release notes change, bump version

Signed-off-by: Lawrence Lane <[email protected]>

Author: lbliii

docs/about/release-notes/index.md

@@ -12,184 +12,6 @@ modality: "universal"
 
 # NeMo Curator Release Notes: {{ current_release }}
 
-This major release represents a fundamental architecture shift from [Dask](https://www.dask.org/) to [Ray](https://www.ray.io/), expanding NeMo Curator to support multimodal data curation with new [video](../../curate-video/index.md) and [audio](../../curate-audio/index.md) capabilities. This refactor enables unified backend processing, better heterogeneous computing support, and enhanced autoscaling for dynamic workloads.
-
-**Migrating from a previous version of NeMo Curator?** Refer to the {ref}`Migration Guide <migration-guide>` for step-by-step instructions and the {ref}`Migration FAQ <migration-faq>` for common questions.
-
-## Installation Updates
-
-- **New Docker container**: Updated Docker infrastructure with CUDA 12.8.1 and Ubuntu 24.04 base; obtainable through the [NGC Catalog](https://catalog.ngc.nvidia.com/orgs/nvidia/containers/nemo-curator) (`nvcr.io/nvidia/nemo-curator:{{ container_version }}`)
-- **Docker file to build own image**: Simplified [Dockerfile](https://github.com/NVIDIA-NeMo/Curator/blob/main/docker/Dockerfile) structure for custom container builds with FFmpeg support
-- **UV source installations**: Integrated UV package manager (v0.8.22) for faster dependency management
-- **PyPI improvements**: Enhanced PyPI installation with modular extras for targeted functionality:
-
-  ```{list-table} Available Installation Extras
-  :header-rows: 1
-  :widths: 25 35 40
-
-  * - Extra
-    - Installation Command
-    - Description
-  * - **All Modalities**
-    - `nemo-curator[all]`
-    - Complete installation with all modalities and GPU support
-  * - **Text Curation**
-    - `nemo-curator[text_cuda12]`
-    - GPU-accelerated text processing with RAPIDS
-  * - **Image Curation**
-    - `nemo-curator[image_cuda12]`
-    - Image processing with NVIDIA DALI
-  * - **Audio Curation**
-    - `nemo-curator[audio_cuda12]`
-    - Speech recognition with NeMo ASR models
-  * - **Video Curation**
-    - `nemo-curator[video_cuda12]`
-    - Video processing with GPU acceleration
-  * - **Basic GPU**
-    - `nemo-curator[cuda12]`
-    - CUDA utilities without modality-specific dependencies
-  ```
-
-  All GPU installations require the NVIDIA PyPI index:
-  ```bash
-  uv pip install https://pypi.nvidia.com nemo-curator[EXTRA]
-  ```
-
-## New Modalities
-
-### Video
-
-NeMo Curator now supports comprehensive [video data curation](../../curate-video/index.md) with distributed processing capabilities:
-
-- **Video splitting**: [Fixed-stride](../../curate-video/process-data/clipping.md) and [scene-change detection (TransNetV2)](../../curate-video/process-data/clipping.md) for clip extraction
-- **Semantic deduplication**: [K-means clustering and pairwise similarity](../../curate-video/process-data/dedup.md) for near-duplicate clip removal
-- **Content filtering**: [Motion-based filtering](../../curate-video/process-data/filtering.md) and [aesthetic filtering](../../curate-video/process-data/filtering.md) for quality improvement
-- **Embedding generation**: InternVideo2 and Cosmos-Embed1 models for clip-level embeddings
-- **Enhanced captioning**: [VL-based caption generation with optional LLM-based rewriting](../../curate-video/process-data/captions-preview.md) (Qwen-VL and Qwen-LM supported) for detailed video descriptions
-- **Ray-based distributed architecture**: Scalable video processing with [autoscaling support](../concepts/video/architecture.md)
-
-### Audio
-
-New [audio curation capabilities](../../curate-audio/index.md) for speech data processing:
-
-- **ASR inference**: [Automatic speech recognition](../../curate-audio/process-data/asr-inference/index.md) using NeMo Framework pretrained models
-- **Quality assessment**: [Word Error Rate (WER) and Character Error Rate (CER)](../../curate-audio/process-data/quality-assessment/index.md) calculation
-- **Speech metrics**: [Duration analysis and speech rate metrics](../../curate-audio/process-data/audio-analysis/index.md) (words/characters per second)
-- **Text integration**: Seamless integration with [text curation workflows](../../curate-audio/process-data/text-integration/index.md) via `AudioToDocumentStage`
-- **Manifest support**: JSONL manifest format for audio file management
-
-## Modality Refactors
-
-### Text
-
-- **Ray backend migration**: Complete transition from Dask to Ray for distributed [text processing](../../curate-text/index.md)
-- **Improved model-based classifier throughput**: Better overlapping of compute between tokenization and inference through [length-based sequence sorting](../../curate-text/process-data/quality-assessment/distributed-classifier.md) for optimal GPU memory utilization
-- **Task-centric architecture**: New `Task`-based processing model for finer-grained control
-- **Pipeline redesign**: Updated `ProcessingStage` and `Pipeline` architecture with resource specification
-
-### Image
-
-- **Pipeline-based architecture**: Transitioned from legacy `ImageTextPairDataset` to modern [stage-based processing](../../curate-images/index.md) with `ImageReaderStage`, `ImageEmbeddingStage`, and filter stages
-- **DALI-based image loading**: New `ImageReaderStage` uses NVIDIA DALI for high-performance WebDataset tar shard processing with GPU/CPU fallback
-- **Modular processing stages**: Separate stages for [embedding generation](../../curate-images/process-data/embeddings/index.md), [aesthetic filtering](../../curate-images/process-data/filters/aesthetic.md), and [NSFW filtering](../../curate-images/process-data/filters/nsfw.md)
-- **Task-based data flow**: Images processed as `ImageBatch` tasks containing `ImageObject` instances with metadata, embeddings, and classification scores
-
-Learn more about [image curation](../../curate-images/index.md).
-
-## Deduplication Improvements
-
-Enhanced deduplication capabilities across all modalities with improved performance and flexibility:
-
-- **Exact and Fuzzy deduplication**: Updated [rapidsmpf-based shuffle backend](../../reference/infrastructure/gpu-processing.md) for more efficient GPU-to-GPU data transfer and better spilling capabilities
-- **Semantic deduplication**: Support for deduplicating [text](../../curate-text/process-data/deduplication/semdedup.md) and [video](../../curate-video/process-data/dedup.md) datasets using unified embedding-based workflows
-- **New ranking strategies**: Added `RankingStrategy` which allows you to rank elements within cluster centers to decide which point to prioritize during duplicate removal, supporting [metadata-based ranking](../../curate-text/process-data/deduplication/semdedup.md) to prioritize specific datasets or inputs
-
-## Core Refactors
-
-The architecture refactor introduces a layered system with unified interfaces and multiple execution backends:
-
-```{mermaid}
-graph LR
-    subgraph "User Layer"
-        P[Pipeline]
-        S1[ProcessingStage X→Y]
-        S2[ProcessingStage Y→Z]
-        S3[ProcessingStage Z→W]
-        R[Resources<br/>CPU/GPU/NVDEC/NVENC]
-    end
-    
-    subgraph "Orchestration Layer"
-        BE[BaseExecutor Interface]
-    end
-    
-    subgraph "Backend Layer"
-        XE[XennaExecutor<br/>Production Ready]
-        RAP[RayActorPoolExecutor<br/>Experimental]
-        RDE[RayDataExecutor<br/>Experimental]
-    end
-    
-    subgraph "Adaptation Layer"
-        XA[Xenna Adapter]
-        RAPA[Ray Actor Adapter]
-        RDA[Ray Data Adapter]
-    end
-    
-    subgraph "Execution Layer"
-        X[Cosmos-Xenna<br/>Streaming/Batch]
-        RAY1[Ray Actor Pool<br/>Load Balancing]
-        RAY2[Ray Data API<br/>Dataset Processing]
-    end
-    
-    P --> S1
-    P --> S2
-    P --> S3
-    S1 -.-> R
-    S2 -.-> R
-    S3 -.-> R
-    
-    P --> BE
-    BE --> XE
-    BE --> RAP
-    BE --> RDE
-    
-    XE --> XA
-    RAP --> RAPA
-    RDE --> RDA
-    
-    XA --> X
-    RAPA --> RAY1
-    RDA --> RAY2
-    
-    style XE fill:#90EE90
-    style RAP fill:#FFE4B5
-    style RDE fill:#FFE4B5
-    style P fill:#E6F3FF
-    style BE fill:#F0F8FF
-```
-
-### Pipelines
-
-- **New Pipeline API**: Ray-based pipeline execution with `BaseExecutor` interface
-- **Multiple backends**: Support for [Xenna, Ray Actor Pool, and Ray Data execution backends](../../reference/infrastructure/execution-backends.md)
-- **Resource specification**: Configurable CPU and GPU memory requirements per stage
-- **Stage composition**: Improved stage validation and execution orchestration
-
-### Stages
-
-- **ProcessingStage redesign**: Generic `ProcessingStage[X, Y]` base class with type safety
-- **Resource requirements**: Built-in resource specification for CPU and GPU memory
-- **Backend adapters**: Stage adaptation layer for different Ray orchestration systems
-- **Input/output validation**: Enhanced type checking and data validation
-
-## Tutorials
-
-- **Text tutorials**: Updated all [text curation tutorials](https://github.com/NVIDIA-NeMo/Curator/tree/main/tutorials/text) to use new Ray-based API
-- **Image tutorials**: Migrated [image processing tutorials](https://github.com/NVIDIA-NeMo/Curator/tree/main/tutorials/image) to unified backend
-- **Audio tutorials**: New [audio curation tutorials](https://github.com/NVIDIA-NeMo/Curator/tree/main/tutorials/audio)
-- **Video tutorials**: New [video processing tutorials](https://github.com/NVIDIA-NeMo/Curator/tree/main/tutorials/video)
-
-For all tutorial content, refer to the [tutorials directory](https://github.com/NVIDIA-NeMo/Curator/tree/main/tutorials) in the NeMo Curator GitHub repository.
-
 ## Synthetic Data Generation
 
 New Ray-based synthetic data generation capabilities for creating and augmenting training data using LLMs:
@@ -205,35 +27,12 @@ New Ray-based synthetic data generation capabilities for creating and augmenting
 
 Learn more in the [Synthetic Data Generation documentation](../../curate-text/synthetic/index.md).
 
-## Known Limitations
-
-> (Pending Refactor in Future Release)
-
-### Generation
-
-- **Hard negative mining**: Retrieval-based data generation workflows under development
-
-### PII
-
-- **PII processing**: Personal Identifiable Information removal tools are being updated for Ray backend
-- **Privacy workflows**: Enhanced privacy-preserving data curation capabilities in development
-
-### Blending & Shuffling
-
-- **Data blending**: Multi-source dataset blending functionality being refactored
-- **Dataset shuffling**: Large-scale data shuffling operations under development
-
-## Docs Refactor
-
-- **Local preview capability**: Improved documentation build system with local preview support
-- **Modality-specific guides**: Comprehensive documentation for each supported modality ([text](../../curate-text/index.md), [image](../../curate-images/index.md), [audio](../../curate-audio/index.md), [video](../../curate-video/index.md))
-- **API reference**: Complete [API documentation](../../apidocs/index.rst) with type annotations and examples
 
 ---
 
 ## What's Next
 
-The next release will focus on completing the refactor of Synthetic Data Generation, PII, and Blending & Shuffling features, along with additional performance optimizations and new modality support.
+The next release will focus on ...
 
 ```{toctree}
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docs/conf.py

@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
 project = "NeMo-Curator"
 project_copyright = "2025, NVIDIA Corporation"
 author = "NVIDIA Corporation"
-release = "25.09"
+release = "26.02"
 
 # -- General configuration ---------------------------------------------------
 # https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/usage/configuration.html#general-configuration
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@
     "min_python_version": "3.8",
     "recommended_cuda": "12.0+",
     "current_release": release,
-    "container_version": "25.09",
+    "container_version": "26.02",
 }
 
 # Enable figure numbering

docs/versions1.json

@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@
 [
     {
         "preferred": true,
+        "version": "26.02",
+        "url": "https://docs.nvidia.com/nemo/curator/26.02/"
+    },
+    {
+        "preferred": false,
         "version": "25.09",
         "url": "https://docs.nvidia.com/nemo/curator/25.09/"
     },