Update dependency catboost to v1.2.8

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This PR contains the following updates:

Package	Change	Age	Confidence
catboost (source)	1.2.7 -> 1.2.8

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Release Notes

catboost/catboost (catboost)

v1.2.8: 1.2.8

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Python package

• Support Python 3.13 #​2748. Thanks to @​jeremy010203.
• Support NumPy 2.x. #​2671
• Drop support for obsolete Python 3.7.
• Use the proper name of the implementation class as a string id when storing values calculated for custom metrics on GPU. #​1792
• Propagate exceptions from custom metrics code on GPU. #​1792

CatBoost for Apache Spark

• Fix workers hanging after training. #​2151. Thanks to @​Shamann.
• Remove support for Spark 2.x

Improvements

• [R-package] Allow targets of character and factor types (useful for classes). #​1874
• Better default leaf_estimation_iterations for Tweedie regression on GPU. #​2812

Build & testing

• Switch to external Cython 3.0.10+ instead of 0.29.x-based version from contrib. #​2810
• Switch to Conan 2.x. #​2582
• [CUDA]. Do not output detailed ptxas statistics by default.
• Used OpenSSL version updated to 3.0.15

Bugfixes

• [JVM applier]. Methods related to evaluator types have been private by mistake.
• [JVM applier]. Categorical features hashing methods have been private by mistake.
• Fix crash when training on a quantized dataset that contains categorical features. #​2816
• Fix prediction of type Probability on CPUs that do not have SSE4 instruction set (that includes all ARM CPUs).
  Values with probability 0 have been erroneously computed as nan.
• Fix race condition when loading sparse datasets.

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