Update catboost requirement from >=1.2.8 to >=1.2.10

[dependabot]

Updates the requirements on catboost to permit the latest version.

Release notes

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1.2.10

New features

• [JVM applier] Add predictTransposed method #2927. Thanks to @​levs2001.
• [Spark]: Support Spark 4.0.x and 4.1.x #2946. Thanks to @​jdries.

Changelog

Sourced from catboost's changelog.

Release 1.2.10

New features

• [JVM applier] Add predictTransposed method #2927. Thanks to @​levs2001.
• [Spark]: Support Spark 4.0.x and 4.1.x #2946. Thanks to @​jdries.

Release 1.2.9

⚠️ There are no JVM artifacts for this release due to issues with publishing.: They will be updated in the next release soon.

Major changes

• [Python-package] Add polars input data support. #2524.

  Polars data structures are supported for features, labels and auxiliary data like weight, timestamp etc.

New features

• [R-package] Make 'predict' an S3 method #1657. Thanks to @​david-cortes.
• Add RMSPE metric and loss (both as are CPU-only for now) #1767. Thanks to @​ivan339339.
• [C/C++ applier] New function LoadFullModelZeroCopy for mmap #2893. Thanks to @​gakoshin.

Improvements

• Remove the limit of 128 threads when loading data. #3027

Speedups

• Optimize Lossguide grow policy on CPU #2883. Approximate speedup is 1.4x. Thanks to @​Levachev.
• [Python-package] Support non-float32 numpy numeric types in multithreaded native features data initialization. #1558, #2847
• [Python-package] Avoid possible repeated reparsing of estimator parameters to canonical forms

Python package

• Support Python 3.14 #2943
• pyproject.toml is now PEP-517 compliant.
• Estimators: Add __sklearn_tags__ method to be compatible with scikit-learn >= 1.8.x. #2955
• Estimators: Add __repr__ method with a meaningful description expected by scikit-learn #2307. Thanks to @​besteady.
• Adapt to the removal of dry_run parameters in setuptools 81.0. pypa/setuptools#4872
• Set upper version bounds for important dependencies to avoid breaking changes

Rust package

• Implement Sync for rust Model struct #2689. Thanks to @​alexeysofin.
• Support Windows #2842
• Fix build on Linux aarch64 #2890. Thanks to @​joelchen.

Build & testing

• [Windows] Support building with MSVC toolsets 14.4*. #2302
• [GPU] Switch from hardcoded gencode specifications in multiple CMakeLists.txt files to the standard CMake variable CMAKE_CUDA_ARCHITECTURES, although the default value is non-standard and specified in cuda.cmake. #2540
• [macOS] Support Apple Clang 17. #2860
• [Python-package][Windows] Fix python package installation from a source distribution. #3024
• [Python-package] wheel build dependency no longer required

Bugfixes

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Commits

• b1bd2a6 CatBoost release 1.2.10.
• 05343ed Make Maven Central auto release configurable.
• b67bd3f Switch from OSSRH to Cental Publisher Portal.
• b702755 Cannot publish JVM artifacts for release 1.2.9
• b1c8d30 Allow to re-run PyPI uploads with 'skip-existing'.
• 60af472 Add 'verbose' flag to PyPI publishing.
• cf43a17 Add -fsized-deallocation into cmake lists
• 7dfa8d5 YQL-20095: Ignore modernize-avoid-c-arrays
• e7d262e CatBoost Release 1.2.9
• 9612731 Update contrib/libs/expat to 2.7.4
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[jgamblin]

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