During February 2026, Thibault Vatter enhanced Markdown tooling and R package distribution across the astral-sh/ruff and conda-forge/staged-recipes repositories. He implemented support for curly-brace code block formatting in Markdown, improving Quarto and R Markdown compatibility by updating regex logic and expanding test coverage. In conda-forge, Thibault developed and maintained recipes for several R packages, including kdecopula, pacotest, vinereg, vinecopula, and cctools, ensuring robust dependency management with BLAS/LAPACK integration. His work, primarily using Bash, R, and YAML, focused on improving build reliability, developer experience, and statistical analysis workflows, demonstrating depth in packaging and cross-repository collaboration.