v22.12.00

🚨 Breaking Changes

• Make local_directory a required argument for spilling impls (#1023) @wence-

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix parse_memory_limit function call (#1055) @galipremsagar
• Work around Jupyter errors in CI (#1041) @pentschev
• Fix version constraint (#1036) @wence-
• Support the new Buffer in cudf (#1033) @madsbk
• Install Dask nightly last in CI (#1029) @pentschev
• Fix recorded time in merge benchmark (#1028) @wence-
• Switch pre-import not found test to sync definition (#1026) @pentschev
• Make local_directory a required argument for spilling impls (#1023) @wence-
• Fixes for handling MIG devices (#950) @pentschev

📖 Documentation

• Merge 22.10 into 22.12 (#1016) @pentschev
• Merge 22.08 into 22.10 (#1010) @pentschev

🚀 New Features

• Allow specifying fractions as RMM pool initial/maximum size (#1021) @pentschev
• Add feature to get cluster configuration (#1006) @quasiben
• Add benchmark option to use dask-noop (#994) @wence-

🛠️ Improvements

• Ensure linting checks for whole repo in CI (#1053) @pentschev
• Pin dask and distributed for release (#1046) @galipremsagar
• Remove pytest-asyncio dependency (#1045) @pentschev
• Migrate as much as possible to pyproject.toml (#1035) @jakirkham
• Re-implement shuffle using staging (#1030) @madsbk
• Explicit-comms-shuffle: fine control of task scheduling (#1025) @madsbk
• Remove stale labeler (#1024) @raydouglass
• Unpin dask and distributed for development (#1005) @galipremsagar
• Support cuDF's built-in spilling (#984) @madsbk