# \[ANN\] Numba 0.68.1

**URL:** <https://numba.discourse.group/t/ann-numba-0-68-1/3283>\
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**Created:** [October 28, 2026, 5:07am UTC](https://numba.discourse.group/t/ann-numba-0-68-1/3283 "2026-10-28T05:07:55Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 28, 2026, 5:07am UTC](https://numba.discourse.group/t/ann-numba-0-68-1/3283/1 "2026-10-28T05:07:55Z")

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Hi all,

I’m happy to announce the availability of Numba 0.68.1.

This patch release fixes two performance regressions (`np.sum` and fancy indexing), aligns the accumulator dtypes of reductions with NumPy and fixes caching of functions imported from a zip archive on Windows.

**Numba 0.68.1**

Install from [PyPI.org](https://pypi.org/project/numba/0.68.1/):

```bash
pip install numba==0.68.1

```

Install from [anaconda.org](https://anaconda.org/numba/numba):

```bash
conda install -c numba numba=0.68.1

```

Release notes: [0.68.1](https://numba.readthedocs.io/en/0.68.1/release/0.68.1-notes.html)

No changes to llvmlite.

Please upgrade and report any issues on this thread or the [issue tracker](https://github.com/numba/numba/issues). Thank you to everyone who reported these issues and helped with the fixes!