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April and May 2024 Releases

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Bianca Henderson
Bianca Henderson
Conda maintainer 🐍📦
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The April and May 2024 releases included updates to conda and conda-build! 🎉 All of these new releases have been released to both main and conda-forge.

Changes in Conda 24.4.0 and 24.5.0​

To update conda to the latest version, run:

conda install -n base conda=24.5.0

Per conda's release schedule (CEP 8) there is an expected and official release every two months; occasionally however, new features may be added that are significant enough to warrant a separate release in between the bimonthly cadence. The April 2024 release of conda introduces a new enhancement for Windows users. Specifically, the stub executables used for Python entrypoints in packages are now codesigned as a result of pull request #13721.

Amongst other updates, the most recent 24.5.0 version of conda enables MSYS2 packages to utilize upstream installation prefixes, adds support for CEP-15 base_url field in repodata.json, and allows specification of channel URLs using a glob-like wildcard pattern in custom channel settings (e.g., for user with auth handler plugins). See the list below or the release notes for more details.

✨ What's New? ✨​

  • Report which MatchSpec item caused Invalid*Spec exceptions for more informative error messages.
  • Remove setuptools remainings (MANIFEST.in, wheel build dependency) not required since the move to hatch in pull request #12509.
  • Remove and update any imports inside conda that is importing from conda/exports.py.

🔧 What Got Fixed? 🔧​

  • Fix conda notices --json to correctly output JSON.
  • Fix prefix replacement for Windows subdir on Unix.

🌅 What's Marked for Deprecation? 🌅​

  • conda.activate._Activator.add_export_unset_vars (use conda.activate._Activator.get_export_unset_vars instead)
  • conda.activate._Activator.get_scripts_export_unset_vars (use get_scripts_export_unset_vars helper function in test_activate.py instead)
  • conda.activate._Activator._get_path_dirs(extra_library_bin)
  • conda.activate.JSONFormatMixin.get_scripts_export_unset_vars (use conda.activate._Activator.get_export_unset_vars instead)
  • conda.auxlib.collection.make_immutable (use frozendict.deepfreeze instead)
  • conda.gateways.logging.trace (use Logger.log(conda.common.constants.TRACE, msg) instead)
  • conda.plan as an entrypoint
  • conda.plan.add_defaults_to_specs
  • conda.plan.add_unlink
  • conda.plan.display_actions
  • conda.plan.execute_actions
  • conda.plan.execute_instructions
  • conda.plan.execute_plan
  • conda.plan._get_best_prec_match (use conda.misc._get_best_prec_match instead)
  • conda.plan.get_blank_actions
  • conda.plan._handle_menuinst
  • conda.plan._inject_UNLINKLINKTRANSACTION
  • conda.plan.install_actions
  • conda.plan._plan_from_actions
  • conda.plan.print_dists
  • conda.plan.revert_actions (use conda.cli.install.revert_actions instead)
  • conda.plan._update_old_plan
  • conda._vendor.frozendict (use frozendict instead)
  • conda create --mkdir command
  • conda install --mkdir (use conda create instead)

📄 What's New in Documentation? 📄​

  • Add type hints and doc strings to conda.core.index.

Changes in Conda-Build 24.5.0​

To update conda-build, run:

conda install -n base conda-build=24.5.0

The May 2024 release of conda-build adds conda_build.metadata._split_line_selector to cache line-selector parsed text, exclusively fetches lfs files for specific git_ref, and enables CodSpeed benchmarks for select tests. See the list below or the release notes for more details.

✨ What's New? ✨​

  • Add conda_build.render.open_recipe context manager to detect the recipe type (file/meta.yaml, directory/recipe, or tarball/package) and properly handling any exit/close behavior.
  • For Windows users, the stub executables used for Python entrypoints in packages are now codesigned.
  • Require conda >=23.7.0.

🔧 What Got Fixed? 🔧​

  • Fix all CLI arguments to properly initialize conda.base.context.context with parsed arguments. Fixes issue with arguments not being processed (e.g., --override-channels was previously ignored).

🌅 What's Marked for Deprecation? 🌅​

  • Postpone conda_build.index.channel_data deprecation.

The following code was marked as deprecated:

  • conda_build.config.Config.override_channels (defer to conda.base.context.context.channels instead)
  • conda_build.config.noarch_python_build_age_default
  • conda_build.conda_interface.add_parser_channels (use conda.cli.helpers.add_parser_channels instead)
  • conda_build.conda_interface.add_parser_prefix (use conda.cli.helpers.add_parser_prefix instead)
  • conda_build.conda_interface.ArgumentParser (use conda.cli.conda_argparse.ArgumentParser instead)
  • conda_build.conda_interface.binstar_upload constant (use conda.base.context.context.binstar_upload instead)
  • conda_build.conda_interface.cc_conda_build (use conda.base.context.context.conda_build instead)
  • conda_build.conda_interface.cc_platform constant (use conda.base.context.context.platform instead)
  • conda_build.conda_interface.Channel (use conda.models.channel.Channel instead)
  • conda_build.conda_interface.Completer
  • conda_build.conda_interface.configparser module (use configparser instead)
  • conda_build.conda_interface.CondaError class (use conda.exceptions.CondaError instead)
  • conda_build.conda_interface.CondaHTTPError class (use conda.exceptions.CondaHTTPError instead)
  • conda_build.conda_interface.CondaSession (use conda.gateways.connection.session.CondaSession instead)
  • conda_build.conda_interface.CONDA_VERSION constant (use conda.__version__ instead)
  • conda_build.conda_interface.context singleton (use conda.base.context.context instead)
  • conda_build.conda_interface.create_default_packages constant (use conda.base.context.context.create_default_packages instead)
  • conda_build.conda_interface.default_python constant (use conda.base.context.context.default_python instead)
  • conda_build.conda_interface.determine_target_prefix function (use conda.base.context.determine_target_prefix instead)
  • conda_build.conda_interface.download (use conda.gateways.connection.download.download instead)
  • conda_build.conda_interface.env_path_backup_var_exists
  • conda_build.conda_interface.envs_dirs constant (use conda.base.context.context.envs_dirs instead)
  • conda_build.conda_interface.EntityEncoder (use conda.auxlib.entity.EntityEncoder instead)
  • conda_build.conda_interface.FileMode (use conda.models.enums.FileMode instead)
  • conda_build.conda_interface.get_conda_build_local_url class (use conda.models.channel.get_conda_build_local_url instead)
  • conda_build.conda_interface.get_conda_channel function (use conda.models.channel.Channel.from_value instead)
  • conda_build.conda_interface.get_prefix function (use conda.base.context.context.target_prefix instead)
  • conda_build.conda_interface.get_rc_urls function (use conda.base.context.context.channels instead)
  • conda_build.conda_interface.human_bytes (use conda.utils.human_bytes instead)
  • conda_build.conda_interface.import_module function (use importlib.import_module instead)
  • conda_build.conda_interface.input (use input instead)
  • conda_build.conda_interface.InstalledPackages
  • conda_build.conda_interface.lchmod (use conda.gateways.disk.link.lchmod instead)
  • conda_build.conda_interface.LinkError class (use conda.exceptions.LinkError instead)
  • conda_build.conda_interface.LockError class (use conda.exceptions.LockError instead)
  • conda_build.conda_interface.MatchSpec (use conda.models.match_spec.MatchSpec instead)
  • conda_build.conda_interface.non_x86_linux_machines constant (use conda.base.context.non_x86_machines instead)
  • conda_build.conda_interface.NoPackagesFound (use conda.exceptions.ResolvePackageNotFound instead)
  • conda_build.conda_interface.NoPackagesFoundError class (use conda.exceptions.NoPackagesFoundError instead)
  • conda_build.conda_interface.normalized_version (use conda.models.version.normalized_version instead)
  • conda_build.conda_interface.os module (use os instead)
  • conda_build.conda_interface.PackageRecord (use conda.models.records.PackageRecord instead)
  • conda_build.conda_interface.PaddingError class (use conda.exceptions.PaddingError instead)
  • conda_build.conda_interface.partial function (use functools.partial instead)
  • conda_build.conda_interface.PathType (use conda.models.enums.PathType instead)
  • conda_build.conda_interface.pkgs_dirs constant (use conda.base.context.context.pkgs_dirs instead)
  • conda_build.conda_interface.prefix_placeholder (use conda.base.constants.PREFIX_PLACEHOLDER instead)
  • conda_build.conda_interface.ProgressiveFetchExtract class (use conda.core.package_cache.ProgressiveFetchExtract instead)
  • conda_build.conda_interface.reset_context function (use conda.base.context.reset_context instead)
  • conda_build.conda_interface.Resolve (use conda.resolve.Resolve instead)
  • conda_build.conda_interface.rm_rf (use conda_build.utils.rm_rf instead)
  • conda_build.conda_interface.root_dir constant (use conda.base.context.context.root_prefix instead)
  • conda_build.conda_interface.root_writable constant (use conda.base.context.context.root_writable instead)
  • conda_build.conda_interface.spec_from_line (use conda.cli.common.spec_from_line instead)
  • conda_build.conda_interface.specs_from_args (use conda.cli.common.specs_from_args instead)
  • conda_build.conda_interface.specs_from_url (use conda.cli.common.specs_from_url instead)
  • conda_build.conda_interface.StringIO (use io.StringIO instead)
  • conda_build.conda_interface.subdir constant (use conda.base.context.context.subdir instead)
  • conda_build.conda_interface.symlink_conda
  • conda_build.conda_interface.TempDirectory (use conda.gateways.disk.create.TemporaryDirectory instead)
  • conda_build.conda_interface.TmpDownload (use conda.gateways.connection.download.TmpDownload instead)
  • conda_build.conda_interface.toposort (use conda.common.toposort._toposort instead)
  • conda_build.conda_interface.unix_path_to_win (use conda.utils.unix_path_to_win instead)
  • conda_build.conda_interface.Unsatisfiable (use conda.exceptions.UnsatisfiableError instead)
  • conda_build.conda_interface.untracked (use conda.misc.untracked instead)
  • conda_build.conda_interface.UnsatisfiableError class (use conda.exceptions.UnsatisfiableError instead)
  • conda_build.conda_interface.url_path (use conda.utils.url_path instead)
  • conda_build.conda_interface.VersionOrder (use conda.models.version.VersionOrder instead)
  • conda_build.conda_interface.walk_prefix (use conda.misc.walk_prefix instead)
  • conda_build.conda_interface.win_path_to_unix (use conda.common.path.win_path_to_unix instead)
  • conda_build.utils.HashableDict (use frozendict.deepfreeze instead)
  • conda_build.utils._convert_lists_to_sets (use frozendict.deepfreeze instead)
  • conda_build.utils.represent_hashabledict (use frozendict.deepfreeze instead)
  • conda_build.variants.get_vars(loop_only)

The following code was removed:

  • conda_build.api.get_output_file_path (use conda_build.api.get_output_file_paths instead)
  • conda_build.bdist_conda
  • conda_build.build.have_prefix_files
  • conda_build.conda_interface.get_index (use conda.core.index.get_index instead)
  • conda_build.conda_interface.get_version_from_git_tag (use conda_build.environ.get_version_from_git_tag instead)
  • conda_build.conda_interface.handle_proxy_407 Handled by conda.gateways.connection.session.CondaSession
  • conda_build.conda_interface.hashsum_file (use conda.gateways.disk.read.compute_sum instead)
  • conda_build.conda_interface.md5_file (use conda.gateways.disk.read.compute_sum(path, 'md5') instead)
  • conda_build.environ._load_all_json
  • conda_build.environ._load_json
  • conda_build.environ.cached_actions
  • conda_build.environ.Environment (use conda.core.prefix_data.PrefixData instead)
  • conda_build.environ.InvalidEnvironment
  • conda_build.environ.LINK_ACTION
  • conda_build.environ.PREFIX_ACTION
  • conda_build.index._apply_instructions (use conda_index._apply_instructions instead)
  • conda_build.index.DummyExecutor
  • conda_build.index.LOCK_TIMEOUT_SECS
  • conda_build.index.LOCKFILE_NAME
  • conda_build.index.MAX_THREADS_DEFAULT

We ❤️ Our Community​

Altogether, we had 6 new contributors this release cycle; thank you to all of our open source community members for helping making these improvements possible.

If you have ideas or want to help improve any of the conda community projects, we love to see new (and returning) contributors! 😄