# CUDA 11+ Minor Version Compatibility — Software interface version compatibility

For CUDA 11+ Minor Version Compatibility, product is CUDA; software version is CUDA 11+; dependency version is same major CUDA release, sufficiently new driver, recorded from its source on 2026-08-04.

- **Product:** CUDA
- **Version pairing:** CUDA 11+ Minor Version Compatibility _(unconfirmed — we could not tie this to the quote below)_
- **Software version:** CUDA 11+ _(unconfirmed — we could not tie this to the quote below)_
- **Dependency version:** same major CUDA release, sufficiently new driver _(unconfirmed — we could not tie this to the quote below)_

## What the source says

> Minor Version Compatibility , available starting with CUDA 11, which allows applications built within the same major CUDA release family to run on a sufficiently new driver

## Source

- https://docs.nvidia.com/deploy/cuda-compatibility/latest/

Last verified: 2026-08-04. Review by: 2026-10-03.
Part of [Software interface version compatibility](https://referencesource.org/software-interface-version-compatibility/).