v26.02.00

What's Changed

🛠️ Improvements

• Enable merge barriers by @KyleFromNVIDIA in #137
• Bump to dask==2025.12.0 by @TomAugspurger in #138
• Use SPDX license identifiers in pyproject.toml, bump build dependency floors by @jameslamb in #139
• use rapids-dependency-file-generator, update pre-commit hooks by @jameslamb in #140
• Update to dask==2026.1.1 by @TomAugspurger in #142
• fix(build): build package on merge to release/* branch by @gforsyth in #144
• Update Conda recipe's Dask to 2026.1.1 by @jakirkham in #147

Full Changelog: v26.02.00a...v26.02.00