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* Update setup.sh

* Update build-docs.sh

* Update test-windows.ps1

* [ci] [C++] drop support for Visual Studio 2015 (fixes #6803)

* update more references

* [ci] some additional changes to drop VS2015 and make it work from solution file (#7046)

* Update LightGBM.vcxproj

* Update LightGBM.vcxproj.filters

* Update Installation-Guide.rst

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* Add competitions

* Simplify links

* Remove 1st place

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* [docs] update Ray section

* [docs] add Ray to external repositories

* [docs] simplify Ray note

Bumps the ci-dependencies group with 1 update: [actions/checkout](https://github.com/actions/checkout).


Updates `actions/checkout` from 4 to 5
- [Release notes](https://github.com/actions/checkout/releases)
- [Changelog](https://github.com/actions/checkout/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md)
- [Commits](https://github.com/actions/checkout/compare/v4...v5

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* [ci] separate configs and scripts for linting and docs CI

* update name

* remove lint-cpp reference

* Update .ci/lint-all.sh

* Update .ci/lint-all.sh
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* revert env: blocks

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

* Update python-package/lightgbm/engine.py

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* [ci] [c++] use 'pre-commit' to run 'cpplint', upgrade to 'cpplint' 2.0.2

* remove bashisms

* one more pipefail use

* another pipefail

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* [docs] [python-package] document how to run Python tests

* refer to installation instructions

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* [ci] try pinning openjpeg

* pin even more

* only pin graphite2

* try removing all customizations

* restore all CI

* add a 'conda info'

* add a 'conda list' too

* move conda block in test.sh

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

* Fix

* Bump numpy

* Fix

* fix comment, revert unrelated quoting changes

* add docs

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* [ci] combine pip installs in Python test scripts

* remove most CI

* Revert "remove most CI"

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[docs] [ci] skip scikit-learn 1.7.1 in docs build, make tests compatible with pandas 3.0, use new Azure DevOps pool (#6979)

* [ROCm] add support for ROCm/HIP

- CMakeLists.txt ROCm updates, also replace glob with explicit file list
- initial warpSize interop changes
- helpers/hipify.sh script added
- .gitignore to ignore generated hip source files

* more rocm updates

- disable compiler warnings
- move PercentileDevice __device__ template function into header
- bug fixes for __host__ __define__ and __HIP__ preprocessor symbols

* more bug fixes

* warp 32 vs 64 updates

* lint fixes

* missing device_index variable

* accidental inclusion of hip headers

* copyright notice compliance

* Update CMakeLists.txt
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* fix lint issue

* clean up

* Update CMakeLists.txt
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* Update CMakeLists.txt
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* clean up CMakeLists.txt

use WARPSIZE

* use WARPSIZE

* fix share buffer size

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* Add "PT" ruff code to pyproject.toml plus some exceptions

* Extend PT011 for Exception, IndexError, TypeError

* Fix PT001: Use `@pytest.fixture` over `@pytest.fixture()`

* Fix PT011: pytest.raises({exception}) is too broad, set the match parameter or use a more specific exception

* Fix PT012: `pytest.raises()` block should contain a single simple statement

* Fix PT017: Found assertion on exception {name} in except block, use pytest.raises() instead

* Fix PT018: Assertion should be broken down into multiple parts

* Remove PT006 and PT007 from ignore list and fixup

* Use *Exception and *Error glob to apply PT011 and ignore AssertionErrors

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* Update docs.

* that is

* Implement suggestions

* Update python-package/lightgbm/basic.py
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* [ci] stop testing on Windows Server 2019

* update Visual Studio version

* add support for newer MSVC versions

* temporarily skip integrated OpenCL on Windows

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