v0.68.6

🛠️ Maintenance Release – Bug Fixes & Improvements!

This release doesn’t introduce major new features, but we’ve been hard at work squashing bugs and refining PyMAPDL for a smoother experience! 🚀

• 🐛 Fixed environment variables not being passed to MAPDL – Ensuring a more reliable launch process.
  Details ➡️ #3461

• 🔧 Various bug fixes and enhancements – Small but mighty improvements to keep everything running seamlessly.

Thanks for your continued support! 💡

What's Changed

New Features

• chore: update CHANGELOG for v0.68.5 by @pyansys-ci-bot in #3455
• feat: having two global flags. One for visualizer and one for pyvista by @germa89 in #3460
• refactor: removing deprecated arguments by @germa89 in #3473

Bug fixes or behavior changes

• fix: contributors file by @germa89 in #3457
• fix: add build cheatsheet as env variable within doc-build by @Revathyvenugopal162 in #3468
• fix: environment variables not being passed to MAPDL process by @germa89 in #3461
• fix: exiting earlier to avoid exceptions from gRPC calls by @germa89 in #3463

Documentation

• docs: another hpc docs reorg by @germa89 in #3465
• docs: fix cheat sheet rendering by @clatapie in #3469

Maintenance

• build: bump sphinx-autobuild from 2024.9.19 to 2024.10.3 in the documentation group by @dependabot in #3454
• build: bump grpcio from 1.66.1 to 1.66.2 in the grpc-deps group by @dependabot in #3453
• ci: bypass team check if it is dependabot by @germa89 in #3472
• ci: pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci in #3471
• ci: bump the actions group with 2 updates by @dependabot in #3470
• build: bump the documentation group with 3 updates by @dependabot in #3478
• build: bump numpy from 2.1.1 to 2.1.2 in the minimal group by @dependabot in #3476
• build: bump ansys-tools-visualization-interface from 0.4.4 to 0.4.5 in the core group by @dependabot in #3477

Full Changelog: v0.68.5...v0.68.6