7 Pull requests merged by 5 people

• [ci] Drop support for Python 3.7 and Python 3.8

  #6896 merged Jul 29, 2025

• [python-package] Fix mypy checks in compat.py

  #6898 merged Jul 29, 2025

• [python-package] Follow symlinks to lib_lightgbm in library-loading

  #6977 merged Jul 29, 2025

• [ci] combine pip installs in Python test scripts

  #6981 merged Jul 28, 2025

• [ci] [CUDA] Switch to GitHub runner for GPU CI

  #6958 merged Jul 28, 2025

• [cpp] rename is_finished to produced_empty_tree in cpp and R code

  #6970 merged Jul 28, 2025

• [docs] [ci] skip scikit-learn 1.7.1 in docs build, make tests compatible with pandas 3.0, use new Azure DevOps pool

  #6979 merged Jul 27, 2025

2 Pull requests opened by 2 people

• WIP: [ci] update pre-commit versions, add some pixi things to config files

  #6986 opened Jul 29, 2025

• [python-package] Suppress confusing warning in dask module

  #6987 opened Jul 30, 2025

8 Issues closed by 2 people

• Memory leak in SWIG java wrappers

  #6922 closed Jul 29, 2025

• [CUDA] [python-package] Regarding the time consumption of training LightGBM with CUDA

  #6982 closed Jul 29, 2025

• [c++] Log::Fatal is not aware of a log callback

  #6975 closed Jul 28, 2025

• [GPU] MultiGPU support for LightGBM on a single node?

  #6928 closed Jul 28, 2025

• [RFC] new GPU issue labels

  #6962 closed Jul 27, 2025

• [ci] [python-package] CI failing on pandas 3.0 nightlies: "Fields with bad pandas dtypes: 0: str"

  #6980 closed Jul 27, 2025

• [ci] [docs] sphinx builds failing on scikit-learn links: "CRITICAL: Unexpected section title"

  #6978 closed Jul 27, 2025

• Facing intermittent issues while using LightGBM in Azure Fabric

  #6974 closed Jul 26, 2025

2 Issues opened by 2 people

• logging improvements

  #6984 opened Jul 28, 2025

• Built-in R2 (R-squared) metric

  #6983 opened Jul 28, 2025

11 Unresolved conversations

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• [c++] enhance error handling for forced splits file loading

  #6832 commented on Jul 29, 2025 • 2 new comments

• [python-package] Fix mypy checks in `engine.py`

  #6900 commented on Jul 29, 2025 • 1 new comment

• [CUDA] max_depth parameter is ignored

  #6969 commented on Jul 27, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Dask tests randomly fail with socket error code 54 or 104

  #4074 commented on Jul 28, 2025 • 0 new comments

• Feature Requests & Voting Hub

  #2302 commented on Jul 28, 2025 • 0 new comments

• [CUDA] Objective functions and metrics for cuda_exp

  #5163 commented on Jul 28, 2025 • 0 new comments

• [RFC] [ci] remove Azure DevOps CI jobs?

  #6949 commented on Jul 28, 2025 • 0 new comments

• [python-package] Feature Importance Discrepancy in LightGBM 4.5.0 vs 3.2.1 (Same Data & Hyperparameters)

  #6964 commented on Jul 28, 2025 • 0 new comments

• [python-package] add PyArrow Table to get_data

  #6911 commented on Jul 29, 2025 • 0 new comments

• [python-package] [dask] bind socket to local IP when searching for open ports

  #6916 commented on Jul 29, 2025 • 0 new comments

• [C-API] Avoid C++ includes from arrow.h when including c_api.h

  #6973 commented on Jul 29, 2025 • 0 new comments