diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 264cef755..faa934484 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,30 @@
+# cuspatial 24.08.00 (7 Aug 2024)
+
+## 🐛 Bug Fixes
+
+- Unskip taxi notebook from CI ([#1422](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuspatial/pull/1422)) [@harrism](https://github.com/harrism)
+- Use CuPy array in `pip_bitmap_column_to_binary_array` ([#1418](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuspatial/pull/1418)) [@isVoid](https://github.com/isVoid)
+- Conda: Move `cmake` to `requirements/build` ([#1409](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuspatial/pull/1409)) [@jakirkham](https://github.com/jakirkham)
+- test notebooks in 'docs/', make cuspatial_api_examples self-contained, skip long-running notebook, fix some docs ([#1407](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuspatial/pull/1407)) [@jameslamb](https://github.com/jameslamb)
+- Fix geopandas upgrades ([#1404](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuspatial/pull/1404)) [@quasiben](https://github.com/quasiben)
+- Fix multipolygon geometry iterator. ([#1402](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuspatial/pull/1402)) [@bdice](https://github.com/bdice)
+- Change _GeoSeriesUtility._from_data(index=) default to None ([#1400](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuspatial/pull/1400)) [@mroeschke](https://github.com/mroeschke)
+- Fix test_intersections.py post cudf refactor ([#1398](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuspatial/pull/1398)) [@mroeschke](https://github.com/mroeschke)
+- Allow anonymous user in devcontainer name ([#1396](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuspatial/pull/1396)) [@bdice](https://github.com/bdice)
+
+## 🛠️ Improvements
+
+- Ensure _from_data accepts columns objects only ([#1415](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuspatial/pull/1415)) [@mroeschke](https://github.com/mroeschke)
+- split up CUDA-suffixed dependencies in dependencies.yaml ([#1414](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuspatial/pull/1414)) [@jameslamb](https://github.com/jameslamb)
+- Build and test with CUDA 12.5.1 ([#1405](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuspatial/pull/1405)) [@KyleFromNVIDIA](https://github.com/KyleFromNVIDIA)
+- skip CMake 3.30.0 ([#1401](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuspatial/pull/1401)) [@jameslamb](https://github.com/jameslamb)
+- Use verify-alpha-spec hook ([#1399](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuspatial/pull/1399)) [@KyleFromNVIDIA](https://github.com/KyleFromNVIDIA)
+- Adopt CI/packaging codeowners ([#1397](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuspatial/pull/1397)) [@bdice](https://github.com/bdice)
+- Remove text builds of documentation ([#1394](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuspatial/pull/1394)) [@vyasr](https://github.com/vyasr)
+- use rapids-build-backend ([#1393](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuspatial/pull/1393)) [@jameslamb](https://github.com/jameslamb)
+- Fix forward-merge `branch-24.06` into `branch-24.08` ([#1390](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuspatial/pull/1390)) [@trxcllnt](https://github.com/trxcllnt)
+- remove unnecessary 'setuptools' dependencies ([#1389](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuspatial/pull/1389)) [@jameslamb](https://github.com/jameslamb)
+
 # cuspatial 24.06.00 (5 Jun 2024)
 
 ## 🚨 Breaking Changes
diff --git a/python/cuspatial/cuspatial/core/geodataframe.py b/python/cuspatial/cuspatial/core/geodataframe.py
index 90dcaf24e..79d2de665 100644
--- a/python/cuspatial/cuspatial/core/geodataframe.py
+++ b/python/cuspatial/cuspatial/core/geodataframe.py
@@ -161,18 +161,25 @@ def _split_out_geometry_columns(
 
     def _recombine_columns(
         self, geo_columns: GeoDataFrame, data_columns: cudf.DataFrame
-    ) -> dict[Any, GeoSeries | cudf.Series]:
+    ) -> dict[Any, GeoColumn | cudf.core.column.ColumnBase]:
         """
         Combine a GeoDataFrame of only geometry columns with a DataFrame
         of non-geometry columns in the same order as the columns in `self`
+
+        The output is meant for GeoDataFrame._from_data.
         """
+        if not geo_columns.index.equals(data_columns.index):
+            raise ValueError("geo_columns.index must equal data_columns.index")
+
         columns_mask = self.columns
-        geocolumn_mask = (
-            isinstance(self[col], GeoSeries) for col in columns_mask
-        )
+        col_is_geo = (isinstance(self[col], GeoSeries) for col in columns_mask)
         return {
-            name: (geo_columns[name] if mask else data_columns[name])
-            for name, mask in zip(columns_mask, geocolumn_mask)
+            name: (
+                geo_columns[name]._column
+                if is_geo
+                else data_columns[name]._column
+            )
+            for name, is_geo in zip(columns_mask, col_is_geo)
         }
 
     def _slice(self: T, arg: slice) -> T:
@@ -184,10 +191,10 @@ def _slice(self: T, arg: slice) -> T:
             {name: geo_columns[name].iloc[arg] for name in geo_columns.columns}
         )
         sliced_data_columns = data_columns._slice(arg)
-        result = self._recombine_columns(
-            sliced_geo_columns, sliced_data_columns
+        return self._from_data(
+            self._recombine_columns(sliced_geo_columns, sliced_data_columns),
+            index=sliced_data_columns.index,
         )
-        return self.__class__(result)
 
     def _apply_boolean_mask(self, mask: BooleanMask, keep_index=True) -> T:
         geo_columns, data_columns = self._split_out_geometry_columns()
@@ -197,7 +204,7 @@ def _apply_boolean_mask(self, mask: BooleanMask, keep_index=True) -> T:
             {name: geo_columns[name][mask.column] for name in geo_columns}
         )
 
-        res = self.__class__(self._recombine_columns(geo, data))
+        res = self._from_data(self._recombine_columns(geo, data))
         if keep_index:
             res.index = data.index
         return res
@@ -215,14 +222,14 @@ def _gather(self, gather_map: GatherMap, keep_index=True):
             for geo in geo_data.keys()
         }
         geo_gathered = GeoDataFrame(gathered)
+        # _gather may have discarded the index, so re-add
+        cudf_gathered.index = geo_gathered.index
 
         # combine
-        result = GeoDataFrame(
-            self._recombine_columns(geo_gathered, cudf_gathered)
+        return GeoDataFrame._from_data(
+            self._recombine_columns(geo_gathered, cudf_gathered),
+            index=geo_gathered.index,
         )
-        result.index = geo_gathered.index
-        # return
-        return result
 
     def reset_index(
         self, level=None, drop=False, inplace=False, col_level=0, col_fill=""
@@ -270,7 +277,7 @@ def reset_index(
         if not drop:
             if not isinstance(cudf_data.index, cudf.MultiIndex):
                 recombiner.insert(
-                    loc=0, name="index", value=cudf_reindexed["index"]
+                    loc=0, column="index", value=cudf_reindexed["index"]
                 )
             # If the index is a MultiIndex, we need to insert the
             # individual levels into the GeoDataFrame.
@@ -288,7 +295,7 @@ def reset_index(
                 for n, name in enumerate(levels):
                     recombiner.insert(
                         loc=n,
-                        name=name,
+                        column=name,
                         value=cudf_reindexed[name].reset_index(drop=True),
                     )
                 recombiner.index = cudf_reindexed.index
@@ -301,11 +308,10 @@ def reset_index(
             # Reset the index of the GeoDataFrame to match the
             # cudf DataFrame and recombine.
             geo_data.index = cudf_reindexed.index
-            result = GeoDataFrame(
-                recombiner._recombine_columns(geo_data, cudf_reindexed)
+            return GeoDataFrame._from_data(
+                recombiner._recombine_columns(geo_data, cudf_reindexed),
+                index=cudf_reindexed.index,
             )
-            result.index = geo_data.index
-            return result
 
 
 class _GeoSeriesUtility: