diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 08ae2eed4f..6ee26b1246 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,77 @@
+# cuml 25.02.00 (13 Feb 2025)
+
+## 🚨 Breaking Changes
+
+- update pip devcontainers to UCX 1.18 ([#6249](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuml/pull/6249)) [@jameslamb](https://github.com/jameslamb)
+
+## 🐛 Bug Fixes
+
+- Fix dask logistic regression segfault/hang due to wrongly typed variable ([#6281](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuml/pull/6281)) [@dantegd](https://github.com/dantegd)
+- Log UMAP arrays at trace verbosity level. ([#6274](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuml/pull/6274)) [@csadorf](https://github.com/csadorf)
+- Ensure all method signatures are sklearn compatible ([#6260](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuml/pull/6260)) [@jcrist](https://github.com/jcrist)
+- Fix UMAP transform illegal memory access error when data_on_host=True ([#6259](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuml/pull/6259)) [@csadorf](https://github.com/csadorf)
+- Ignore cudf's __dataframe__ deprecation. ([#6229](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuml/pull/6229)) [@bdice](https://github.com/bdice)
+- Fix for porter stemmer for cuDF change and ARIMA pytest adjustments ([#6227](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuml/pull/6227)) [@dantegd](https://github.com/dantegd)
+- Avoid duplicate log entries ([#6222](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuml/pull/6222)) [@jcrist](https://github.com/jcrist)
+- Further fixes for Scipy 1.15 update for PR and nightly CI ([#6213](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuml/pull/6213)) [@dantegd](https://github.com/dantegd)
+- Update setulb call from Scipy for updated signature of 1.15 ([#6207](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuml/pull/6207)) [@dantegd](https://github.com/dantegd)
+- Adjust test_kmeans to avoid false positive failures ([#6193](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuml/pull/6193)) [@dantegd](https://github.com/dantegd)
+- Adjust margin of logistic regression `log_proba` pytest to avoid false positive failures ([#6188](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuml/pull/6188)) [@dantegd](https://github.com/dantegd)
+- Skip flaky test of kernel_density in nightly job of CUDA 12.0.1 ([#6184](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuml/pull/6184)) [@dantegd](https://github.com/dantegd)
+- Try to reduce network usage in cuML tests. ([#6174](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuml/pull/6174)) [@bdice](https://github.com/bdice)
+- cuML dask fixes to unblock CI ([#6170](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuml/pull/6170)) [@dantegd](https://github.com/dantegd)
+- Remap BATCH_TREE_REORG to TREE_REORG in FIL ([#6161](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuml/pull/6161)) [@wphicks](https://github.com/wphicks)
+
+## 📖 Documentation
+
+- Fixes github link from pyx files ([#6202](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuml/pull/6202)) [@thomasjpfan](https://github.com/thomasjpfan)
+
+## 🚀 New Features
+
+- Allow CUDA ODR violations in 25.02 ([#6264](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuml/pull/6264)) [@robertmaynard](https://github.com/robertmaynard)
+- Define block size for sm_120 ([#6250](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuml/pull/6250)) [@robertmaynard](https://github.com/robertmaynard)
+- Support `alpha=0` in `Ridge` ([#6236](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuml/pull/6236)) [@jcrist](https://github.com/jcrist)
+- Add `as_sklearn` and `from_sklearn` APIs to serialize to CPU sklearn-estimators for supported models ([#6102](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuml/pull/6102)) [@dantegd](https://github.com/dantegd)
+
+## 🛠️ Improvements
+
+- Use `rapids-pip-retry` in CI jobs that might need retries ([#6293](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuml/pull/6293)) [@gforsyth](https://github.com/gforsyth)
+- Avoid large device allocation in UMAP with nndescent ([#6292](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuml/pull/6292)) [@jcrist](https://github.com/jcrist)
+- Revert CUDA 12.8 shared workflow branch changes ([#6282](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuml/pull/6282)) [@vyasr](https://github.com/vyasr)
+- Build and test with CUDA 12.8.0 ([#6266](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuml/pull/6266)) [@bdice](https://github.com/bdice)
+- update pip devcontainers to UCX 1.18 ([#6249](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuml/pull/6249)) [@jameslamb](https://github.com/jameslamb)
+- Drop deprecated thrust features and replace with libcu++ ones ([#6248](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuml/pull/6248)) [@miscco](https://github.com/miscco)
+- Add upper bound to prevent usage of numba 0.61.0 ([#6244](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuml/pull/6244)) [@galipremsagar](https://github.com/galipremsagar)
+- Normalize whitespace ([#6238](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuml/pull/6238)) [@bdice](https://github.com/bdice)
+- Rename cpp/test to cpp/tests. ([#6237](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuml/pull/6237)) [@bdice](https://github.com/bdice)
+- Use cuda.bindings layout. ([#6233](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuml/pull/6233)) [@bdice](https://github.com/bdice)
+- Skip dispatching to GPU for unimplemented metrics in UMAP ([#6224](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuml/pull/6224)) [@betatim](https://github.com/betatim)
+- Use GCC 13 in CUDA 12 conda builds. ([#6221](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuml/pull/6221)) [@bdice](https://github.com/bdice)
+- declare cuda-python dependency for wheels, other small packaging changes ([#6217](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuml/pull/6217)) [@jameslamb](https://github.com/jameslamb)
+- Bump Treelite to 4.4.1 ([#6212](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuml/pull/6212)) [@hcho3](https://github.com/hcho3)
+- Support raft's logger targets ([#6208](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuml/pull/6208)) [@vyasr](https://github.com/vyasr)
+- Use rapids-cmake for the logger ([#6205](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuml/pull/6205)) [@vyasr](https://github.com/vyasr)
+- consolidate pytest config in pyproject.toml ([#6201](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuml/pull/6201)) [@jameslamb](https://github.com/jameslamb)
+- introduce libcuml wheels ([#6199](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuml/pull/6199)) [@jameslamb](https://github.com/jameslamb)
+- Check if nightlies have succeeded recently enough ([#6196](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuml/pull/6196)) [@vyasr](https://github.com/vyasr)
+- Remove sphinx pinning ([#6195](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuml/pull/6195)) [@vyasr](https://github.com/vyasr)
+- simplify wheel CI scripts, other small packaging changes ([#6190](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuml/pull/6190)) [@jameslamb](https://github.com/jameslamb)
+- Update for raft logger changes ([#6187](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuml/pull/6187)) [@vyasr](https://github.com/vyasr)
+- update telemetry actions to fluent-bit friendly style ([#6186](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuml/pull/6186)) [@msarahan](https://github.com/msarahan)
+- HDBSCAN and KMeans API improvements for improving CPU interoperability ([#6181](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuml/pull/6181)) [@dantegd](https://github.com/dantegd)
+- CPU/GPU interop with RandomForest ([#6175](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuml/pull/6175)) [@hcho3](https://github.com/hcho3)
+- Update version references in workflow ([#6172](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuml/pull/6172)) [@AyodeAwe](https://github.com/AyodeAwe)
+- gate telemetry dispatch calls on TELEMETRY_ENABLED env var ([#6171](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuml/pull/6171)) [@msarahan](https://github.com/msarahan)
+- Use rapids-logger to generate the cuml logger ([#6162](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuml/pull/6162)) [@vyasr](https://github.com/vyasr)
+- Use estimator tags to improve sparse error handling ([#6151](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuml/pull/6151)) [@dantegd](https://github.com/dantegd)
+- FEA Add support for accepting a Numpy RandomState ([#6150](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuml/pull/6150)) [@betatim](https://github.com/betatim)
+- prefer system install of UCX in pip devcontainers, update outdated RAPIDS references ([#6149](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuml/pull/6149)) [@jameslamb](https://github.com/jameslamb)
+- Improve infrastructure for experimental dispatching of non existing methods in cuML ([#6148](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuml/pull/6148)) [@dantegd](https://github.com/dantegd)
+- Adapt to rmm logger changes ([#6147](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuml/pull/6147)) [@vyasr](https://github.com/vyasr)
+- Require approval to run CI on draft PRs ([#6145](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuml/pull/6145)) [@bdice](https://github.com/bdice)
+- Add breaking change workflow trigger ([#6130](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuml/pull/6130)) [@AyodeAwe](https://github.com/AyodeAwe)
+- Switch to native traceback in `cuml` ([#6078](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuml/pull/6078)) [@galipremsagar](https://github.com/galipremsagar)
+
 # cuml 24.12.00 (11 Dec 2024)
 
 ## 🚨 Breaking Changes
diff --git a/cpp/src/umap/fuzzy_simpl_set/naive.cuh b/cpp/src/umap/fuzzy_simpl_set/naive.cuh
index 41e54f1f63..6513de468f 100644
--- a/cpp/src/umap/fuzzy_simpl_set/naive.cuh
+++ b/cpp/src/umap/fuzzy_simpl_set/naive.cuh
@@ -313,13 +313,13 @@ void launcher(int n,
 
   raft::sparse::COO<value_t> in(stream, n * n_neighbors, n, n);
 
+  CUML_LOG_DEBUG("Smooth kNN Distances");
   // check for logging in order to avoid the potentially costly `arr2Str` call!
-  if (ML::default_logger().should_log(ML::level_enum::debug)) {
-    CUML_LOG_DEBUG("Smooth kNN Distances");
+  if (ML::default_logger().should_log(ML::level_enum::trace)) {
     auto str = raft::arr2Str(sigmas.data(), 25, "sigmas", stream);
-    CUML_LOG_DEBUG("%s", str.c_str());
+    CUML_LOG_TRACE("%s", str.c_str());
     str = raft::arr2Str(rhos.data(), 25, "rhos", stream);
-    CUML_LOG_DEBUG("%s", str.c_str());
+    CUML_LOG_TRACE("%s", str.c_str());
   }
 
   RAFT_CUDA_TRY(cudaPeekAtLastError());
@@ -342,11 +342,11 @@ void launcher(int n,
                                                                               n_neighbors);
   RAFT_CUDA_TRY(cudaPeekAtLastError());
 
-  if (ML::default_logger().should_log(ML::level_enum::debug)) {
-    CUML_LOG_DEBUG("Compute Membership Strength");
+  CUML_LOG_DEBUG("Compute Membership Strength");
+  if (ML::default_logger().should_log(ML::level_enum::trace)) {
     std::stringstream ss;
     ss << in;
-    CUML_LOG_DEBUG(ss.str().c_str());
+    CUML_LOG_TRACE(ss.str().c_str());
   }
 
   /**
diff --git a/cpp/src/umap/simpl_set_embed/algo.cuh b/cpp/src/umap/simpl_set_embed/algo.cuh
index 6be8b0235b..912b42bf77 100644
--- a/cpp/src/umap/simpl_set_embed/algo.cuh
+++ b/cpp/src/umap/simpl_set_embed/algo.cuh
@@ -341,10 +341,10 @@ void launcher(
 
   make_epochs_per_sample(out.vals(), out.nnz, n_epochs, epochs_per_sample.data(), stream);
 
-  if (ML::default_logger().should_log(ML::level_enum::debug)) {
+  if (ML::default_logger().should_log(ML::level_enum::trace)) {
     std::stringstream ss;
     ss << raft::arr2Str(epochs_per_sample.data(), out.nnz, "epochs_per_sample", stream);
-    CUML_LOG_DEBUG(ss.str().c_str());
+    CUML_LOG_TRACE(ss.str().c_str());
   }
 
   optimize_layout<TPB_X, T>(embedding,
diff --git a/cpp/src/umap/supervised.cuh b/cpp/src/umap/supervised.cuh
index 1a9739f280..1b75ba3beb 100644
--- a/cpp/src/umap/supervised.cuh
+++ b/cpp/src/umap/supervised.cuh
@@ -301,15 +301,15 @@ void perform_general_intersection(const raft::handle_t& handle,
     handle, y_inputs, y_inputs, knn_graph, params->target_n_neighbors, params, stream);
   RAFT_CUDA_TRY(cudaPeekAtLastError());
 
-  if (ML::default_logger().should_log(ML::level_enum::debug)) {
-    CUML_LOG_DEBUG("Target kNN Graph");
+  CUML_LOG_DEBUG("Target kNN Graph");
+  if (ML::default_logger().should_log(ML::level_enum::trace)) {
     std::stringstream ss1, ss2;
     ss1 << raft::arr2Str(
       y_knn_indices.data(), rgraph_coo->n_rows * params->target_n_neighbors, "knn_indices", stream);
-    CUML_LOG_DEBUG("%s", ss1.str().c_str());
+    CUML_LOG_TRACE("%s", ss1.str().c_str());
     ss2 << raft::arr2Str(
       y_knn_dists.data(), rgraph_coo->n_rows * params->target_n_neighbors, "knn_dists", stream);
-    CUML_LOG_DEBUG("%s", ss2.str().c_str());
+    CUML_LOG_TRACE("%s", ss2.str().c_str());
   }
 
   /**