Merge branch 'master' into feature/specialization-constants

Author: ndgrigorian

.github/workflows/conda-package.yml

@@ -561,8 +561,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Install example requirements
         shell: bash -ex -l {0}
         env:
-          # TODO: unpin when 2026.0 is available on conda-forge
-          DPCPP_CMPLR: "dpcpp_linux-64>=2025.0,<2026.0"
+          DPCPP_CMPLR: "dpcpp_linux-64>=2026.0"
         run: |
           export CHANNELS="${{ env.CHANNELS }}"
           . "$CONDA/etc/profile.d/conda.sh"

.github/workflows/pre-commit.yml

@@ -15,7 +15,10 @@ jobs:
     timeout-minutes: 30
 
     steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd # v6.0.2
+    - name: Checkout dpctl
+      uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd # v6.0.2
+      with:
+        ref: ${{ github.sha }}  # use hash to pass no-commit-to-branch check
     - uses: actions/setup-python@a309ff8b426b58ec0e2a45f0f869d46889d02405 # v6.2.0
       with:
         python-version: '3.14'