NVIDIA AI Enterprise Production Branch October 2025 (PB25h2)

Overview of Production Branch - October 2025

Production Branches, exclusively available with NVIDIA AI Enterprise, are designed to provide stability and security for applications built on NVIDIA AI, offering 9 months of support, API stability, and monthly fixes for high and critical software vulnerabilities. The production branches provide a stable and secure environment to maintain uptime of mission-critical AI applications.

Production Branch - October 2025 Includes:

• CUDA Deep Learning PB25h2
• Holoscan SDK PB25h2
• Multi-LLM PB25h2
• PyTorch PB25h2
• TAO PB25h2
• TensorRT PB25h2
• Triton PB25h2

NVIDIA NIM Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct, Llama-3.1-BB-Instruct, NeMo Retriever, SPARK Rapids, and Deepstream will join Production Branch - October 2025 at a later date.

Government Ready Images

Certain x86 container images within this Production Branch October 2025 (PB 25h2) collection are specifically hardened to meet the stringent security requirements of highly regulated industries, including government and sovereign environments (e.g., FedRAMP High and equivalent sovereign environments).

How to Identify a Government Ready Image:

To use this specific hardened image, navigate to the repository's Tags tab and look for the purple label indicating Gov ready displayed alongside the tag.

What "Gov ready" means:

This ensures the highest level of security for regulated environments, the x86 container image for this branch is:

• STIG Ubuntu 24.04 hardened

• Supports FIPS 140-2 / 3 validated crypto / uses libraries that support FIPS crypto

Learn more about NVIDIA's hardened image in the AI Software for Regulated Environments White Paper.

Compatible Infrastructure Software Versions

For the optimized performance, it is highly recommended to deploy the supported NVIDIA AI Enterprise Infrastructure software in conjunction with your AI software.

Production Branch - October 2025 (25h2) is compatible with NVIDIA AI Enterprise Infrastructure 7.

Getting Started with Production Branches

Before you start, ensure that your environment is set up by following one of the deployment guides available in the NVIDIA AI Enterprise Documentation and review the Production Branch release notes.

Other NVIDIA AI Enterprise Software Branches

In addition to Production Branches, NVIDIA AI Enterprise offers two other distinct branches of AI software, each providing different levels of support and use cases:

Feature Branches (FB): The software branches include the latest versions of NVIDIA AI frameworks, pretrained models, and SDKs that release every month.

Long-Term Support Branches (LTSB): The software branches include selected AI frameworks and SDKs and provide a 30-month lifecycle with API stability and 12 quarterly patches for high and critical software vulnerabilities.

Learn more in the NVIDIA AI Enterprise Release Branches Documentation.

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