RSN 64 - Limiting container images to latest-supported Python

Author	RAPIDS TPM
Status	In Progress
Topic	Platform Support Change
RAPIDS Version	v26.12+
Created	October 15, 2026
Updated	N/A

Overview

Beginning with v26.12, container images will only support the latest-supported Python version from that release’s development cycle.

# before
rapidsai/notebooks:26.12-cuda12-py3.12
rapidsai/notebooks:26.12-cuda12-py3.13
rapidsai/notebooks:26.12-cuda12-py3.14
rapidsai/notebooks:26.12-cuda13-py3.12
rapidsai/notebooks:26.10-cuda13-py3.13
rapidsai/notebooks:26.12-cuda13-py3.14

# after
rapidsai/notebooks:26.12-cuda12
rapidsai/notebooks:26.12-cuda13

For the full list of available tags for the affected images, see:

• https://hub.docker.com/r/rapidsai/base/tags

• https://hub.docker.com/r/rapidsai/cuvs-bench/tags

• https://hub.docker.com/r/rapidsai/cuvs-bench-cpu/tags

• https://hub.docker.com/r/rapidsai/notebooks/tags

Impact

Users should plan to update the tags they used to reference these images when updating to 26.12 or later.

Users requiring other Python versions should plan to interactively update their environments or build their own images, e.g. like this:

FROM rapidsai/notebooks:26.12-cuda13

# downgrade to Python 3.13
RUN conda install --yes --name rapids python=3.13

Supported Python versions for each release are listed at https://docs.nvidia.com/datascience/platform-support/.