diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
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--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -7,6 +7,109 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+## [0.68.0] - 2026-09-16
+
+**Qwen 3.5 runs on the CPU.** Qwen3.5 / Qwen3.8 hybrid GGUFs (Gated DeltaNet + attention) load and generate through `apr run` and `apr chat` (#3114, closes #3091), backed by a reproducible llama.cpp `d1d3c3396` raw-logit reference and a three-PR parity evidence series (#3354, #3355, #3356): strict greedy equality is a near-tie under a margin gate, with every divergence llama.cpp's choice at realizar's rank 2 within 0.19 logits; Q8_K activations and f16 KV parity is 0.69 work (#3208). **One-line install.** `curl -LsSf https://raw.githubusercontent.com/paiml/aprender/main/scripts/install.sh | sh` resolves the release asset for the host, verifies its sha256 and puts `apr` on PATH (#3366). The release train itself hardened: the crates.io cascade refuses unless `clean-room.yml` is green on exactly the tag commit (#3335, #3357); the merge queue gained the unwedge rules (#3361, #3403) and the roadmap became fragment-per-entry so PRs stop colliding on one file (#3297, #3352); the `apr chat` exit code is honest on a failed generation (#3396); and a MoE loader refuses an unsupported expert quantization at load instead of at the first token (#3405, 0.69).
+
+### Added
+
+- feat(qwen35): Qwen3.5 / Qwen3.8 hybrid GGUFs run on the CPU — apr run + apr chat (#3091) (#3114)
+- feat(install): apr install.sh (curl one-liner) + path-scoped CI test suite (#3366)
+- feat(registry): R-0a — BackendRegistry probes and enumerates cpu/cuda/wgpu at startup and `apr devices` prints every kind as a line (PMAT-989, #2904) (#3004)
+- feat(crux): linfa and burn become CRUX competitors — category N, 17 contracts, registry edit + mutation proof (#3169)
+- feat(release): T-5 reconcile guards — check_pr_closes_issue.sh + check_reconcile.sh (APR-RELEASE-001 §6, kaizen) (#3200)
+- feat(ont): §11.2's five counters become measurable — and an anchor with no consumer is refused, not counted (#3280)
+- feat(ont): ONT-1 — `pv census`, the consumer whose absence made anchoring decoration (#3281)
+- feat(release): cascade refuses to publish unless clean-room is green on exactly the tag commit (#3335)
+- feat(registry): S3a — apr-cli resolves a backend against the registry, and a forced accelerator never downgrades to cpu (#3342)
+- feat(contracts): bind 5 of the 6 qwen35-e2e equations to real implementations — the 6th is named, not hidden (#3348)
+- feat(release): the cascade gate reads the structured tested-sha, and still refuses everything else (#3357)
+
+### Fixed
+
+- fix(moe): the loader knew the expert qtype and said nothing until the first token — load-time contract (#3341) (#3405)
+- fix(install): delete the dead proptest test-profile spec, and document why the rest cannot go today (#2575)
+- fix(security): wasmtime 43 -> 47.0.4 -- the real fix for RUSTSEC-2026-0269, and it needed ZERO source changes (#2807)
+- fix(beat): the ollama decode floor was calibrated on sm_89 and is now asserted on sm_121 (#2835) (#2838)
+- fix(cgp): a binary on PATH is not a device on the bus — Coverage Nightly was red on an environment fact (#2848)
+- fix(I-24): parity_block.py — a zero or empty COMPARATOR band is a named refusal, never a ZeroDivisionError traceback; case table both polarities wired into guard-runner-labels (PMAT-972, #2887, #2735) (#3006)
+- fix(C0-4): perf_gate.sh — an Arm A that measured nothing on a c=1-only receipt says so (REPORT ArmA scaling: c=1 only, no scaling measured) and the gate never turns an arm's silence into VERDICT PASS; selftest rows both polarities (PMAT-978, #2893, #2830) (#3007)
+- fix(I-25): --workload is bound to the prompt corpus — receipt.workload only with corpus_sha256 of a prompts file whose _meta.corpus equals the label; --workload W1 --profile short is refused with one line (PMAT-973, #2888, #2756) (#3008)
+- fix(I-26): spec_conformance.sh — a §12 expiry is the Expires marker, never the first date in the cell; rows past expiry are RED (the §4 andon); derived_expiries.json regenerated (row 1 → 2026-09-19) (PMAT-974, #2889) (#3009)
+- fix(C0-2): pin sovereign-ci.yml by sha; CB-2100 reachability finding filed (#3029) — PMAT-976 (#3031)
+- fix(pv): an empty corpus is refused with exit 2, never reported as PASS (PVL-1, PMAT-1099) (#3093)
+- fix(resolve_base): a main push whose HEAD is behind the tip is a push shape too — main red on 6157d1924 (#3201)
+- fix(cgp): FALSIFY-CGP-043 reported the runner's hardware, not the code — it needs nsys and clean-room has none (#3210)
+- fix(ci): the never-install policy had a detector nothing called — book.yml compiled bashrs 7.4.0 against a 7.0.1 pin, on every book build (#3214)
+- fix(pin): the pv pin called a runner fault a pinning defect — the classifier existed and nothing asked it (#3216)
+- fix(R-2): the closes-issue guard judged no PR body — and half of what it would have flagged were sibling PRs (#3220)
+- fix(ci): the sovereign-ci pin was two commits behind the one that makes gx10 work (#3225)
+- fix(test): coverage-nightly is red every night on one ETXTBSY race — a lock that could not close the window it was written for (#3227)
+- fix(guard): a pipe into grep -q under pipefail reports the producer's SIGPIPE, not grep's verdict (#3228)
+- fix(ci): a bind-mount source the reaper deleted mid-job gets recreated by the daemon, as root (#3232)
+- fix(mcp): sync the in-crate contract copy — it carries a kind: line the root one does not (#3238)
+- fix(git): a resolution that is always the same is a merge driver nobody wrote (#3256)
+- fix(features): the last two struct-drift selections — depth_slice and stream_options (#3265)
+- fix(distribute): drop num_cpus for std::thread::available_parallelism — the 7 selections the tokio gate leaves red (#3266)
+- fix(P0): the two green-only-together fixes, landed together — each was blocking the other (#3277)
+- fix(tools): pin pmat 3.40.1 and CB-200 back to 602 — the fleet converged 2026-09-14; re-measuring under 3.40.1 read 603 (PMAT-3300) (#3301)
+- fix(publish): aprender-compute used four dev-deps that cargo publish deletes — clean-room red 8/8 (#3307)
+- fix(git): a merge driver declared after a branch was cut never fires on it (#3309)
+- fix(guard): a full disk was reported as "the integrity check is theater" (#3319)
+- fix(C14): a host holding the model reported UNMEASURED, because the glob had case (#3326)
+- fix(guard): check_silicon_coverage reads evidence per axis workflow — a global RUN_CAP and an empty event page scored unread windows as UNCOVERED/NO-GO (#3339)
+- fix(test): the H1 SIMD speedup assertion fails a required check in a debug build (#3360)
+- fix(chat): a failed generation printed as an assistant turn exited 0 (#3367) (#3396)
+
+### Changed
+
+- perf(beat): run the speed lane on perf-solo and make it name its own runner (Refs PERF-031) (#2720)
+- measure(perf): PERF-062 band ladder at HEAD — ordered streams remove the corruption (#2789) (#2802)
+- audit: post-publish dogfood aprender 0.65.2 — NO-GO: README says CPU-only, plain install compiles the wgpu backend (Refs PMAT-246) (#3010)
+- roadmap: dedupe twelve duplicated ids; PMAT-1060 README CPU-only claim vs wgpu default, for 0.65.3 (Refs PMAT-1060) (#3027)
+- review(release-process): the v0.1 draft grilled against the measured fleet — 19 of 21 named artifacts do not exist, and the CUDA gate cannot fail (PMAT-1092) (#3056)
+- YOGA-NIGHTLY-001 R-3/R-4/R-6: the sm_89 axis, and the assertion that lets it go red (#3060)
+- ci(fleet): workspace-test runs on any clean-room box — gx10 measured 3–4× faster than intel; four aarch64-only reds fixed; tree-reader step builds 20 packages, not 686 binaries (PMAT-3138) (#3139)
+- docs(roadmap): PMAT-3161 — 14 published crates offer Apache-2.0 with no LICENSE-APACHE in the tree (#3162)
+- dogfood(examples): G3.EX learns needs-data — 173 examples that need a model or tokenizer the repo does not ship were reading as defects (#3163)
+- docs(release): APR-RELEASE-001 spec + PMAT-1098 receipt for session 1 — the 0.67.0 train (#3164)
+- docs(roadmap): five defects the linfa/burn sweep tripped over, four of them in the tooling doing the sweeping (#3175)
+- PMAT-1098: the release gate went red a third time — #3068's fleet check carried a DET002 and a SEC010 that no PR check ran (#3198)
+- PMAT-1098: the release's bashrs gate runs on every PR — it stopped the 0.67.0 train three times on findings no PR check saw (#3196) (#3199)
+- evidence(perf-060): land the stranded intel + mini c=1 calibration — T-5 called the branch dead, it holds the only measurement of what mini can do (#3211)
+- docs(ledger): the 0.67.0 T-5 reconcile receipt, measured — and three findings about the predicates themselves (#3212)
+- ci(quorum): `present` was pinned to X64 for no reason and starved the pool workspace-test needs (#3221)
+- ONT-2a: andon — L4/L5 print self-declared until grounded (#3224)
+- ci: bump actions/upload-artifact from 4 to 7 (#3237)
+- ci(book): a vanished dep-info file reported as a book that does not build (#3241)
+- ci(unwedge): the zombie aggregator that cost 8.5 hours has no containment that outlives a session (#3244)
+- docs(spec): APR-RELEASE-001 — feature matrix, examples, debt tax, continuous triage, decision procedure, ontology kaizen (§11), and the chain of reasoning (§12) (#3268)
+- APEX-2c: facet and coord are honoured by the renderer — NEW crates/aprender-viz/tests/facet_coord_render.rs (10 tests); EDITS grammar/facet.rs (+panels, +Panel), grammar/coord.rs (+apply, +apply_limits, f32→f64), grammar/ggplot.rs (BuiltGGPlot gains facet; per-panel render path; compute_data_ranges decomposed), grammar/data.rs (get_f32 row-aligned, +get_f32_present), grammar/mod.rs (re-exports), error.rs (+2 variants); BREAKING: Coord is f64 and get_f32 returns Vec<Option<f32>>; no new crate, no new dependency, no CI change (#3270)
+- triage(branches): 35 branches that never had a PR — commit count is the wrong instrument (#3278)
+- batch-1: nine collision-free CI/guard PRs as ONE queue entry (#3250 #3253 #3257 #3267 #3272 #3285 #3288 #3289 #3290) (#3295)
+- roadmap fragments (§1): one file per ticket, so the merge path has no shared mutable file (#3297)
+- ci(silicon): promote x86_64-cuda-sm89 to required — main is RED because the ada-yoga leg has run (#3299)
+- ci(nightly): shift every cron ~5h early so the nightlies actually run at night (#3302)
+- docs(run): §7 report — clean-room root-caused, 11 PRs unstranded (#3310)
+- ci: 355 contract tests were dark, and the target that ran them was broken (#3312)
+- contracts(0.68): 14 obligations had no id, and 4 proofs pointed at nothing (#3316)
+- contracts: 3,612 obligations had no id, so nothing could cite them (#3320)
+- test(contracts): discharge all 5 gated-delta-net obligations — the ignore reason was stale (#3322)
+- evidence(parity): the CPU leg exists as a structure — both sides refuse qwen35, measured (#3323)
+- pv: ProofObligation carries an id, and --check-ids proves a consumer reads it (#3327)
+- pin(llama.cpp): 39173bcac -> d1d3c3396 — the old pin predates Qwen3.5 support (#3331)
+- contracts(qwen35): QHF-BND-005 was vacuous, QE2E-ORD-003 false below one super-block, param equation had no lm_head (#3333)
+- docs(audits): PR #3041 split plan — 63 of 96 files already on main (#3334)
+- ci: the 4000-char explicit test line becomes fragments, one .cmd file per command, so adding a test target stops conflicting (#3336)
+- pv: an obligation that does not apply says so in the schema — typed N/A with a reason and an owner (#3340)
+- PR3: a roadmap edit without its fragment is refused — the contention #3297 removed cannot come back (#3352)
+- evidence(parity): a reproducible llama.cpp d1d3c3396 CPU raw-logit reference for Qwen3.5-0.8B (#3354)
+- evidence(parity): apr's Qwen3.5 CPU forward vs the d1d3c3396 reference — 78 positions, per-token prefill, 5 prompts (#3355)
+- evidence(parity): with ggml's arithmetic emulated, apr's Qwen3.5 CPU forward is BIT-IDENTICAL to scalar llama.cpp (#3356)
+- ci(unwedge): a run may not hold a concurrency group after its head is superseded, or while capacity sits idle (#3361)
+- ci(unwedge): rule 3 — a merge_group run whose queue group is gone is cancelled; arming refuses --auto unless guard-tree is green on the current head (#3292, #3358) (#3403)
+- ci(mini): workflow_dispatch probe of the PR job set on mini-m4 — measured neutral list for the rust-neutral label (MINI doctrine, #3205) (#3404)
+
 ## [0.67.0] - 2026-09-12
 
 0.67.0 is the first train of the 06x schedule (docs/specifications/06x-release-schedule.md, epic #3078): a release every 2–3 days whose PR tier is one build graph and whose CI runs on all three self-hosted boxes. Correctness: every Q5_K tensor decoded wrong on the CPU path, in `apr import` and in the CUDA GEMV — all three readers had invented a layout; the oracle is now gguf-py on a real block (#3110, #3113). Qwen3.5/Qwen3.8 hybrid GGUFs are refused honestly on both backends instead of promising a CPU fallback (#3099; the CPU forward itself ships in 0.68 behind the parity gate, #3091). aarch64: NEON LZ4 read unwritten output at offsets 16..63 (#3103) and the ARM-only clippy errors that kept gx10 out of `ci / lint` are gone (#3112). Fleet: arch-neutral jobs run on any clean-room box — intel, yoga, gx10 (#3104); every self-hosted job checks the box's toolset before spending an hour (#3088); guard-cargo/guard-tree fit the 20-minute budget with seven nightly-class steps moved to guards-nightly.yml (#3094); advisory gpu-quick (gx10) and cuda-unit (yoga) PR jobs (#3095); the quick tier is one nextest invocation, 55 min → ~6 min, and the merge queue mirrors the PR (#3089); tree-reader modules cut quick-tier seconds 93 % → 58 %, the 2-h mutant arm sweep is input-gated, and DIRTY roadmap conflicts merge by id (#3115). Release integrity: four apr binaries on every tag ({cuda,cpu} × {x86_64,aarch64}) verified by `check_release_assets.sh` (#3092); every workspace example must build AND run before a tag, plus apr-cookbook and release-notes gates (#3122); a low-priority nightly coverage run on yoga toward the 95 % target (#3123). Dark targets: the quick tier runs every integration target of a touched crate, which surfaced 77 vacuous spec_checklist rows (#3131), 20 stale aprender-serve rows (GH-438 dtype bytes, PMAT-855 byte glyphs, GH-213 load-time truncation, CRUX-C-34 health codes, GGUF v2 support) and one wall-clock benchmark posing as a test — now behind `bench-gates`. Triage: every open issue and PR carries a milestone and a type + priority label (#3102, #3125). Release assets: the CUDA `apr` binaries are built inside rust:1.93.0-bullseye on gx10/yoga for a glibc 2.31 floor — the native v0.66.0 x86_64 asset needed GLIBC_2.43 and did not start on Ubuntu 22.04 — and the CUDA lane moves its assets through the REST API because the self-hosted boxes carry no gh (#3072, #3074, #3086).
diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 678aecab7a..3c74e98dc0 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -248,7 +248,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "apr-cli"
-version = "0.67.0"
+version = "0.68.0"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
  "aprender-cgp",
@@ -321,7 +321,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "apr-format"
-version = "0.67.0"
+version = "0.68.0"
 dependencies = [
  "bincode",
  "cargo_metadata",
@@ -339,7 +339,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "aprender"
-version = "0.67.0"
+version = "0.68.0"
 dependencies = [
  "apr-cli",
  "aprender-core",
@@ -347,7 +347,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "aprender-bench-compute"
-version = "0.67.0"
+version = "0.68.0"
 dependencies = [
  "aprender-core",
  "criterion 0.7.0",
@@ -356,7 +356,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "aprender-bench-tokenizer"
-version = "0.67.0"
+version = "0.68.0"
 dependencies = [
  "aprender-core",
  "criterion 0.7.0",
@@ -365,7 +365,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "aprender-cbtop"
-version = "0.67.0"
+version = "0.68.0"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
  "aprender-common",
@@ -390,7 +390,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "aprender-cgp"
-version = "0.67.0"
+version = "0.68.0"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
  "aprender-gpu",
@@ -410,7 +410,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "aprender-common"
-version = "0.67.0"
+version = "0.68.0"
 dependencies = [
  "lz4_flex 0.11.6",
  "zstd",
@@ -418,7 +418,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "aprender-compute"
-version = "0.67.0"
+version = "0.68.0"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
  "aprender-contracts-macros",
@@ -467,7 +467,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "aprender-compute-xtask"
-version = "0.67.0"
+version = "0.68.0"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
  "bashrs",
@@ -481,7 +481,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "aprender-contracts"
-version = "0.67.0"
+version = "0.68.0"
 dependencies = [
  "aprender-contracts-macros",
  "criterion 0.5.1",
@@ -497,7 +497,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "aprender-contracts-cli"
-version = "0.67.0"
+version = "0.68.0"
 dependencies = [
  "aprender-contracts",
  "clap",
@@ -510,7 +510,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "aprender-contracts-macros"
-version = "0.67.0"
+version = "0.68.0"
 dependencies = [
  "proc-macro2",
  "quote",
@@ -520,7 +520,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "aprender-contrastive-data"
-version = "0.67.0"
+version = "0.68.0"
 dependencies = [
  "aprender-contracts-macros",
  "aprender-rand",
@@ -535,7 +535,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "aprender-core"
-version = "0.67.0"
+version = "0.68.0"
 dependencies = [
  "aes-gcm",
  "alsa",
@@ -589,7 +589,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "aprender-cuda-edge"
-version = "0.67.0"
+version = "0.68.0"
 dependencies = [
  "aprender-gpu",
  "proptest",
@@ -600,7 +600,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "aprender-cupti"
-version = "0.67.0"
+version = "0.68.0"
 dependencies = [
  "bindgen",
  "bitflags 2.13.0",
@@ -610,7 +610,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "aprender-data"
-version = "0.67.0"
+version = "0.68.0"
 dependencies = [
  "aes-gcm",
  "aprender-test-lib",
@@ -662,7 +662,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "aprender-db"
-version = "0.67.0"
+version = "0.68.0"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
  "aprender-common",
@@ -707,7 +707,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "aprender-distribute"
-version = "0.67.0"
+version = "0.68.0"
 dependencies = [
  "aprender-compute",
  "aprender-db",
@@ -737,7 +737,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "aprender-explain"
-version = "0.67.0"
+version = "0.68.0"
 dependencies = [
  "aprender-gpu",
  "aprender-present-core",
@@ -755,7 +755,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "aprender-fft"
-version = "0.67.0"
+version = "0.68.0"
 dependencies = [
  "criterion 0.7.0",
  "proptest",
@@ -764,7 +764,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "aprender-gemm-codegen"
-version = "0.67.0"
+version = "0.68.0"
 dependencies = [
  "proc-macro2",
  "quote",
@@ -773,7 +773,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "aprender-gpu"
-version = "0.67.0"
+version = "0.68.0"
 dependencies = [
  "aprender-common",
  "aprender-simulate",
@@ -791,7 +791,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "aprender-graph"
-version = "0.67.0"
+version = "0.68.0"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
  "aprender-compute",
@@ -812,7 +812,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "aprender-image"
-version = "0.67.0"
+version = "0.68.0"
 dependencies = [
  "criterion 0.7.0",
  "proptest",
@@ -821,7 +821,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "aprender-mcp"
-version = "0.67.0"
+version = "0.68.0"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
  "inventory",
@@ -835,7 +835,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "aprender-monte-carlo"
-version = "0.67.0"
+version = "0.68.0"
 dependencies = [
  "aprender",
  "assert_cmd",
@@ -854,7 +854,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "aprender-orchestrate"
-version = "0.67.0"
+version = "0.68.0"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
  "aprender-common",
@@ -924,7 +924,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "aprender-present-cli"
-version = "0.67.0"
+version = "0.68.0"
 dependencies = [
  "aprender-present-yaml",
  "clap",
@@ -937,7 +937,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "aprender-present-core"
-version = "0.67.0"
+version = "0.68.0"
 dependencies = [
  "aprender-contracts-macros",
  "criterion 0.7.0",
@@ -949,7 +949,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "aprender-present-layout"
-version = "0.67.0"
+version = "0.68.0"
 dependencies = [
  "aprender-present-core",
  "criterion 0.7.0",
@@ -960,7 +960,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "aprender-present-lib"
-version = "0.67.0"
+version = "0.68.0"
 dependencies = [
  "aprender-contracts",
  "aprender-present-core",
@@ -989,7 +989,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "aprender-present-terminal"
-version = "0.67.0"
+version = "0.68.0"
 dependencies = [
  "aprender-present-core",
  "bitvec",
@@ -1009,7 +1009,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "aprender-present-test"
-version = "0.67.0"
+version = "0.68.0"
 dependencies = [
  "aprender-present-core",
  "aprender-present-test-macros",
@@ -1020,7 +1020,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "aprender-present-test-macros"
-version = "0.67.0"
+version = "0.68.0"
 dependencies = [
  "proc-macro2",
  "quote",
@@ -1029,7 +1029,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "aprender-present-widgets"
-version = "0.67.0"
+version = "0.68.0"
 dependencies = [
  "aprender-present-core",
  "aprender-present-yaml",
@@ -1041,7 +1041,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "aprender-present-yaml"
-version = "0.67.0"
+version = "0.68.0"
 dependencies = [
  "aprender-present-core",
  "proptest",
@@ -1051,7 +1051,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "aprender-profile"
-version = "0.67.0"
+version = "0.68.0"
 dependencies = [
  "addr2line 0.25.1",
  "anyhow",
@@ -1103,7 +1103,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "aprender-profile-core"
-version = "0.67.0"
+version = "0.68.0"
 dependencies = [
  "hex",
  "serde",
@@ -1113,7 +1113,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "aprender-ptx-debug"
-version = "0.67.0"
+version = "0.68.0"
 dependencies = [
  "clap",
  "proptest",
@@ -1122,7 +1122,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "aprender-qa-certify"
-version = "0.67.0"
+version = "0.68.0"
 dependencies = [
  "chrono",
  "clap",
@@ -1133,7 +1133,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "aprender-qa-cli"
-version = "0.67.0"
+version = "0.68.0"
 dependencies = [
  "aprender-qa-certify",
  "aprender-qa-gen",
@@ -1152,7 +1152,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "aprender-qa-gen"
-version = "0.67.0"
+version = "0.68.0"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
  "chrono",
@@ -1169,7 +1169,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "aprender-qa-report"
-version = "0.67.0"
+version = "0.68.0"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
  "aprender-qa-gen",
@@ -1187,7 +1187,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "aprender-qa-runner"
-version = "0.67.0"
+version = "0.68.0"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
  "aprender-qa-gen",
@@ -1212,14 +1212,14 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "aprender-quant"
-version = "0.67.0"
+version = "0.68.0"
 dependencies = [
  "half",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
 name = "aprender-rag"
-version = "0.67.0"
+version = "0.68.0"
 dependencies = [
  "aprender-common",
  "aprender-compute",
@@ -1247,7 +1247,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "aprender-rag-cli"
-version = "0.67.0"
+version = "0.68.0"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
  "aprender-rag",
@@ -1265,7 +1265,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "aprender-rand"
-version = "0.67.0"
+version = "0.68.0"
 dependencies = [
  "criterion 0.7.0",
  "proptest",
@@ -1274,7 +1274,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "aprender-registry"
-version = "0.67.0"
+version = "0.68.0"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
  "aprender-core",
@@ -1304,7 +1304,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "aprender-serve"
-version = "0.67.0"
+version = "0.68.0"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
  "approx",
@@ -1372,7 +1372,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "aprender-shell"
-version = "0.67.0"
+version = "0.68.0"
 dependencies = [
  "aprender-core",
  "clap",
@@ -1387,7 +1387,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "aprender-simulate"
-version = "0.67.0"
+version = "0.68.0"
 dependencies = [
  "aprender-contracts",
  "aprender-contracts-macros",
@@ -1427,7 +1427,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "aprender-solve"
-version = "0.67.0"
+version = "0.68.0"
 dependencies = [
  "criterion 0.7.0",
  "half",
@@ -1437,7 +1437,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "aprender-sparse"
-version = "0.67.0"
+version = "0.68.0"
 dependencies = [
  "criterion 0.7.0",
  "proptest",
@@ -1446,7 +1446,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "aprender-tensor"
-version = "0.67.0"
+version = "0.68.0"
 dependencies = [
  "criterion 0.7.0",
  "proptest",
@@ -1455,7 +1455,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "aprender-test-cli"
-version = "0.67.0"
+version = "0.68.0"
 dependencies = [
  "aprender-test-lib",
  "assert_cmd",
@@ -1483,7 +1483,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "aprender-test-derive"
-version = "0.67.0"
+version = "0.68.0"
 dependencies = [
  "proc-macro2",
  "quote",
@@ -1493,7 +1493,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "aprender-test-js-gen"
-version = "0.67.0"
+version = "0.68.0"
 dependencies = [
  "blake3",
  "chrono",
@@ -1509,7 +1509,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "aprender-test-lib"
-version = "0.67.0"
+version = "0.68.0"
 dependencies = [
  "aprender-compute",
  "aprender-present-core",
@@ -1555,7 +1555,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "aprender-test-showcase"
-version = "0.67.0"
+version = "0.68.0"
 dependencies = [
  "aprender-present-terminal",
  "aprender-test-lib",
@@ -1572,7 +1572,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "aprender-train"
-version = "0.67.0"
+version = "0.68.0"
 dependencies = [
  "approx",
  "aprender-common",
@@ -1641,7 +1641,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "aprender-train-bench"
-version = "0.67.0"
+version = "0.68.0"
 dependencies = [
  "aprender-train",
  "aprender-train-common",
@@ -1658,7 +1658,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "aprender-train-common"
-version = "0.67.0"
+version = "0.68.0"
 dependencies = [
  "aprender-viz",
  "clap",
@@ -1670,7 +1670,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "aprender-train-distill"
-version = "0.67.0"
+version = "0.68.0"
 dependencies = [
  "aprender-train",
  "aprender-train-common",
@@ -1691,7 +1691,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "aprender-train-inspect"
-version = "0.67.0"
+version = "0.68.0"
 dependencies = [
  "aprender-train",
  "aprender-train-common",
@@ -1707,7 +1707,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "aprender-train-lora"
-version = "0.67.0"
+version = "0.68.0"
 dependencies = [
  "aprender-train",
  "aprender-train-common",
@@ -1723,7 +1723,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "aprender-train-shell"
-version = "0.67.0"
+version = "0.68.0"
 dependencies = [
  "aprender-train",
  "aprender-train-common",
@@ -1739,7 +1739,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "aprender-train-wasm"
-version = "0.67.0"
+version = "0.68.0"
 dependencies = [
  "proptest",
  "serde",
@@ -1750,7 +1750,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "aprender-tsp"
-version = "0.67.0"
+version = "0.68.0"
 dependencies = [
  "aprender",
  "assert_cmd",
@@ -1765,7 +1765,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "aprender-verify"
-version = "0.67.0"
+version = "0.68.0"
 dependencies = [
  "chrono",
  "criterion 0.5.1",
@@ -1777,7 +1777,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "aprender-verify-ml"
-version = "0.67.0"
+version = "0.68.0"
 dependencies = [
  "aprender-compute",
  "aprender-core",
@@ -1807,7 +1807,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "aprender-viz"
-version = "0.67.0"
+version = "0.68.0"
 dependencies = [
  "approx",
  "aprender-common",
@@ -1830,7 +1830,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "aprender-zram"
-version = "0.67.0"
+version = "0.68.0"
 dependencies = [
  "aprender-zram-adaptive",
  "aprender-zram-core",
@@ -1840,7 +1840,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "aprender-zram-adaptive"
-version = "0.67.0"
+version = "0.68.0"
 dependencies = [
  "aprender-zram-core",
  "proptest",
@@ -1849,7 +1849,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "aprender-zram-cli"
-version = "0.67.0"
+version = "0.68.0"
 dependencies = [
  "aprender-zram-adaptive",
  "aprender-zram-core",
@@ -1863,7 +1863,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "aprender-zram-core"
-version = "0.67.0"
+version = "0.68.0"
 dependencies = [
  "aprender-gpu",
  "criterion 0.7.0",
@@ -1875,7 +1875,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "aprender-zram-generator"
-version = "0.67.0"
+version = "0.68.0"
 dependencies = [
  "aprender-zram-core",
  "clap",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 18ee52158c..e58ecd2a0f 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ exclude = [
 resolver = "2"
 
 [workspace.package]
-version = "0.67.0"
+version = "0.68.0"
 edition = "2021"
 license = "MIT"
 repository = "https://github.com/paiml/aprender"
@@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ tokenizers = { version = "0.23.1", default-features = false, features = ["fancy-
 # aprender-rand (lib name `trueno_rand`) is a workspace MEMBER but had no
 # [workspace.dependencies] entry, so every consumer had to re-declare the path.
 # It is the counter-based Philox RNG behind the SetFit encoder's dropout masks.
-aprender-rand = { path = "crates/aprender-rand", version = "0.67.0" }
+aprender-rand = { path = "crates/aprender-rand", version = "0.68.0" }
 
 # Chat templates
 minijinja = { version = "2.14", features = ["loader", "serde"] }
@@ -237,9 +237,9 @@ minijinja = { version = "2.14", features = ["loader", "serde"] }
 # `crates/aprender-contracts` (lib name `provable_contracts`). Declaring it from
 # crates.io compiled a SECOND copy of the contract engine alongside the in-tree
 # one — exactly the duplicate-crate + publish-cycle the consolidation removed.
-provable-contracts = { path = "crates/aprender-contracts", version = "0.67.0", package = "aprender-contracts" }
-provable-contracts-macros = { path = "crates/aprender-contracts-macros", version = "0.67.0", package = "aprender-contracts-macros" }
-aprender-contracts-macros = { path = "crates/aprender-contracts-macros", version = "0.67.0" }
+provable-contracts = { path = "crates/aprender-contracts", version = "0.68.0", package = "aprender-contracts" }
+provable-contracts-macros = { path = "crates/aprender-contracts-macros", version = "0.68.0", package = "aprender-contracts-macros" }
+aprender-contracts-macros = { path = "crates/aprender-contracts-macros", version = "0.68.0" }
 
 # YAML
 serde_yaml = "0.9"
@@ -251,66 +251,66 @@ hf-hub = { version = "0.4", default-features = false, features = ["ureq"] }
 hf-xet = "1.5.1"
 
 # Workspace-internal crates (paths within the monorepo)
-aprender-compute = { path = "crates/aprender-compute", version = "0.67.0" }
-aprender-gpu = { path = "crates/aprender-gpu", version = "0.67.0" }
-aprender-quant = { path = "crates/aprender-quant", version = "0.67.0" }
-aprender-serve = { path = "crates/aprender-serve", version = "0.67.0" }
-realizar = { path = "crates/aprender-serve", version = "0.67.0", package = "aprender-serve" }
-alimentar = { path = "crates/aprender-data", version = "0.67.0", package = "aprender-data" }
-pacha = { path = "crates/aprender-registry", version = "0.67.0", package = "aprender-registry" }
+aprender-compute = { path = "crates/aprender-compute", version = "0.68.0" }
+aprender-gpu = { path = "crates/aprender-gpu", version = "0.68.0" }
+aprender-quant = { path = "crates/aprender-quant", version = "0.68.0" }
+aprender-serve = { path = "crates/aprender-serve", version = "0.68.0" }
+realizar = { path = "crates/aprender-serve", version = "0.68.0", package = "aprender-serve" }
+alimentar = { path = "crates/aprender-data", version = "0.68.0", package = "aprender-data" }
+pacha = { path = "crates/aprender-registry", version = "0.68.0", package = "aprender-registry" }
 # APR-MONO self-containment: legacy sibling lib-name aliases -> in-monorepo crates (2026-06-12)
-trueno-quant = { path = "crates/aprender-quant", version = "0.67.0", package = "aprender-quant" }
-trueno-db = { path = "crates/aprender-db", version = "0.67.0", package = "aprender-db" }
-trueno-viz = { path = "crates/aprender-viz", version = "0.67.0", package = "aprender-viz" }
-trueno-rag = { path = "crates/aprender-rag", version = "0.67.0", package = "aprender-rag" }
-trueno-cuda-edge = { path = "crates/aprender-cuda-edge", version = "0.67.0", package = "aprender-cuda-edge" }
-trueno-sparse = { path = "crates/aprender-sparse", version = "0.67.0", package = "aprender-sparse" }
-trueno-solve = { path = "crates/aprender-solve", version = "0.67.0", package = "aprender-solve" }
-renacer-core = { path = "crates/aprender-profile-core", version = "0.67.0", package = "aprender-profile-core" }
-repartir = { path = "crates/aprender-distribute", version = "0.67.0", package = "aprender-distribute" }
-simular = { path = "crates/aprender-simulate", version = "0.67.0", package = "aprender-simulate" }
-probar = { path = "crates/aprender-test-lib", version = "0.67.0", package = "aprender-test-lib" }
+trueno-quant = { path = "crates/aprender-quant", version = "0.68.0", package = "aprender-quant" }
+trueno-db = { path = "crates/aprender-db", version = "0.68.0", package = "aprender-db" }
+trueno-viz = { path = "crates/aprender-viz", version = "0.68.0", package = "aprender-viz" }
+trueno-rag = { path = "crates/aprender-rag", version = "0.68.0", package = "aprender-rag" }
+trueno-cuda-edge = { path = "crates/aprender-cuda-edge", version = "0.68.0", package = "aprender-cuda-edge" }
+trueno-sparse = { path = "crates/aprender-sparse", version = "0.68.0", package = "aprender-sparse" }
+trueno-solve = { path = "crates/aprender-solve", version = "0.68.0", package = "aprender-solve" }
+renacer-core = { path = "crates/aprender-profile-core", version = "0.68.0", package = "aprender-profile-core" }
+repartir = { path = "crates/aprender-distribute", version = "0.68.0", package = "aprender-distribute" }
+simular = { path = "crates/aprender-simulate", version = "0.68.0", package = "aprender-simulate" }
+probar = { path = "crates/aprender-test-lib", version = "0.68.0", package = "aprender-test-lib" }
 # English key for the same crate, named after the command it serves (`apr test`).
 # The dep KEY, not the package name, is what becomes the extern crate name when
 # the two differ — the lib target is still `jugar_probar`, so keying it by its
 # package name would have imported Spanish anyway. Renaming that lib target is
 # 196 call sites in 17 crates and gets its own PR; this key is how new code
 # reads English today.
-apr-test = { path = "crates/aprender-test-lib", version = "0.67.0", package = "aprender-test-lib", default-features = false, features = ["llm"] }
+apr-test = { path = "crates/aprender-test-lib", version = "0.68.0", package = "aprender-test-lib", default-features = false, features = ["llm"] }
 # `jugar-probar` is the crates.io/lib name of the same in-tree crate as `probar`
 # above. Both aliases resolve to ONE package; consumers that spelled it
 # `jugar-probar = "0.4"|"0.5"|"1.0"` were building three extra copies.
-jugar-probar = { path = "crates/aprender-test-lib", version = "0.67.0", package = "aprender-test-lib" }
+jugar-probar = { path = "crates/aprender-test-lib", version = "0.68.0", package = "aprender-test-lib" }
 # NOTE: the matching `jugar-probar-derive` alias already exists further down this
 # same table (it points at crates/aprender-test-derive). crates/aprender-test-lib
 # was pinning `jugar-probar-derive = "=1.0.3"` from crates.io regardless — the
 # alias was sitting there unused.
-aprender-train = { path = "crates/aprender-train", version = "0.67.0" }
-entrenar = { path = "crates/aprender-train", version = "0.67.0", package = "aprender-train" }
-aprender-train-common = { path = "crates/aprender-train-common", version = "0.67.0" }
-aprender-train-distill = { path = "crates/aprender-train-distill", version = "0.67.0" }
-aprender-orchestrate = { path = "crates/aprender-orchestrate", version = "0.67.0" }
-aprender-contracts = { path = "crates/aprender-contracts", version = "0.67.0" }
-aprender-profile = { path = "crates/aprender-profile", version = "0.67.0" }
-aprender-profile-core = { path = "crates/aprender-profile-core", version = "0.67.0" }
-aprender-zram-core = { path = "crates/aprender-zram-core", version = "0.67.0" }
-aprender-zram-adaptive = { path = "crates/aprender-zram-adaptive", version = "0.67.0" }
-aprender-zram-cli = { path = "crates/aprender-zram-cli", version = "0.67.0" }
-aprender-present-core = { path = "crates/aprender-present-core", version = "0.67.0" }
-aprender-present-terminal = { path = "crates/aprender-present-terminal", version = "0.67.0" }
-aprender-present-widgets = { path = "crates/aprender-present-widgets", version = "0.67.0" }
-aprender-present-layout = { path = "crates/aprender-present-layout", version = "0.67.0" }
-aprender-present-yaml = { path = "crates/aprender-present-yaml", version = "0.67.0" }
-aprender-present-test = { path = "crates/aprender-present-test", version = "0.67.0" }
-aprender-db = { path = "crates/aprender-db", version = "0.67.0" }
-aprender-graph = { path = "crates/aprender-graph", version = "0.67.0" }
-aprender-rag = { path = "crates/aprender-rag", version = "0.67.0" }
-aprender-rag-cli = { path = "crates/aprender-rag-cli", version = "0.67.0" }
-aprender-qa-cli = { path = "crates/aprender-qa-cli", version = "0.67.0" }
-aprender-cgp = { path = "crates/aprender-cgp", version = "0.67.0" }
-aprender-contrastive-data = { path = "crates/aprender-contrastive-data", version = "0.67.0" }
-aprender-contracts-cli = { path = "crates/aprender-contracts-cli", version = "0.67.0" }
-aprender-data = { path = "crates/aprender-data", version = "0.67.0" }
+aprender-train = { path = "crates/aprender-train", version = "0.68.0" }
+entrenar = { path = "crates/aprender-train", version = "0.68.0", package = "aprender-train" }
+aprender-train-common = { path = "crates/aprender-train-common", version = "0.68.0" }
+aprender-train-distill = { path = "crates/aprender-train-distill", version = "0.68.0" }
+aprender-orchestrate = { path = "crates/aprender-orchestrate", version = "0.68.0" }
+aprender-contracts = { path = "crates/aprender-contracts", version = "0.68.0" }
+aprender-profile = { path = "crates/aprender-profile", version = "0.68.0" }
+aprender-profile-core = { path = "crates/aprender-profile-core", version = "0.68.0" }
+aprender-zram-core = { path = "crates/aprender-zram-core", version = "0.68.0" }
+aprender-zram-adaptive = { path = "crates/aprender-zram-adaptive", version = "0.68.0" }
+aprender-zram-cli = { path = "crates/aprender-zram-cli", version = "0.68.0" }
+aprender-present-core = { path = "crates/aprender-present-core", version = "0.68.0" }
+aprender-present-terminal = { path = "crates/aprender-present-terminal", version = "0.68.0" }
+aprender-present-widgets = { path = "crates/aprender-present-widgets", version = "0.68.0" }
+aprender-present-layout = { path = "crates/aprender-present-layout", version = "0.68.0" }
+aprender-present-yaml = { path = "crates/aprender-present-yaml", version = "0.68.0" }
+aprender-present-test = { path = "crates/aprender-present-test", version = "0.68.0" }
+aprender-db = { path = "crates/aprender-db", version = "0.68.0" }
+aprender-graph = { path = "crates/aprender-graph", version = "0.68.0" }
+aprender-rag = { path = "crates/aprender-rag", version = "0.68.0" }
+aprender-rag-cli = { path = "crates/aprender-rag-cli", version = "0.68.0" }
+aprender-qa-cli = { path = "crates/aprender-qa-cli", version = "0.68.0" }
+aprender-cgp = { path = "crates/aprender-cgp", version = "0.68.0" }
+aprender-contrastive-data = { path = "crates/aprender-contrastive-data", version = "0.68.0" }
+aprender-contracts-cli = { path = "crates/aprender-contracts-cli", version = "0.68.0" }
+aprender-data = { path = "crates/aprender-data", version = "0.68.0" }
 
 # Additional external deps needed by sub-crates
 serde_yaml_ng = "0.10"
@@ -368,25 +368,25 @@ wasmtime = "47.0.4"
 bollard = "0.17"
 
 # Old crate name aliases (workspace = true refs in migrated sub-crates)
-trueno-zram-core = { path = "crates/aprender-zram-core", version = "0.67.0", package = "aprender-zram-core" }
-trueno-zram-adaptive = { path = "crates/aprender-zram-adaptive", version = "0.67.0", package = "aprender-zram-adaptive" }
-trueno = { path = "crates/aprender-compute", version = "0.67.0", package = "aprender-compute" }
-presentar-core = { path = "crates/aprender-present-core", version = "0.67.0", package = "aprender-present-core" }
-presentar-terminal = { path = "crates/aprender-present-terminal", version = "0.67.0", package = "aprender-present-terminal" }
-presentar-widgets = { path = "crates/aprender-present-widgets", version = "0.67.0", package = "aprender-present-widgets" }
-presentar-layout = { path = "crates/aprender-present-layout", version = "0.67.0", package = "aprender-present-layout" }
-presentar-yaml = { path = "crates/aprender-present-yaml", version = "0.67.0", package = "aprender-present-yaml" }
-presentar-test = { path = "crates/aprender-present-test", version = "0.67.0", package = "aprender-present-test" }
-presentar-test-macros = { path = "crates/aprender-present-test-macros", version = "0.67.0", package = "aprender-present-test-macros" }
-jugar-probar-derive = { path = "crates/aprender-test-derive", version = "0.67.0", package = "aprender-test-derive" }
-batuta-common = { path = "crates/aprender-common", version = "0.67.0", package = "aprender-common" }
+trueno-zram-core = { path = "crates/aprender-zram-core", version = "0.68.0", package = "aprender-zram-core" }
+trueno-zram-adaptive = { path = "crates/aprender-zram-adaptive", version = "0.68.0", package = "aprender-zram-adaptive" }
+trueno = { path = "crates/aprender-compute", version = "0.68.0", package = "aprender-compute" }
+presentar-core = { path = "crates/aprender-present-core", version = "0.68.0", package = "aprender-present-core" }
+presentar-terminal = { path = "crates/aprender-present-terminal", version = "0.68.0", package = "aprender-present-terminal" }
+presentar-widgets = { path = "crates/aprender-present-widgets", version = "0.68.0", package = "aprender-present-widgets" }
+presentar-layout = { path = "crates/aprender-present-layout", version = "0.68.0", package = "aprender-present-layout" }
+presentar-yaml = { path = "crates/aprender-present-yaml", version = "0.68.0", package = "aprender-present-yaml" }
+presentar-test = { path = "crates/aprender-present-test", version = "0.68.0", package = "aprender-present-test" }
+presentar-test-macros = { path = "crates/aprender-present-test-macros", version = "0.68.0", package = "aprender-present-test-macros" }
+jugar-probar-derive = { path = "crates/aprender-test-derive", version = "0.68.0", package = "aprender-test-derive" }
+batuta-common = { path = "crates/aprender-common", version = "0.68.0", package = "aprender-common" }
 # APR-MONO sibling aliases — MUST use workspace refs, NEVER crates.io versions.
 # Hard-pinning these to crates.io creates a diamond: sub-crates pull older
 # aprender versions → multiple `aprender` crates in Cargo.lock = MUDA.
-renacer = { path = "crates/aprender-profile", version = "0.67.0", package = "aprender-profile" }
-entrenar-lora = { path = "crates/aprender-train-lora", version = "0.67.0", package = "aprender-train-lora" }
-batuta = { path = "crates/aprender-orchestrate", version = "0.67.0", package = "aprender-orchestrate" }
-trueno-graph = { path = "crates/aprender-graph", version = "0.67.0", package = "aprender-graph" }
+renacer = { path = "crates/aprender-profile", version = "0.68.0", package = "aprender-profile" }
+entrenar-lora = { path = "crates/aprender-train-lora", version = "0.68.0", package = "aprender-train-lora" }
+batuta = { path = "crates/aprender-orchestrate", version = "0.68.0", package = "aprender-orchestrate" }
+trueno-graph = { path = "crates/aprender-graph", version = "0.68.0", package = "aprender-graph" }
 
 [workspace.lints.rust]
 # Safety
@@ -568,7 +568,7 @@ semicolon_if_nothing_returned = "allow"  # Style preference
 
 [package]
 name = "aprender"
-version = "0.67.0"
+version = "0.68.0"
 edition = "2021"
 rust-version = "1.91"
 authors = ["Noah Gift <noah@paiml.com>"]
@@ -676,9 +676,9 @@ required-features = ["cli"]
 # (e.g. apr-cookbook, downstream apps) don't pull apr-cli's heavy transitive
 # dep graph (renacer/profile/inference/zram/visualization). `cargo install
 # aprender` still works because `cli` is in default features. See GH-1599.
-apr-cli = { path = "crates/apr-cli", version = "0.67.0", default-features = true, optional = true }
+apr-cli = { path = "crates/apr-cli", version = "0.68.0", default-features = true, optional = true }
 # Core ML library (lib name = "aprender")
-aprender_ml = { path = "crates/aprender-core", version = "0.67.0", package = "aprender-core" }
+aprender_ml = { path = "crates/aprender-core", version = "0.68.0", package = "aprender-core" }
 
 [features]
 default = ["cli"]
diff --git a/crates/apr-cli/Cargo.toml b/crates/apr-cli/Cargo.toml
index a4c4b2a9a1..d5e45cf64f 100644
--- a/crates/apr-cli/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/apr-cli/Cargo.toml
@@ -117,12 +117,12 @@ libc = "0.2"
 # performed. A surface and its capability must not be able to drift.
 apr-test = { workspace = true }
 # Core aprender library
-aprender = { path = "../aprender-core", version = "0.67.0", package = "aprender-core", default-features = true, features = ["format-compression"] }
+aprender = { path = "../aprender-core", version = "0.68.0", package = "aprender-core", default-features = true, features = ["format-compression"] }
 # Provable-contracts engine — `apr beat-run` parses + evaluates BeatBenchmark contracts (PMAT-741)
 aprender-contracts = { workspace = true }
 
 # MCP (Model Context Protocol) server — `apr mcp` subcommand
-aprender-mcp = { path = "../aprender-mcp", version = "0.67.0" }
+aprender-mcp = { path = "../aprender-mcp", version = "0.68.0" }
 async-stream = "0.3"
 provable-contracts-macros = { workspace = true }
 
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ batuta-common = { workspace = true }
 # Non-optional since claude-code-parity-apr M150 (outcome-parity Phase 3
 # requires apr code in default builds). GH-344: path dep via
 # .cargo/config.toml.dev-overrides; CI uses checkout+symlink.
-batuta = { version = "0.67.0", path = "../aprender-orchestrate", package = "aprender-orchestrate", default-features = false, features = ["agents", "agents-inference", "agents-mcp", "rag"] }
+batuta = { version = "0.68.0", path = "../aprender-orchestrate", package = "aprender-orchestrate", default-features = false, features = ["agents", "agents-inference", "agents-mcp", "rag"] }
 
 # Inference engine (workspace path dep — enables cuda/gpu feature forwarding)
 # GH-573: shim (0.9.1) didn't forward cuda feature → 0.7 tok/s instead of 273 tok/s
@@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ pacha = { workspace = true }
 # published-crate dependency cycle the APR-MONO consolidation removed, and
 # (b) was never actually linked, so every `trueno_explain::` path in
 # commands/ptx_explain.rs failed to resolve.
-trueno-explain = { path = "../aprender-explain", version = "0.67.0", package = "aprender-explain", optional = true }
+trueno-explain = { path = "../aprender-explain", version = "0.68.0", package = "aprender-explain", optional = true }
 
 # ML tuning: LoRA/QLoRA configuration and memory planning (GH-176, PMAT-184)
 entrenar-lora = { workspace = true, optional = true }
diff --git a/crates/aprender-bench-compute/Cargo.toml b/crates/aprender-bench-compute/Cargo.toml
index 7ec5a714ff..cc5bee5ec6 100644
--- a/crates/aprender-bench-compute/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/aprender-bench-compute/Cargo.toml
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ disallowed_methods = "allow"
 
 [dependencies]
 # The implementation under test
-aprender = { path = "../aprender-core", version = "0.67.0", package = "aprender-core", features = ["format-quantize"] }
+aprender = { path = "../aprender-core", version = "0.68.0", package = "aprender-core", features = ["format-quantize"] }
 
 # Reference implementation for A/B comparison
 # Pure Rust (no BLAS) to keep comparison fair — both are pure Rust SIMD
diff --git a/crates/aprender-bench-tokenizer/Cargo.toml b/crates/aprender-bench-tokenizer/Cargo.toml
index 08251db7d3..2ba8da6f45 100644
--- a/crates/aprender-bench-tokenizer/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/aprender-bench-tokenizer/Cargo.toml
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ disallowed_methods = "allow"
 
 [dependencies]
 # The implementation under test
-aprender = { path = "../aprender-core", version = "0.67.0", package = "aprender-core" }
+aprender = { path = "../aprender-core", version = "0.68.0", package = "aprender-core" }
 
 # HuggingFace reference for A/B comparison
 # Regular dep (not dev-dep) because [[bench]] harness=false binaries can't see dev-deps
diff --git a/crates/aprender-cbtop/Cargo.toml b/crates/aprender-cbtop/Cargo.toml
index 2d71f84b5d..58a1406f32 100644
--- a/crates/aprender-cbtop/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/aprender-cbtop/Cargo.toml
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ presentar-terminal = { workspace = true }
 
 # Compute backends
 trueno = { workspace = true }
-trueno-gpu = { version = "0.67.0", path = "../aprender-gpu", package = "aprender-gpu", optional = true }
+trueno-gpu = { version = "0.68.0", path = "../aprender-gpu", package = "aprender-gpu", optional = true }
 
 # Terminal handling
 crossterm = "0.28"
diff --git a/crates/aprender-cgp/Cargo.toml b/crates/aprender-cgp/Cargo.toml
index 7dfd399f40..774be5cd69 100644
--- a/crates/aprender-cgp/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/aprender-cgp/Cargo.toml
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ num_cpus = "1.17"
 comfy-table = "7"
 colored = "3"
 # GPU profiling: direct cuBLAS measurement (OWN THE STACK)
-trueno-gpu = { path = "../aprender-gpu", version = "0.67.0", features = ["cuda"], optional = true, package = "aprender-gpu" }
+trueno-gpu = { path = "../aprender-gpu", version = "0.68.0", features = ["cuda"], optional = true, package = "aprender-gpu" }
 
 [features]
 default = []
diff --git a/crates/aprender-compute/Cargo.toml b/crates/aprender-compute/Cargo.toml
index 22c123834c..efb6024261 100644
--- a/crates/aprender-compute/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/aprender-compute/Cargo.toml
@@ -41,11 +41,11 @@ futures-intrusive = { version = "0.5", optional = true }
 wasm-bindgen-futures = { version = "0.4", optional = true }
 wasm-bindgen = { version = "0.2", optional = true }
 # Native CUDA monitoring via trueno-gpu (TRUENO-SPEC-010)
-trueno-gpu = { version = "0.67.0", path = "../aprender-gpu", optional = true, package = "aprender-gpu" }
+trueno-gpu = { version = "0.68.0", path = "../aprender-gpu", optional = true, package = "aprender-gpu" }
 # PMAT-336: Provable contracts compile-time enforcement
 provable-contracts-macros = { workspace = true }
 # P1a: Sovereign GEMM microkernel codegen (compile-time shape specialization)
-trueno-gemm-codegen = { version = "0.67.0", path = "../aprender-gemm-codegen", package = "aprender-gemm-codegen" }
+trueno-gemm-codegen = { version = "0.68.0", path = "../aprender-gemm-codegen", package = "aprender-gemm-codegen" }
 # Tracing/profiling support (renacer integration)
 tracing = { version = "0.1", optional = true }
 tracing-subscriber = { version = "0.3", features = ["env-filter", "fmt"], optional = true }
diff --git a/crates/aprender-contracts-cli/Cargo.toml b/crates/aprender-contracts-cli/Cargo.toml
index 7f29bd953b..c172eeb8c9 100644
--- a/crates/aprender-contracts-cli/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/aprender-contracts-cli/Cargo.toml
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ name = "pv"
 path = "src/main.rs"
 
 [dependencies]
-aprender-contracts = { path = "../aprender-contracts", version = "0.67.0" }
+aprender-contracts = { path = "../aprender-contracts", version = "0.68.0" }
 clap = { workspace = true }
 serde = { workspace = true }
 serde_json = { workspace = true }
diff --git a/crates/aprender-contracts/Cargo.toml b/crates/aprender-contracts/Cargo.toml
index 95e7f9c9ac..f8bb79f5d0 100644
--- a/crates/aprender-contracts/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/aprender-contracts/Cargo.toml
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ kani = []
 name = "provable_contracts"
 
 [dependencies]
-provable-contracts-macros = { path = "../aprender-contracts-macros", version = "0.67.0", package = "aprender-contracts-macros" }
+provable-contracts-macros = { path = "../aprender-contracts-macros", version = "0.68.0", package = "aprender-contracts-macros" }
 regex = "1"
 serde = { workspace = true }
 serde_json = { workspace = true }
diff --git a/crates/aprender-core/Cargo.toml b/crates/aprender-core/Cargo.toml
index 2c016a41f5..ff9b7eff20 100644
--- a/crates/aprender-core/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/aprender-core/Cargo.toml
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ trueno-quant = { workspace = true }
 # APR-2231: sovereign `.apr` container leaf. aprender-core From-wraps its
 # AprFormatError into AprenderError and re-exports it (no API break). Leaf has
 # no dependency back on core, so this introduces no publish cycle.
-apr-format = { path = "../apr-format", version = "0.67" }
+apr-format = { path = "../apr-format", version = "0.68" }
 
 # NOTE: trueno-rag (=aprender-rag) removed (APR-MONO self-containment): aprender-rag
 # depends on aprender-core + aprender-serve, so core→rag closed a core→rag→serve→core
diff --git a/crates/aprender-cuda-edge/Cargo.toml b/crates/aprender-cuda-edge/Cargo.toml
index de33ec01de..bc8d9bc0fa 100644
--- a/crates/aprender-cuda-edge/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/aprender-cuda-edge/Cargo.toml
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ name = "trueno_cuda_edge"
 [dependencies]
 thiserror = "2.0"
 serde = { version = "1.0", features = ["derive"] }
-trueno-gpu = { version = "0.67.0", path = "../aprender-gpu", package = "aprender-gpu", optional = true }
+trueno-gpu = { version = "0.68.0", path = "../aprender-gpu", package = "aprender-gpu", optional = true }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 proptest = "1.6"
diff --git a/crates/aprender-explain/Cargo.toml b/crates/aprender-explain/Cargo.toml
index 9d0fb1d478..64e10ea79a 100644
--- a/crates/aprender-explain/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/aprender-explain/Cargo.toml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ presentar-terminal = { workspace = true }
 crossterm = "0.28"
 
 # Internal dependency for PTX generation
-trueno-gpu = { version = "0.67.0", path = "../aprender-gpu", package = "aprender-gpu", features = ["cuda"] }
+trueno-gpu = { version = "0.68.0", path = "../aprender-gpu", package = "aprender-gpu", features = ["cuda"] }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 proptest = "1.4"
diff --git a/crates/aprender-graph/Cargo.toml b/crates/aprender-graph/Cargo.toml
index f564da2854..12d05aaf15 100644
--- a/crates/aprender-graph/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/aprender-graph/Cargo.toml
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ anyhow = "1"
 thiserror = "2"
 
 # Phase 2+ dependencies
-aprender = { path = "../aprender-core", version = "0.67.0", package = "aprender-core" }                                        # Sparse matrix ops, PageRank
+aprender = { path = "../aprender-core", version = "0.68.0", package = "aprender-core" }                                        # Sparse matrix ops, PageRank
 trueno = { workspace = true }
 
 # Phase 3: GPU acceleration (optional - requires wgpu-capable hardware)
diff --git a/crates/aprender-monte-carlo/Cargo.toml b/crates/aprender-monte-carlo/Cargo.toml
index 0bedc8f0f7..91f3e2cf06 100644
--- a/crates/aprender-monte-carlo/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/aprender-monte-carlo/Cargo.toml
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ path = "src/lib.rs"
 name = "aprender-monte-carlo"
 
 [dependencies]
-aprender = { path = "../../", version = "0.67.0" }
+aprender = { path = "../../", version = "0.68.0" }
 clap = { version = "4", features = ["derive"] }
 rand = "0.9"
 rand_chacha = "0.9"
diff --git a/crates/aprender-orchestrate/Cargo.toml b/crates/aprender-orchestrate/Cargo.toml
index 9d07c79fd6..159305d49c 100644
--- a/crates/aprender-orchestrate/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/aprender-orchestrate/Cargo.toml
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ pacha = { workspace = true, optional = true }
 realizar = { workspace = true, optional = true }
 
 # ML algorithms and training (native-only)
-aprender = { path = "../aprender-core", version = "0.67.0", package = "aprender-core", optional = true }
+aprender = { path = "../aprender-core", version = "0.68.0", package = "aprender-core", optional = true }
 entrenar = { workspace = true, optional = true }
 alimentar = { workspace = true, optional = true }
 
diff --git a/crates/aprender-profile/Cargo.toml b/crates/aprender-profile/Cargo.toml
index 64e935d493..1db998cb48 100644
--- a/crates/aprender-profile/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/aprender-profile/Cargo.toml
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ trueno = { workspace = true }
 
 # Machine learning for anomaly detection (Sprint 23)
 # GH-581: Use path dep to avoid trueno version skew with local workspace
-aprender = { path = "../aprender-core", version = "0.67.0", package = "aprender-core" }
+aprender = { path = "../aprender-core", version = "0.68.0", package = "aprender-core" }
 
 # Lock-free data structures for ring buffer (Sprint 40)
 crossbeam = { version = "0.8", default-features = false, features = ["crossbeam-channel", "crossbeam-queue", "std"] }
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ crossterm = "0.28"
 
 # SIMD-accelerated visualization primitives (sister project)
 # NOTE: `monitor` feature removed upstream (#1979); this crate uses only viz primitives.
-trueno-viz = { version = "0.67.0", path = "../aprender-viz", package = "aprender-viz", default-features = false }
+trueno-viz = { version = "0.68.0", path = "../aprender-viz", package = "aprender-viz", default-features = false }
 
 # OpenTelemetry for distributed tracing (Sprint 30)
 opentelemetry = { version = "0.31.0", optional = true }
diff --git a/crates/aprender-qa-cli/Cargo.toml b/crates/aprender-qa-cli/Cargo.toml
index 3d4d715c56..2862d97ef5 100644
--- a/crates/aprender-qa-cli/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/aprender-qa-cli/Cargo.toml
@@ -23,10 +23,10 @@ serde_json = { workspace = true }
 serde_yaml = { workspace = true }
 clap = { workspace = true }
 chrono = { workspace = true }
-aprender-qa-gen = { version = "0.67.0", path = "../aprender-qa-gen" }
-aprender-qa-runner = { version = "0.67.0", path = "../aprender-qa-runner" }
-aprender-qa-report = { version = "0.67.0", path = "../aprender-qa-report" }
-aprender-qa-certify = { version = "0.67.0", path = "../aprender-qa-certify" }
+aprender-qa-gen = { version = "0.68.0", path = "../aprender-qa-gen" }
+aprender-qa-runner = { version = "0.68.0", path = "../aprender-qa-runner" }
+aprender-qa-report = { version = "0.68.0", path = "../aprender-qa-report" }
+aprender-qa-certify = { version = "0.68.0", path = "../aprender-qa-certify" }
 ctrlc = "3.4"
 safetensors = { workspace = true }
 colored = "2.2"
diff --git a/crates/aprender-qa-report/Cargo.toml b/crates/aprender-qa-report/Cargo.toml
index 6e8c52484d..d7fb872efc 100644
--- a/crates/aprender-qa-report/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/aprender-qa-report/Cargo.toml
@@ -18,8 +18,8 @@ anyhow = { workspace = true }
 chrono = { workspace = true }
 colored = "2.2"
 csv = "1.3"
-aprender-qa-gen = { version = "0.67.0", path = "../aprender-qa-gen" }
-aprender-qa-runner = { version = "0.67.0", path = "../aprender-qa-runner" }
+aprender-qa-gen = { version = "0.68.0", path = "../aprender-qa-gen" }
+aprender-qa-runner = { version = "0.68.0", path = "../aprender-qa-runner" }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 proptest = { workspace = true }
diff --git a/crates/aprender-qa-runner/Cargo.toml b/crates/aprender-qa-runner/Cargo.toml
index 078d221941..5ed6b08fcc 100644
--- a/crates/aprender-qa-runner/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/aprender-qa-runner/Cargo.toml
@@ -22,14 +22,14 @@ anyhow = { workspace = true }
 tokio = { workspace = true }
 chrono = { workspace = true, features = ["serde"] }
 tracing = { workspace = true }
-aprender-qa-gen = { version = "0.67.0", path = "../aprender-qa-gen" }
+aprender-qa-gen = { version = "0.68.0", path = "../aprender-qa-gen" }
 hostname = "0.4"
 rayon = "1.10"
 sha2 = "0.10"
 regex = { workspace = true }
 num_cpus = "1.16"
 safetensors = { workspace = true }
-jugar-probar = { version = "0.67.0", path = "../aprender-test-lib", package = "aprender-test-lib", features = ["llm-types"] }
+jugar-probar = { version = "0.68.0", path = "../aprender-test-lib", package = "aprender-test-lib", features = ["llm-types"] }
 # Test fixtures dependencies (optional)
 tempfile = { version = "3", optional = true }
 half = { version = "2.4", optional = true }
diff --git a/crates/aprender-rag-cli/Cargo.toml b/crates/aprender-rag-cli/Cargo.toml
index e6b7457ae8..d4806ea978 100644
--- a/crates/aprender-rag-cli/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/aprender-rag-cli/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "aprender-rag-cli"
-version = "0.67.0"
+version = "0.68.0"
 edition = "2021"
 authors = ["Pragmatic AI Labs"]
 description = "CLI for Trueno-RAG pipeline"
diff --git a/crates/aprender-rag/Cargo.toml b/crates/aprender-rag/Cargo.toml
index 54c8d93cf8..96c69a45b8 100644
--- a/crates/aprender-rag/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/aprender-rag/Cargo.toml
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ fastembed = { version = "5", optional = true }
 
 # NVIDIA Embed Nemotron 8B via realizar GGUF infrastructure (GH-3)
 # Large model (~4-32GB depending on quantization), requires GGUF file
-realizar = { version = "0.67.0", path = "../aprender-serve", package = "aprender-serve", default-features = false, optional = true }
+realizar = { version = "0.68.0", path = "../aprender-serve", package = "aprender-serve", default-features = false, optional = true }
 
 
 # Eval: LLM-as-judge via Anthropic API (PMAT-015)
diff --git a/crates/aprender-registry/Cargo.toml b/crates/aprender-registry/Cargo.toml
index 77bf7ee6ff..eac1ad477a 100644
--- a/crates/aprender-registry/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/aprender-registry/Cargo.toml
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ zstd = { version = "0.13", optional = true }
 clap = { version = "4", features = ["derive"], optional = true }
 
 # Ecosystem integration
-aprender = { path = "../aprender-core", version = "0.67.0", package = "aprender-core", optional = true }
+aprender = { path = "../aprender-core", version = "0.68.0", package = "aprender-core", optional = true }
 alimentar = { workspace = true, optional = true }
 
 # HTTP client (optional)
diff --git a/crates/aprender-serve/Cargo.toml b/crates/aprender-serve/Cargo.toml
index 8cc95e708a..70f1e59a59 100644
--- a/crates/aprender-serve/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/aprender-serve/Cargo.toml
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ name = "realizar"
 trueno = { workspace = true, features = ["gpu"] }
 # CUDA PTX generation and runtime for NVIDIA GPUs (optional, pure Rust, no LLVM/nvcc)
 # v0.4.12: BatchedQ6K, MultiWarp, RopeNeox, FlashDecoding kernels
-trueno-gpu = { version = "0.67.0", path = "../aprender-gpu", package = "aprender-gpu", optional = true, features = ["cuda"] }  # APR-MONO single-source-of-truth
+trueno-gpu = { version = "0.68.0", path = "../aprender-gpu", package = "aprender-gpu", optional = true, features = ["cuda"] }  # APR-MONO single-source-of-truth
 # KV cache storage (for attention caching)
 trueno-db = { workspace = true, optional = true }
 # K-quantization formats (Q4_K, Q5_K, Q6_K) - Toyota Way: ONE source of truth
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ renacer-core = { workspace = true }
 
 # ML algorithms and .apr model format (optional for aprender model serving)
 # v0.24.1: chat templates, GGUF tokenizer preservation (local may be newer)
-aprender = { path = "../aprender-core", version = "0.67.0", package = "aprender-core", optional = true }
+aprender = { path = "../aprender-core", version = "0.68.0", package = "aprender-core", optional = true }
 
 # Data loading library (optional for data pipeline examples)
 alimentar = { workspace = true, optional = true }
diff --git a/crates/aprender-shell/Cargo.toml b/crates/aprender-shell/Cargo.toml
index 821955ee37..4a38fb9cc2 100644
--- a/crates/aprender-shell/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/aprender-shell/Cargo.toml
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ harness = false
 
 [dependencies]
 # Use path for local dev, crates.io for release
-aprender = { path = "../aprender-core", version = "0.67.0", package = "aprender-core", features = ["format-encryption", "format-compression", "format-homomorphic"] }
+aprender = { path = "../aprender-core", version = "0.68.0", package = "aprender-core", features = ["format-encryption", "format-compression", "format-homomorphic"] }
 clap = { version = "4", features = ["derive"] }
 dirs = "5"
 serde = { version = "1", features = ["derive"] }
diff --git a/crates/aprender-simulate/Cargo.toml b/crates/aprender-simulate/Cargo.toml
index b15fbc2540..cd8de8a07a 100644
--- a/crates/aprender-simulate/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/aprender-simulate/Cargo.toml
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ crossterm = { version = "0.28", optional = true }
 # ComputeBlocks from presentar-terminal (SIMD-optimized TUI widgets)
 # Path deps to avoid jugar-probar prod dep chain (CB-081)
 presentar-terminal = { workspace = true, optional = true }
-presentar-core = { version = "0.67.0", path = "../aprender-present-core", package = "aprender-present-core", default-features = false, optional = true }
+presentar-core = { version = "0.68.0", path = "../aprender-present-core", package = "aprender-present-core", default-features = false, optional = true }
 
 # WASM (optional)
 wasm-bindgen = { version = "0.2", optional = true }
diff --git a/crates/aprender-test-cli/Cargo.toml b/crates/aprender-test-cli/Cargo.toml
index ccd61fd5bf..fb461a2d17 100644
--- a/crates/aprender-test-cli/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/aprender-test-cli/Cargo.toml
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ path = "src/main.rs"
 
 [dependencies]
 # Core library (was: jugar-probar) — dep key preserves Rust identifier
-jugar-probar = { path = "../aprender-test-lib", version = "0.67.0", package = "aprender-test-lib" }
+jugar-probar = { path = "../aprender-test-lib", version = "0.68.0", package = "aprender-test-lib" }
 
 # CLI framework
 clap = { workspace = true }
diff --git a/crates/aprender-train-bench/Cargo.toml b/crates/aprender-train-bench/Cargo.toml
index a700ec53c6..f4146b2be4 100644
--- a/crates/aprender-train-bench/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/aprender-train-bench/Cargo.toml
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ workspace = true
 
 [dependencies]
 entrenar = { workspace = true }
-entrenar-common = { version = "0.67.0", path = "../aprender-train-common", package = "aprender-train-common" }
+entrenar-common = { version = "0.68.0", path = "../aprender-train-common", package = "aprender-train-common" }
 clap = { version = "4.5", features = ["derive"] }
 serde = { version = "1.0", features = ["derive"] }
 serde_json = "1.0"
diff --git a/crates/aprender-train-distill/Cargo.toml b/crates/aprender-train-distill/Cargo.toml
index 8b669f0ce5..fd2e6520ed 100644
--- a/crates/aprender-train-distill/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/aprender-train-distill/Cargo.toml
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ shard-batch-source = []
 
 [dependencies]
 entrenar = { workspace = true }
-entrenar-common = { version = "0.67.0", path = "../aprender-train-common", package = "aprender-train-common" }
+entrenar-common = { version = "0.68.0", path = "../aprender-train-common", package = "aprender-train-common" }
 clap = { version = "4.5", features = ["derive"] }
 serde = { version = "1.0", features = ["derive"] }
 serde_json = "1.0"
diff --git a/crates/aprender-train-inspect/Cargo.toml b/crates/aprender-train-inspect/Cargo.toml
index c4a5948f55..1c963d0ef6 100644
--- a/crates/aprender-train-inspect/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/aprender-train-inspect/Cargo.toml
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ workspace = true
 
 [dependencies]
 entrenar = { workspace = true }
-entrenar-common = { version = "0.67.0", path = "../aprender-train-common", package = "aprender-train-common" }
+entrenar-common = { version = "0.68.0", path = "../aprender-train-common", package = "aprender-train-common" }
 clap = { version = "4.5", features = ["derive"] }
 serde = { version = "1.0", features = ["derive"] }
 serde_json = "1.0"
diff --git a/crates/aprender-train-lora/Cargo.toml b/crates/aprender-train-lora/Cargo.toml
index 201117faa3..455d040d21 100644
--- a/crates/aprender-train-lora/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/aprender-train-lora/Cargo.toml
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ workspace = true
 
 [dependencies]
 entrenar = { workspace = true }
-entrenar-common = { version = "0.67.0", path = "../aprender-train-common", package = "aprender-train-common" }
+entrenar-common = { version = "0.68.0", path = "../aprender-train-common", package = "aprender-train-common" }
 clap = { version = "4.5", features = ["derive"] }
 serde = { version = "1.0", features = ["derive"] }
 serde_json = "1.0"
diff --git a/crates/aprender-train-shell/Cargo.toml b/crates/aprender-train-shell/Cargo.toml
index a0ac5594aa..3ec3fdcc66 100644
--- a/crates/aprender-train-shell/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/aprender-train-shell/Cargo.toml
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ workspace = true
 
 [dependencies]
 entrenar = { workspace = true }
-entrenar-common = { version = "0.67.0", path = "../aprender-train-common", package = "aprender-train-common" }
+entrenar-common = { version = "0.68.0", path = "../aprender-train-common", package = "aprender-train-common" }
 clap = { version = "4.5", features = ["derive"] }
 rustyline = "14"
 serde = { version = "1.0", features = ["derive"] }
diff --git a/crates/aprender-train/Cargo.toml b/crates/aprender-train/Cargo.toml
index 211889f8b1..bb80ebd5ad 100644
--- a/crates/aprender-train/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/aprender-train/Cargo.toml
@@ -80,9 +80,9 @@ provable-contracts-macros = { workspace = true }
 # Core PAIML stack
 ndarray = "0.16"
 trueno = { workspace = true, features = ["parallel"] }
-trueno-gpu = { version = "0.67.0", path = "../aprender-gpu", package = "aprender-gpu", optional = true }  # CUDA compute (APR-MONO single-source-of-truth)
+trueno-gpu = { version = "0.68.0", path = "../aprender-gpu", package = "aprender-gpu", optional = true }  # CUDA compute (APR-MONO single-source-of-truth)
 realizar = { workspace = true, optional = true }
-aprender = { path = "../aprender-core", version = "0.67.0", package = "aprender-core" }  # ML interpret module + .apr format + tokenizers
+aprender = { path = "../aprender-core", version = "0.68.0", package = "aprender-core" }  # ML interpret module + .apr format + tokenizers
 trueno-viz = { workspace = true, features = ["terminal"] }
 batuta-common = { workspace = true, optional = true }  # WithDimensions trait for `viz` feature (APR-MONO §S #1978)
 presentar-terminal = { workspace = true, optional = true }
diff --git a/crates/aprender-tsp/Cargo.toml b/crates/aprender-tsp/Cargo.toml
index fd6e7da3db..87cb7ba64d 100644
--- a/crates/aprender-tsp/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/aprender-tsp/Cargo.toml
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ path = "src/lib.rs"
 name = "aprender-tsp"
 
 [dependencies]
-aprender = { path = "../../", version = "0.67.0" }
+aprender = { path = "../../", version = "0.68.0" }
 clap = { version = "4", features = ["derive"] }
 rand = "0.9"
 crc32fast = "1.4"
diff --git a/crates/aprender-verify-ml/Cargo.toml b/crates/aprender-verify-ml/Cargo.toml
index cbdbea71a1..292d0c1ecc 100644
--- a/crates/aprender-verify-ml/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/aprender-verify-ml/Cargo.toml
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ uuid = { version = "1.11", features = ["v4", "serde"] }
 trueno = { workspace = true }
 
 # Machine learning for bug prediction (optional)
-aprender = { path = "../aprender-core", version = "0.67.0", package = "aprender-core", optional = true }
+aprender = { path = "../aprender-core", version = "0.68.0", package = "aprender-core", optional = true }
 
 # LLM fine-tuning integration (optional)
 entrenar = { workspace = true, optional = true }
diff --git a/crates/aprender-viz/Cargo.toml b/crates/aprender-viz/Cargo.toml
index fb0ca8e810..043b9b22c7 100644
--- a/crates/aprender-viz/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/aprender-viz/Cargo.toml
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ categories = ["visualization", "graphics", "science", "wasm"]
 
 [dependencies]
 # Core SIMD/GPU acceleration
-trueno = { version = "0.67.0", path = "../aprender-compute", package = "aprender-compute", default-features = false }
+trueno = { version = "0.68.0", path = "../aprender-compute", package = "aprender-compute", default-features = false }
 
 # Shared Batuta stack utilities (display traits, formatting)
 batuta-common = { workspace = true }
@@ -29,10 +29,10 @@ base64 = "0.22"
 thiserror = "2.0"
 
 # Optional: ML integration
-aprender = { path = "../aprender-core", version = "0.67.0", package = "aprender-core", optional = true }
+aprender = { path = "../aprender-core", version = "0.68.0", package = "aprender-core", optional = true }
 
 # Optional: Graph integration
-trueno-graph = { version = "0.67.0", path = "../aprender-graph", package = "aprender-graph", default-features = false, optional = true }
+trueno-graph = { version = "0.68.0", path = "../aprender-graph", package = "aprender-graph", default-features = false, optional = true }
 
 # Optional: Database integration
 trueno-db = { workspace = true, optional = true }
diff --git a/crates/facades/Cargo.lock b/crates/facades/Cargo.lock
index bb9209dc9b..792616a5d3 100644
--- a/crates/facades/Cargo.lock
+++ b/crates/facades/Cargo.lock
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "aprender-contracts"
-version = "0.67.0"
+version = "0.68.0"
 dependencies = [
  "aprender-contracts-macros",
  "regex",
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "aprender-contracts-macros"
-version = "0.67.0"
+version = "0.68.0"
 dependencies = [
  "proc-macro2",
  "quote",
diff --git a/crates/facades/provable-contracts-macros/Cargo.toml b/crates/facades/provable-contracts-macros/Cargo.toml
index 882bd2f6fb..c0115ee6b7 100644
--- a/crates/facades/provable-contracts-macros/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/facades/provable-contracts-macros/Cargo.toml
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ path = "src/lib.rs"
 # facade resolves. `scripts/check_facade_compat.sh` fails if this version ever
 # drifts from the aprender workspace version — these manifests are excluded
 # from the root workspace, so `cargo set-version` does NOT reach them.
-upstream = { path = "../../aprender-contracts-macros", version = "0.67.0", package = "aprender-contracts-macros" }
+upstream = { path = "../../aprender-contracts-macros", version = "0.68.0", package = "aprender-contracts-macros" }
 
 [features]
 default = []
diff --git a/crates/facades/provable-contracts/Cargo.toml b/crates/facades/provable-contracts/Cargo.toml
index 071a94fbb6..d85940110e 100644
--- a/crates/facades/provable-contracts/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/facades/provable-contracts/Cargo.toml
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ path = "src/lib.rs"
 # facade resolves. `scripts/check_facade_compat.sh` fails if this version ever
 # drifts from the aprender workspace version — these manifests are excluded
 # from the root workspace, so `cargo set-version` does NOT reach them.
-upstream = { path = "../../aprender-contracts", version = "0.67.0", package = "aprender-contracts" }
+upstream = { path = "../../aprender-contracts", version = "0.68.0", package = "aprender-contracts" }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 # Used by three of the vendored 0.3.1 example programs. They were regular