update build recipes to conduit 0.9.7

.github/workflows/ascent_cuda.yaml

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ jobs:
       matrix:
         include:
           - name: cuda 12.8.1
-            container: alpinedav/ascent-devel:ubuntu-22.04-cuda-12.8.1-x86_64-tpls_2026-08-04-sha50fcd3
+            container: alpinedav/ascent-devel:ubuntu-22.04-cuda-12.8.1-x86_64-tpls_2026-08-08-sha91a906
             env:
               cc: gcc
               cxx: g++
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ jobs:
               enable_examples: OFF
               enable_utils: OFF
           - name: cuda 11.8.0
-            container: alpinedav/ascent-devel:ubuntu-22.04-cuda-11.8.0-x86_64-tpls_2026-08-03-sha50fcd3
+            container: alpinedav/ascent-devel:ubuntu-22.04-cuda-11.8.0-x86_64-tpls_2026-08-09-sha91a906
             env:
               cc: gcc
               cxx: g++

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ and this project aspires to adhere to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/s
 ## Unreleased
 ### Preferred dependency versions for ascent@develop
 - cmake@3.23 or newer
-- conduit@0.9.5
+- conduit@0.9.7
 - viskores@1.1.1
 - raja@v2025.09.0
 - umpire@v2025.09.0

azure-pipelines.yml

@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
 ########################
 
 variables:
-  ubuntu_22_04_tag: alpinedav/ascent-devel:ubuntu-22.04-x86_64-tpls_2026-08-04-sha50fcd3
-  ubuntu_22_04_rocm_6_3_4_tag:  alpinedav/ascent-devel:ubuntu-22.04-rocm-6.3.4-x86_64-build-ascent-tpls_2026-08-04-sha50fcd3
-  ubuntu_22_04_rocm_7_2_4_tag:  alpinedav/ascent-devel:ubuntu-22.04-rocm-7.2.4-x86_64-build-ascent-tpls_2026-08-04-sha50fcd3
-
+  ubuntu_22_04_tag: alpinedav/ascent-devel:ubuntu-22.04-x86_64-tpls_2026-08-09-sha91a906
+  ubuntu_22_04_rocm_6_3_4_tag:  alpinedav/ascent-devel:ubuntu-22.04-rocm-6.3.4-x86_64-build-ascent-tpls_2026-08-09-sha91a906
+  ubuntu_22_04_rocm_7_2_4_tag:  alpinedav/ascent-devel:ubuntu-22.04-rocm-7.2.4-x86_64-build-ascent-tpls_2026-08-09-sha91a906
+ 
 # only build merge target pr to develop
 trigger: none
 pr:

scripts/build_ascent/build_ascent.sh

@@ -513,7 +513,7 @@ fi # build_zfp
 ################
 # Conduit
 ################
-conduit_version=v0.9.5
+conduit_version=v0.9.7
 conduit_src_dir=$(ospath ${source_dir}/conduit-${conduit_version})
 conduit_build_dir=$(ospath ${build_dir}/conduit-${conduit_version}/)
 conduit_install_dir=$(ospath ${install_dir}/conduit-${conduit_version}/)
@@ -530,8 +530,8 @@ if [ ! -d ${conduit_src_dir} ]; then
   echo "**** Extracting ${conduit_tarball}"
   # untar and avoid symlinks (which windows despises)
   tar ${tar_extra_args} -xzf ${conduit_tarball} -C ${source_dir} \
-      --exclude="conduit-${conduit_version}/src/tests/relay/data/silo/*"
-
+      --exclude="conduit-${conduit_version}/src/tests/relay/data/silo/*" \
+      --exclude="conduit-${conduit_version}/AGENTS.md"
 fi
 
 #

scripts/uberenv_configs/packages/conduit/package.py

@@ -39,13 +39,15 @@ class Conduit(CMakePackage):
     git = "https://github.com/LLNL/conduit.git"
     tags = ["radiuss", "e4s"]
 
-    license("Apache-2.0")
+    license("BSD-3-Clause")
 
     version("develop", branch="develop", submodules=True)
     # note: the main branch in conduit was renamed to develop, this next entry
     # is to bridge any spack dependencies that are still using the name master
     version("master", branch="develop", submodules=True)
     # note: 2021-05-05 latest tagged release is now preferred instead of develop
+    version("0.9.7", sha256="e207016e453dd360b2d9a5a1245e53a9aa26ed83fdfb02cc08fc7bfed664f923")
+    version("0.9.6", sha256="370780082f095ebcb5c43067b650c78325088df726488dc5c6d414e7037c847d")
     version("0.9.5", sha256="d93294efbf0936da5a27941e13486aa1a04a74a59285786a2303eed19a24265a")
     version("0.9.4", sha256="c9edfb2ff09890084313ad9c2d83bfb7c10e70b696980762d1ae1488f9f08e6c")
     version("0.9.2", sha256="45d5a4eccd0fc978d153d29c440c53c483b8f29dfcf78ddcc9aa15c59b257177")

src/libs/ascent/CMakeLists.txt

@@ -281,14 +281,12 @@ if(VISKORES_FOUND)
         runtimes/ascent_data_object.cpp
         runtimes/ascent_vtkh_data_adapter.cpp
         runtimes/ascent_vtkh_collection.cpp
-        runtimes/flow_filters/ascent_runtime_vtkh_filters.cpp
         runtimes/flow_filters/ascent_runtime_vtkh_utils.cpp
         runtimes/flow_filters/ascent_runtime_rendering_filters.cpp
         runtimes/flow_filters/ascent_runtime_rover_filters.cpp
         runtimes/flow_filters/ascent_runtime_conduit_to_viskores_parsing.cpp
-        runtimes/flow_filters/ascent_runtime_gltf_extract.cpp
         runtimes/flow_filters/ascent_runtime_filters.cpp
-        runtimes/ascent_main_runtime.cpp)
+        )
 
     list(APPEND ascent_headers ${ascent_vtkh_dep_headers})
     list(APPEND ascent_sources ${ascent_vtkh_dep_sources})
@@ -299,6 +297,12 @@ if(VISKORES_FOUND)
 
     # also make sure that these are in ascent's device source list
     list(APPEND ascent_device_sources ${ascent_viskores_device_sources})
+
+    # these are not device sources, they also use fmt which makes nvcc unhappy as of fmt 12
+    list(APPEND ascent_sources
+                runtimes/flow_filters/ascent_runtime_vtkh_filters.cpp
+                runtimes/flow_filters/ascent_runtime_gltf_extract.cpp
+                runtimes/ascent_main_runtime.cpp)
 endif()