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July 2025 Releases

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Travis Hathaway
Travis Hathaway
Conda maintainer 👷🔧
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The July 2025 releases included updates to conda, conda-build, constructor, and menuinst! 🎉 All of these have been released to both defaults and conda-forge channels.

Changes in conda 25.7.0​

To update conda to the latest version, run:

conda install -n base conda=25.7.0

Notable Changes:

  • Enhanced conda export command now supports plugin-based architecture with multiple output formats: yaml, json, and txt.
  • Add automatic export format detection based on filename patterns (e.g., environment.yaml, explicit.txt, requirements.txt)
  • Add "environment consistency" health check to conda doctor.

Check out the full changelog for more: 25.7.0

Changes in conda-build 25.7.0​

To update conda-build to the latest version, run:

conda install -n base conda-build=25.7.0

Notable Changes:

No major changes to report. We just removed some deprecated code according to our deprecation schedule.

Check out the full changelog for more: 25.7.0

Changes in constructor 3.12.2​

To update constructor to the latest version, run:

conda install -n base constructor=3.12.2

Notable Changes:

  • Added support for conda init --condabin, mamba's mirrored channels, and the faster onedir variant of conda-standalone.
  • EXE installers: fixed a permission issue for all-user installations for noarch package entry points.

Check out the full changelog for more:

Changes in menuinst 2.3.1​

To update menuinst to the latest version, run:

conda install -n base menuinst=2.3.1

Notable Changes:

  • Bug fix: shortcuts are now only created for platforms explicitly enabled in the metadata.
  • Added support for the new activation behavior of conda on Windows.

Check out the full changelog for more:

  • 2.3.0 (full release notes with new features)
  • 2.3.1 (patch release)

We ❤️ Our Community​

Altogether, we had 2 new contributors this release cycle; thank you to all of our open source community members for helping making these improvements possible.