diff --git a/conda/recipes/cudf/build.sh b/conda/recipes/cudf/build.sh
deleted file mode 100644
index 43d046402c7..00000000000
--- a/conda/recipes/cudf/build.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright (c) 2018-2022, NVIDIA CORPORATION.
-
-# This assumes the script is executed from the root of the repo directory
-./build.sh cudf
diff --git a/conda/recipes/cudf/meta.yaml b/conda/recipes/cudf/meta.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index f817bc12c5b..00000000000
--- a/conda/recipes/cudf/meta.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,119 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright (c) 2018-2025, NVIDIA CORPORATION.
-
-{% set version = environ['RAPIDS_PACKAGE_VERSION'].lstrip('v') %}
-{% set minor_version = version.split('.')[0] + '.' + version.split('.')[1] %}
-{% set py_version = environ['CONDA_PY'] %}
-{% set cuda_version = '.'.join(environ['RAPIDS_CUDA_VERSION'].split('.')[:2]) %}
-{% set cuda_major = cuda_version.split('.')[0] %}
-{% set date_string = environ['RAPIDS_DATE_STRING'] %}
-
-package:
-  name: cudf
-  version: {{ version }}
-
-source:
-  path: ../../..
-
-build:
-  number: {{ GIT_DESCRIBE_NUMBER }}
-  string: cuda{{ cuda_major }}_py{{ py_version }}_{{ date_string }}_{{ GIT_DESCRIBE_HASH }}_{{ GIT_DESCRIBE_NUMBER }}
-  script_env:
-    - AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
-    - AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
-    - AWS_SESSION_TOKEN
-    - CMAKE_C_COMPILER_LAUNCHER
-    - CMAKE_CUDA_COMPILER_LAUNCHER
-    - CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_LAUNCHER
-    - CMAKE_GENERATOR
-    - PARALLEL_LEVEL
-    - SCCACHE_BUCKET
-    - SCCACHE_IDLE_TIMEOUT
-    - SCCACHE_REGION
-    - SCCACHE_S3_KEY_PREFIX=cudf-aarch64 # [aarch64]
-    - SCCACHE_S3_KEY_PREFIX=cudf-linux64 # [linux64]
-    - SCCACHE_S3_USE_SSL
-    - SCCACHE_S3_NO_CREDENTIALS
-  ignore_run_exports_from:
-    - {{ compiler('cuda') }}
-    {% if cuda_major != "11" %}
-    - cuda-cudart-dev
-    - libcufile-dev  # [linux64]
-    {% endif %}
-
-requirements:
-  build:
-    - cmake {{ cmake_version }}
-    - ninja
-    - {{ compiler('c') }}
-    - {{ compiler('cxx') }}
-    {% if cuda_major == "11" %}
-    - {{ compiler('cuda') }} ={{ cuda_version }}
-    {% else %}
-    - {{ compiler('cuda') }}
-    {% endif %}
-    - cuda-version ={{ cuda_version }}
-    - {{ stdlib("c") }}
-  host:
-    - python
-    - cython >=3.0.3
-    - rapids-build-backend >=0.3.0,<0.4.0.dev0
-    - scikit-build-core >=0.10.0
-    - dlpack >=0.8,<1.0
-    - libcudf ={{ version }}
-    - pylibcudf ={{ version }}
-    - rmm ={{ minor_version }}
-    {% if cuda_major == "11" %}
-    - cudatoolkit
-    {% else %}
-    - cuda-cudart-dev
-    - cuda-nvrtc
-    - libcufile-dev  # [linux64]
-    {% endif %}
-    - cuda-version ={{ cuda_version }}
-  run:
-    - python
-    - typing_extensions >=4.0.0
-    - pandas >=2.0,<2.2.4dev0
-    - cupy >=12.0.0
-    - numba-cuda >=0.2.0,<0.3.0a0
-    - numba >=0.59.1,<0.61.0a0
-    - numpy >=1.23,<3.0a0
-    - pyarrow>=14.0.0,<20.0.0a0
-    - libcudf ={{ version }}
-    - pylibcudf ={{ version }}
-    - {{ pin_compatible('rmm', max_pin='x.x') }}
-    - fsspec >=0.6.0
-    {% if cuda_major == "11" %}
-    - cudatoolkit
-    - ptxcompiler >=0.7.0
-    - cubinlinker  # CUDA enhanced compatibility.
-    - cuda-python >=11.8.5,<12.0a0
-    {% else %}
-    - cuda-cudart
-    - libcufile  # [linux64]
-    # Needed by Numba for CUDA support
-    - cuda-nvcc-impl
-    # TODO: Add nvjitlink here
-    # xref: https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/issues/12822
-    - cuda-nvrtc
-    - cuda-python >=12.6.2,<13.0a0
-    - pynvjitlink
-    {% endif %}
-    - {{ pin_compatible('cuda-version', max_pin='x', min_pin='x') }}
-    - nvtx >=0.2.1
-    - packaging
-    - cachetools
-    - rich
-
-test:
-  requires:
-    - cuda-version ={{ cuda_version }}
-  imports:
-    - cudf
-
-about:
-  home: https://rapids.ai/
-  license: Apache-2.0
-  license_family: APACHE
-  license_file: LICENSE
-  summary: cuDF GPU DataFrame core library
diff --git a/conda/recipes/cudf/recipe.yaml b/conda/recipes/cudf/recipe.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..39ac07fbb38
--- /dev/null
+++ b/conda/recipes/cudf/recipe.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,124 @@
+# yaml-language-server: $schema=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/prefix-dev/recipe-format/main/schema.json
+# Copyright (c) 2018-2025, NVIDIA CORPORATION.
+schema_version: 1
+
+context:
+  version: ${{ env.get("RAPIDS_PACKAGE_VERSION") }}
+  minor_version: ${{ (version | split('.'))[:2] | join('.') }}
+  cuda_version: ${{ (env.get('RAPIDS_CUDA_VERSION') | split('.'))[:2] | join(".") }}
+  cuda_major: ${{ (env.get('RAPIDS_CUDA_VERSION') | split('.'))[0] }}
+  date_string: ${{ env.get("RAPIDS_DATE_STRING") }}
+  head_rev: ${{ git.head_rev(".")[:8] }}
+
+package:
+  name: cudf
+  version: ${{ version }}
+
+source:
+  path: ../../..
+
+build:
+  string: cuda${{ cuda_major }}_py${{ py_version }}_${{ date_string }}_${{ head_rev }}
+  script:
+    content:
+      - ./build.sh cudf
+    secrets:
+      - AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
+      - AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
+      - AWS_SESSION_TOKEN
+    env:
+      CMAKE_C_COMPILER_LAUNCHER: ${{ env.get("CMAKE_C_COMPILER_LAUNCHER") }}
+      CMAKE_CUDA_COMPILER_LAUNCHER: ${{ env.get("CMAKE_CUDA_COMPILER_LAUNCHER") }}
+      CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_LAUNCHER: ${{ env.get("CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_LAUNCHER") }}
+      CMAKE_GENERATOR: ${{ env.get("CMAKE_GENERATOR") }}
+      SCCACHE_BUCKET: ${{ env.get("SCCACHE_BUCKET") }}
+      SCCACHE_IDLE_TIMEOUT: ${{ env.get("SCCACHE_IDLE_TIMEOUT") }}
+      SCCACHE_REGION: ${{ env.get("SCCACHE_REGION") }}
+      SCCACHE_S3_USE_SSL: ${{ env.get("SCCACHE_S3_USE_SSL") }}
+      SCCACHE_S3_NO_CREDENTIALS: ${{ env.get("SCCACHE_S3_NO_CREDENTIALS") }}
+      SCCACHE_S3_KEY_PREFIX: cudf-${{ env.get("RAPIDS_CONDA_ARCH") }}
+
+requirements:
+  build:
+    - cmake ${{ cmake_version }}
+    - ninja
+    - ${{ compiler("c") }}
+    - ${{ compiler("cxx") }}
+    - ${{ compiler("cuda") }}
+    - cuda-version =${{ cuda_version }}
+    - ${{ stdlib("c") }}
+  host:
+    - python
+    - cython >=3.0.3
+    - rapids-build-backend >=0.3.0,<0.4.0.dev0
+    - scikit-build-core >=0.10.0
+    - dlpack >=0.8,<1.0
+    - libcudf =${{ version }}
+    - pylibcudf =${{ version }}
+    - rmm =${{ minor_version }}
+    - if: cuda_major == "11"
+      then:
+        - cudatoolkit
+      else:
+        - cuda-cudart-dev
+        - cuda-nvrtc
+        - if: linux64
+          then:
+            - libcufile-dev
+    - cuda-version =${{ cuda_version }}
+  run:
+    - python
+    - typing_extensions >=4.0.0
+    - pandas >=2.0,<2.2.4dev0
+    - cupy >=12.0.0
+    - numba-cuda >=0.2.0,<0.3.0a0
+    - numba >=0.59.1,<0.61.0a0
+    - numpy >=1.23,<3.0a0
+    - pyarrow>=14.0.0,<20.0.0a0
+    - libcudf =${{ version }}
+    - pylibcudf =${{ version }}
+    - ${{ pin_compatible('rmm', upper_bound='x.x') }}
+    - fsspec >=0.6.0
+    - if:  cuda_major == "11"
+      then:
+        - cudatoolkit
+        - ptxcompiler >=0.7.0
+        - cubinlinker  # CUDA enhanced compatibility.
+        - cuda-python >=11.8.5,<12.0a0
+      else:
+        - cuda-cudart
+        # Needed by Numba for CUDA support
+        - cuda-nvcc-impl
+        # TODO: Add nvjitlink here
+        # xref: https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/issues/12822
+        - cuda-nvrtc
+        - cuda-python >=12.6.2,<13.0a0
+        - pynvjitlink
+        - if: linux64
+          then:
+            - libcufile
+    - ${{ pin_compatible('cuda-version', upper_bound='x', lower_bound='x') }}
+    - nvtx >=0.2.1
+    - packaging
+    - cachetools
+    - rich
+
+  ignore_run_exports:
+    from_package:
+      - if: cuda_major != "11"
+        then:
+          - cuda-cudart-dev
+          - if: linux64
+            then: libcufile-dev
+
+
+tests:
+  - python:
+      imports:
+        - cudf
+      pip_check: false
+
+about:
+  homepage: ${{ load_from_file("python/cudf/pyproject.toml").project.urls.Homepage }}
+  license: ${{ load_from_file("python/cudf/pyproject.toml").project.license.text }}
+  summary: ${{ load_from_file("python/cudf/pyproject.toml").project.description }}
diff --git a/python/cudf/pyproject.toml b/python/cudf/pyproject.toml
index d716114cf7e..95ad77eff4d 100644
--- a/python/cudf/pyproject.toml
+++ b/python/cudf/pyproject.toml
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ readme = { file = "README.md", content-type = "text/markdown" }
 authors = [
     { name = "NVIDIA Corporation" },
 ]
-license = { text = "Apache 2.0" }
+license = { text = "Apache-2.0" }
 requires-python = ">=3.10"
 dependencies = [
     "cachetools",