[NIGHTLY] v24.12.00

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🚨 Breaking Changes

• Deprecate support for directly accessing logger (#1690) @vyasr

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix typos in .gitignore (#1697) @charlesbluca
• Fix rmm ._lib imports (#1693) @Matt711

📖 Documentation

• Fix docs warning (#1706) @bdice
• Update cross-link to cuda-python object (#1699) @wence-

🚀 New Features

• Update rmm tests to use rapids_cmake_support_conda_env (#1707) @robertmaynard

🛠️ Improvements

• devcontainer: replace VAULT_HOST with AWS_ROLE_ARN (#1708) @jjacobelli
• make conda installs in CI stricter (part 2) (#1703) @jameslamb
• Add BUILD_SHARED_LIBS option defaulting to ON (#1702) @wence-
• make conda installs in CI stricter (#1696) @jameslamb
• Prune workflows based on changed files (#1695) @KyleFromNVIDIA
• Deprecate support for directly accessing logger (#1690) @vyasr
• Use rmm::percent_of_free_device_memory in arena test (#1689) @wence-
• exclude 'gcovr' from list of development pip packages (#1688) @jameslamb
• [Improvement] Reorganize Cython to separate C++ bindings and make Cython classes public (#1676) @Matt711