chore: release 0.68.0

[Hofer-Julian]

[0.68.0] - 2026-07-06

✨ Highlights

This release adds a lot of exciting features and bugfixes. Here a few highlights:

• A lot of R and CRAN improvements
• New, mobile-friendly design for https://playground.rattler.build/
• Fixes for many sharp edges

Feel free to find out more details by looking at the linked PRs below.

Added

• Add PyPI/CRAN/CPAN recipe generator to https://playground.rattler.build by @wolfv in #2538
• Improve CRAN recipe generation for R packages by @wolfv in #2597
• Display v3 package variant flags in build output by @wolfv in #2601
• Improve package content test failure messages with expanded globs by @wolfv in #2602
• Support source.filter for URL and archive path sources by @wolfv in #2608
• Redesign UI with themes, layouts and CodeMirror editor by @wolfv in #2604
• Make SHLIB_EXT available in Jinja templates by @wolfv in #2612
• Allow empty sha256 as all-zeros placeholder for recipe scaffolding by @wolfv in #2610
• Adds support to publish --to cloudsmith by @jmayes-rx in #2516
• Display optional dependency groups (extras) in dependency tables by @wolfv in #2621
• Warn about problematic entry point configurations by @wolfv in #2623
• Show executed commands for failing test scripts by @mohitdebian in #2266

Documentation

• Fix down_prioritize_variant documentation and example value by @wolfv in #2606

Fixed

• Report YAML parse error location for malformed Jinja by @wolfv in #2603
• Preserve explicit empty license_file in output packages by @wolfv in #2600
• Switch PyPI sources to use files.pythonhosted.org by @mgorny in #2586
• Write github output to stderr by @pavelzw in #2550
• Build test MatchSpec from typed components to support trailing-underscore versions by @XhstormR in #2618
• Use skip condition and platform-split script in generated R recipes by @pb01ka in #2609
• Don't treat non-exact run_constraints pins as build-order edges by @baszalmstra in #2537
• --render-only --with-solve panic when output dir missing by @wolfv in #2631
• CRAN recipe generation by @Hofer-Julian in #2637

New Contributors

• @jmayes-rx made their first contribution in #2516
• @XhstormR made their first contribution in #2618