## NVIDIA-NeMo/Curator — v1.2.0rc1…v1.2.0

_20 commits._

### Features
- **Update FFmpeg and video processing support (#1959)** (8055f35)
- **Remove libopenh&libx264 and Add vp9 (#1930)** (79cacb4)
- **Add ReadSpeech audio curation benchmark (#1851) (#1869)** (9dcdcc1)

### Fixes
- **fix: update motion vector export flag handling in PyAV (#1973)** (f07fa0e)
- **Fix checkpoint crash when ALMManifestWriterStage returns FileGroupTask (#1884) (#1901)** (3457b9d)
- **fix: address lxml cve (#1900)** (35bb96d)
- **fix: Support aarch64 torch install (#1891) (#1894)** (e72e481)
- **Fix Sortformer tutorial issues and add InferenceSortformerStage benchmark (#1764) (#1866)** (04cbe1f)
- **Fix waveform tensor leak in audio pipeline and redesign AudioDataFilterStage for all VAD/Speaker combinations (#1765) (#1862)** (df68290)
- **fix(image): addressing nvbug6075086 (when --images-per-tar exceed --batch-size) (#1828) (#1838)** (b534484)

### Backend
- **Cherry-pick benchmarking PRs #1819 and #1823 into r1.2.0 (#1902)** (d0421d9)
- **Readspeech tutorial: README, tests, and lower audio data filter GPU defaults (#1841) (#1871)** (f10acf1)
- **Improve math tutorial README documentation (#1766) (#1859)** (9e8349c)
- **Enhance VideoReader initialization with path validation (#1845) (#1850)** (4c99c9d)
- **More CVE fixes (#1843) (#1854)** (1817f6b)
- **Update NDD (nemo data-designer) version (#1755) (#1849)** (52d57ce)

### Docs
- **docs: cross-link Nemotron-CC recipe as a production NeMo Curator example (#1767) (#1860)** (1180b1f)
- **docs: add OTEL_SDK_DISABLED workaround for NVBUG 6078008 SIGSEGV (#1842) (#1857)** (9c96e41)

### Chore
- **build(deps): bump notebook from 7.5.1 to 7.5.6 (#1944) (#1968)** (1b4518a)
- **ci: Update runner name (#1958) (#1960)** (8764c17)

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