Merge pull request #2095 from eclipse-ditto/ditto-368

provide Ditto 3.6.8 release notes

documentation/src/main/resources/_data/sidebars/ditto_sidebar.yml

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       - title: Release Notes
         output: web
         folderitems:
+          - title: 3.6.8
+            url: /release_notes_368.html
+            output: web
           - title: 3.6.7
             url: /release_notes_367.html
             output: web

documentation/src/main/resources/pages/ditto/release_notes_368.md

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+---
+title: Release notes 3.6.8
+tags: [release_notes]
+published: true
+keywords: release notes, announcements, changelog
+summary: "Version 3.6.8 of Eclipse Ditto, released on 16.01.2025"
+permalink: release_notes_368.html
+---
+
+This is a bugfix release, no new features since [3.6.7](release_notes_367.html) were added.
+
+## Changelog
+
+Compared to the latest release [3.6.7](release_notes_367.html), the following changes and bugfixes were added.
+
+### Bugfixes
+This is a complete list of the
+[merged pull requests](https://github.com/eclipse-ditto/ditto/pulls?q=is%3Apr+milestone%3A3.6.8).
+
+#### Fix wrongly done validation of removal of desired feature properties
+
+PR [#2093](https://github.com/eclipse-ditto/ditto/pull/2093) fixes that the WoT validation prevented desired properties
+to be removed from a Thing if they were defined as "required" in the Thing Model. This does not make sense for desired 
+properties, as they are all optional by convention.
+
+#### Fix spans for consuming messages to not be the "parent" span for following spans
+
+PR [#2094](https://github.com/eclipse-ditto/ditto/pull/2094) fixes a parent-child hierarchy in the tracing of Ditto 
+regarding consumption of messages, e.g. via Apache Kafka.
+
+#### Fix wrongly calculated path in WoT validation errors
+
+PR [#2091](https://github.com/eclipse-ditto/ditto/pull/2091) fixes that a JsonPointer in WoT validation messages was
+calculated wrongly for PATCHing Thing attributes.