March 2026 monthly summary for conda-forge/staged-recipes focused on packaging and CI improvements to enable cross-platform conda distributions across Windows, macOS, and Linux. Delivered cross-platform packaging updates, broadened Python compatibility, and standardized build scripts. Updated openff-packmol recipe.yaml with packaging standards (commits c024a59c3a19ae5a1bd92bee07bf6b89a16e4ccc; 5dbb5bae6b1929d9157d6879d7106b8c3db51951; 8baeaeb8bbace1c26f38609550779a9d0d45f243). No major bugs fixed this month; emphasis on reliability and preparatory groundwork for wider platform support. Impact: reduced manual steps, improved reproducibility, and expanded potential user base. Technologies demonstrated: CI automation, YAML-based packaging configuration, Python packaging practices, and cross-functional collaboration.

In May 2025, delivered a targeted dependency compatibility patch in the conda-forge-repodata-patches-feedstock to prevent runtime/build issues caused by openff-units 0.3.x with older openff-toolkit-base versions. The patch adds a dependency constraint to ensure compatibility, reducing downstream build failures and stabilizing user upgrade paths. This supports the OpenFF ecosystem’s stability and accelerates downstream adoption by eliminating churn in dependency resolution.