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Navigating Change in Conda-Build Recipe Formats: Balancing Legacy and Innovation

Β· 3 min read
Ken Odegard
Conda Maintainer
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The recent approval of a new recipe format (v1) by the Conda Steering Council via CEP-13 and CEP-14 marks an important milestone in the evolution of package management in the conda ecosystem. While the community embraces the potential improvements that come with the new format, we acknowledge that the v1 recipe format is still under development and is being prototyped in rattler-build. Consequently, the v0 recipe format remains widely in use, emphasizing the need to balance innovation with support for legacy systems.

Conda is moving to Mastodon & LinkedIn

Β· One min read
Dave Clements
Open Source Community Manager

Conda is moving our social media presence from Twitter/X to Mastodon and LinkedIn at the start of 2024. It's past time to move into spaces that are welcoming and more in line with our community values.

Going forward, you can find us at

If you are on either platform then please follow and link to those accounts, or, just use the #conda hashtag.

We won't close the Twitter account. We will update it to say it is no longer active, and point users to the conda communities on Mastodon and LinkedIn. If you are active on Twitter, we encourage you to also use the #conda hashtag.

We hope to see you on Mastodon and LinkedIn in 2024!

PS: conda-forge is discussing making the same move.

November 2023 Releases

Β· 6 min read
Ken Odegard
Conda Maintainer

The November 2023 releases included updates to three conda community projects: conda, conda-build, and conda-libmamba-solver! πŸŽ‰ Each of these have been released to both main and conda-forge.

Changes in Conda 23.11.0​

To update conda, run:

conda install -n base conda=23.11.0

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New menuinst v2 support!

Conda 23.10.0: libmamba is now the default solver

Β· 3 min read
Jaime RodrΓ­guez-Guerra
Steering council member
Jannis Leidel
Steering council member

With this 23.10.0 release we are changing the default solver of conda to conda-libmamba-solver! πŸ₯³ πŸš€β€‹

libmamba builds on libsolv, a much faster solver from openSUSE. The previous "classic" solver is based on pycosat/Picosat and will remain part of conda for the foreseeable future. A fallback is possible and available.