ci-imgs), upgrade cuvs-bench-cpu to miniforge 25.9.1-0 by @jameslamb in #836

🐛 Bug Fixes

• reverting brotli fix as its downgrading by @jolorunyomi in #817

🛠️ Improvements

• Forward-merge release/25.12 into main by @jameslamb in #822
• renovate: group GitHub Actions updates into fewer PRs by @jameslamb in #823
• chore(config): migrate Renovate config by @renovate[bot] in #824
• chore(deps): update gh-actions (major) by @renovate[bot] in #825
• chore(deps): update aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials action to v5 by @renovate[bot] in #826
• chore(deps): update dependency go to 1.25.x by @renovate[bot] in #827
• remove unnecessary gha-tools usage, put floors on conda dependencies by @jameslamb in #837
• remove reliance on rapidsai/ci-conda, use a versions.yaml by @jameslamb in #834
• use CUDA 13.1.0 for CUDA 13 images by @jameslamb in #838
• Remove unnecessary Rocky Linux details, add docs, other small simplifications by @jameslamb in #839
• Update pins: openssl>=3.6.1, wheel>=0.46.2 by @jolorunyomi in #844

Full Changelog: v26.02.00a...v26.02.00