Ensure streams are passed into pylibcudf calls in cudf_polars

[mroeschke]

Description

closes #21642
closes #21467

In particular, the missing streams from the sort calls in Sort and SortBy expressions is probably why prior PRs attempting to close probably failed

Checklist

• I am familiar with the Contributing Guidelines.
• New or existing tests cover these changes.
• The documentation is up to date with these changes.

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📝 Summary

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• Bug Fixes
  • Improved streaming execution consistency for grouped window operations, including ranking, null handling, cumulative calculations, and aggregations.
  • Improved streaming support for sorting and value-count operations.
  • Improved reliability of grouped results and join comparisons across execution modes.
• Tests
  • Expanded validation for grouped and joined results across key types and execution modes.
• Chores
  • Updated build and test environments to the 26.12 release series.
  • Refreshed Java artifact examples to reflect the 26.12 release series.

Walkthrough

The changes propagate df.stream through grouped rolling, sorting, and aggregation operations. Tests now validate grouped-key ordering and non-coalescing joins directly. CI images and Java CI examples move from 26.10 to 26.12.

Changes

Streaming execution support

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Propagate execution streams python/cudf_polars/cudf_polars/dsl/expressions/rolling.py, python/cudf_polars/cudf_polars/dsl/expressions/sorting.py, python/cudf_polars/cudf_polars/dsl/expressions/unary.py	Rolling scans, null replacement, sorting paths, grouped aggregation, and value_counts now receive df.stream.
Validate streaming runtime behavior python/cudf_polars/tests/test_groupby.py, python/cudf_polars/tests/test_join.py	Grouped results are sorted before comparison, and streaming-specific expected-failure handling is removed from grouped-key and non-coalescing join tests.

CI image refresh

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Update CI container images .github/workflows/build.yaml, .github/workflows/pandas-tests.yaml, .github/workflows/pr.yaml, .github/workflows/test.yaml, .github/workflows/wheels-build-stage.yaml	CI jobs now use 26.12 container images while preserving existing job structure and matrix substitutions.
Refresh Java CI examples java/ci/README.md	Java artifact and legacy build examples now use 26.12 snapshot versions.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to cc0dd

This change routes cudf_polars operations through dataframe execution streams and updates CI images to 26.12. Java CI documentation still mixes 26.10 and 26.12 artifact examples, which can mislead users following the documented build workflow; update those references before or shortly after merge.

Suggested reviewers: wence-, msarahan

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 3 | ❌ 2

❌ Failed checks (2 warnings)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Out of Scope Changes check	⚠️ Warning	The workflow image updates and Java README version updates are not related to stream propagation, groupby sorting, or RapidsMPF test compatibility.	Remove the unrelated CI image and README version changes, or provide linked issue context that justifies these release-environment updates.
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 30.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 10 functions across 5 files. (6 skipped: …	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (3 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the primary implementation change: passing streams into pylibcudf calls in cudf_polars.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description directly addresses stream propagation, sort operations, and the two linked cudf issues.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The code propagates df.stream through grouped execution, sorting, and value_counts paths. The test updates remove RapidsMPF-specific expected failures and cover the affected groupby and join paths, ad…

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Explanation

Docstring coverage is 30.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 10 functions across 5 files. (6 skipped: 6 unsupported.)

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[wence-]

Should go to release/26.10

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In `@java/ci/README.md`:
- Around line 47-54: Update the remaining Java CI README examples from version
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