v24.10.00

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Use cupy to measure memory leak (#777) @bdice
• Fix wheel tests for Rocky Linux 8. (#774) @bdice
• Disable custom 2D separable filtering kernels on windows (#770) @grlee77
• chan_vese: pass all constants to _fused_variance_kernel2 as device scalars (#764) @grlee77
• Fix "compatibility" spelling in CHANGELOG (#759) @jakirkham
• Fix error in dependencies.yaml causing incomplete pyproject.toml generation (#757) @grlee77

🛠️ Improvements

• Do not depends on unused libraries for libtiff (#785) @gigony
• Fix a couple of performance issues in peak_local_max (improve performance of blob detectors and corner_peaks) (#782) @grlee77
  • blob_log, blob_dog and blob_doh should see performance improvement from this
  • peak_local_max and corner_peaks will see substantial performance improvement when min_distance=1. A smaller improvement should be seen for larger min_distance
• update vendored CUDA includes to match CuPy >= 13.3 (#781) @grlee77
• Use CI workflow branch 'branch-24.10' again (#780) @jameslamb
• Add support for Python 3.12 (#773) @jameslamb
• Update rapidsai/pre-commit-hooks (#772) @KyleFromNVIDIA
• bump scikit-image upper bound (allow 0.24.x) (#769) @grlee77
• Drop Python 3.9 support (#766) @jameslamb
• Remove NumPy <2 pin (#762) @seberg
• Update pre-commit hooks (#760) @KyleFromNVIDIA
• Switch to pytest-lazy-fixtures (#756) @gigony