From 9627cb82ad8be058c517ef80b0c5a4dcd433895c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marcin Zalewski <marcin.zalewski@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2024 22:34:56 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] 24.11.01 release

---
 README.md                   |  1 +
 conda/conda-build/meta.yaml |  2 +-
 cupynumeric/_array/array.py | 11 +++++++++++
 3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 9451246025..edf299c245 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ limitations under the License.
 
 -->
 
+
 # cuPyNumeric
 
 cuPyNumeric is a [Legate](https://github.com/nv-legate/legate.core) library
diff --git a/conda/conda-build/meta.yaml b/conda/conda-build/meta.yaml
index 2aaddb22b1..a649aeaea5 100644
--- a/conda/conda-build/meta.yaml
+++ b/conda/conda-build/meta.yaml
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
     {% set legate_version = (version.rsplit('.',1)[0] ~ ".dev" ~ "|>=" ~ version.rsplit('.',1)[0]) %}
 {% else %}
     {% set version = environ.get('GIT_DESCRIBE_TAG', placeholder_version).lstrip('v') %}
-    {% set legate_version = version %}
+    {% set legate_version = "24.11.00" %}
 {% endif %}
 
 package:
diff --git a/cupynumeric/_array/array.py b/cupynumeric/_array/array.py
index 1787affe62..388147185f 100644
--- a/cupynumeric/_array/array.py
+++ b/cupynumeric/_array/array.py
@@ -313,6 +313,17 @@ def data(self) -> memoryview:
         """
         return self.__array__().data
 
+    def __buffer__(self, flags: int, /) -> memoryview:
+        """
+        Python buffer object pointing to the start of the array's data.
+
+        Notes
+        -----
+        This causes the entire (potentially distributed) array to be collected
+        into one memory.
+        """
+        return self.__array__().__buffer__(flags)  # type: ignore
+
     @property
     def dtype(self) -> np.dtype[Any]:
         """