Extension for Scikit-learn* is happy to introduce 2026.0.0 release!

🚩 Removals and ABI Compatibility

• The following functionality is removed in the 2026.0.0 release:
  • Fitted attributes of BasicStatistics without underscores
  • The ‘use_raw_inputs’ option from GPU estimators scikit-learn-intelex. Array API should be used instead
  • Support for deprecated DPCTL tensors. DPNP arrays should be used instead
  • The deprecated option to build scikit-learn-intelex without the onedal interface, increasing the minimum version of oneDAL required

🚨 What's New

• Introduced new Extension for Scikit-learn* functionality:
  • t-SNE can now work with sparse data
  • Sparse pandas data frames are now correctly handled as sparse inputs
  • Patching for individual estimators now uses full paths and names of the patched scikit-learn objects to reduce ambiguity
  • Added preview support for LogisticRegressionCV
  • Array API support is expanded to more estimators (KNN, K-Means, LogisticRegression)

🪲 Bug Fixes

• Fixed thread-safety issues in GPU estimators

Acknowledgements

Thanks to everyone who helped us make 2026.0.0 release possible!

@Alexandr-Solovev, @Vika-F, @david-cortes-intel, @icfaust, @napetrov, @maria-Petrova, @homksei, @ahuber21, @ethanglaser, @razdoburdin, @avolkov-intel, @yuejiaointel, @DDJHB, @kjackiew, @richardnorth3

Full Changelog: 2025.11.0...2026.0.0