Merge pull request rapidsai#21772 from rapidsai/release/26.04

Forward-merge release/26.04 into main

Author: GPUtester

.pre-commit-config.yaml

@@ -272,7 +272,9 @@ repos:
             (^|/)pom[.]xml$|
             ^[.]pre-commit-config[.]yaml$|
             ^conda/environments/|
+            RAPIDS_BRANCH$|
             [.](md|rst|avro|parquet|png|orc|gz|pkl|sas7bdat)$|
+            ^python/cudf/cudf/tests|
             ^python/cudf/cudf/VERSION$
       - id: verify-pyproject-license
         # ignore the top-level pyproject.toml, which doesn't