Release notes

This information is drawn from the GitHub conda project changelog: https://github.com/conda/conda/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md

22.11.1 (2022-12-06)

Bug fixes

Restore default virtual package specs as in 22.9.0 (#12148)
- re-add __unix/__win packages
- restore __archspec version/build string composition

Other

Skip test suite for non-code changes. (#12141)

Contributors

@LtDan33
@jezdez
@kenodegard
@mbargull
@travishathaway

22.11.0 (2022-11-23)

Enhancements

Add LD_PRELOAD to env variable list. (#10665)
Improve CLI warning about updating conda. (#11300)
Conda’s initialize block in the user’s profiles will check whether the conda executable exists before calling the conda hook. (#11374)
Switch to tqdm as a real dependency. (#12005)
Add a new plugin mechanism. (#11435)
Add an informative message if explicit install fails due to requested packages not being in the cache. (#11591)
Download and extract packages in parallel. Greatly speeds up package downloads when latency is high. Controlled by the new fetch_threads config parameter, defaulting to 5 parallel downloads. Thanks @shuges-uk for reporting. (#11841)
Add a new plugin hook for virtual packages and convert existing code for virtual packages (from index.py) into plugins. (#11854)
Require ruamel.yaml. (#11868, #11837)
Stop using toolz.accumulate. (#12020)
Stop using toolz.groupby. (#11913)
Remove vendored six package. (#11979)
Add the ability to extend the solver backends with the conda_solvers plugin hook. (#11993)
Stop using toolz.functoolz.excepts. (#12016)
Stop using toolz.itertoolz.concatv. (#12020)
Also try UTF16 and UTF32 encodings when replacing the prefix. (#9946)

Bug fixes

conda env update would ask for user input and hang when working with pip installs of git repos and the repo was previously checked out. Tell pip not to ask for user input for that case. (#11818)
Fix for conda update and conda install issues related to channel notices. (#11852)
Signature verification printed None when disabled, changes default metadata_signature_status to an empty string instead. (#11944)
Fix importlib warnings when importing conda.cli.python_api on python=3.10. (#11975)
Several user facing MatchSpec crashes were identified by fuzzing efforts. (#11999)
Apply minimal fixes to deal with these (and similar) crashes. (#12014)
Prevent conda from using /bin/sh + exec trick for its own entry point, which drops $PS1 on some shells (#11885, #11893 via #12043).
Handle CTRL+C during package downloading more gracefully. (#12056)
Prefer the outer name when a MatchSpec specifies a package’s name twice package-name[name=package-name] (#12062)

Deprecations

Add a pending deprecation warning for when importing tqdm from conda._vendor. (#12005)
Drop ruamel_yaml and ruamel_yaml_conda in favor of ruamel.yaml. (#11837)
context.experimental_solver is now marked for pending deprecation. It is replaced by context.solver. The same applies to the --experimental-solver flag, the CONDA_EXPERIMENTAL_SOLVER environment variable, and the ExperimentalSolverChoice enum, which will be replaced by --solver, EXPERIMENTAL_SOLVER and SolverChoice, respectively. (#11889)
Mark context.conda_private as pending deprecation. (#12101)

Docs

Add corresponding documentation for the new plugins mechanism. (#11435)
Update conda cheatsheet for the 4.14.0 release. The cheatsheet now includes an example for conda rename. (#11768)
Document conda-build package format v2, also known as the .conda-format. (#11881)
Remove allow_other_channels config option from documentation, as the option no longer exists. (#11866)
Fix bad URL to “Introduction to conda for Data Scientists” course in conda docs. (#9782)

Other

Add a comment to the code that explains why .bashrc is modified on Linux and .bash_profile is modified on Windows/macOS when executing conda init. (#11849)
Add --mach and --arch options to dev/start. (#11851)
Remove encoding pragma in file headers, as it’s not needed in Python 3 anymore. (#11880)
Refactor conda init SHELLS as argparse choices. (#11897)
Drop pragma fixes from pre-commit checks. (#11909)
Add pyupgrade to pre-commit checks. This change affects many files. Existing pull requests may need to be updated, rebased, or merged to address conflicts. (#11909)
Add aarch64 and ppc64le as additional CI platforms for smoke testing. (#11911)
Serve package files needed for testing using local server. (#12024)
Update canary builds to guarantee builds for the commits that trigger workflow. (#12040)

Contributors

@arq0017 made their first contribution in https://github.com/conda/conda/pull/11810
@beeankha
@conda-bot
@dbast
@dholth
@erykoff
@consideRatio made their first contribution in https://github.com/conda/conda/pull/12028
@jaimergp
@jezdez
@kathatherine
@kenodegard
@ForgottenProgramme made their first contribution in https://github.com/conda/conda/pull/11926
@hmaarrfk made their first contribution in https://github.com/conda/conda/pull/9946
@NikhilRaverkar made their first contribution in https://github.com/conda/conda/pull/11842
@pavelzw made their first contribution in https://github.com/conda/conda/pull/11849
@pkmooreanaconda made their first contribution in https://github.com/conda/conda/pull/12014
@fragmede made their first contribution in https://github.com/conda/conda/pull/11818
@SatyamVyas04 made their first contribution in https://github.com/conda/conda/pull/11870
@timhoffm
@travishathaway
@dependabot made their first contribution in https://github.com/conda/conda/pull/11965
@pre-commit-ci[bot]
@wulmer

22.9.0 (2022-09-14)

Special announcement

If you have been following the conda project previously, you will notice a change in our version number for this release. We have officially switched to the CalVer versioning system as agreed upon in CEP 8 (Conda Enhancement Proposal).

Please read that CEP for more information, but here is a quick synopsis. We hope that this versioning system and our release schedule will help make our releases more predictable and transparent to the community going forward. We are now committed to making at least one release every two months, but keep in mind that we can (and most likely will) be making minor version releases within this window.

Enhancements

Replace vendored toolz with toolz dependency. (#11589, #11700)
Update bundled Python launchers for Windows (conda/shell/cli-*.exe) to match the ones found in conda-build. (#11676)
Add win-arm64 as a known platform (subdir). (#11778)

Bug fixes

Remove extra prefix injection related to the shell interface breaking conda run. (#11666)
Better support for shebang instructions in prefixes with spaces. (#11676)
Fix noarch entry points in Unicode-containing prefixes on Windows. (#11694)
Ensure that exceptions that are raised show up properly instead of resulting in a blank [y/N] prompt. (#11746)

Deprecations

Mark conda._vendor.toolz as pending deprecation. (#11704)
Removes vendored version of urllib3. (#11705)

Docs

Added conda capitalization standards to CONTRIBUTING file. (#11712)

Other

Add arm64 support to development script . ./dev/start. (#11752)
Update canary-release version to resolve canary build issue. (#11761)
Renamed canary recipe from conda.recipe to recipe. (#11774)

Contributors

@beeankha
@chenghlee
@conda-bot
@dholth
@isuruf
@jaimergp
@jezdez
@razzlestorm made their first contribution in https://github.com/conda/conda/pull/11736
@jakirkham
@kathatherine
@kenodegard
@scdub made their first contribution in https://github.com/conda/conda/pull/11816
@travishathaway
@pre-commit-ci[bot]

4.14.0 (2022-08-02)

Enhancements

Only star activated environment in conda info --envs/conda env list. (#10764)
Adds new sub-command, conda notices, for retrieving channel notices. (#11462)
Notices will be intermittently shown after running, install, create, update, env create or env update. New notices will only be shown once. (#11462)
Implementation of a new rename subcommand. (#11496)
Split SSLError from HTTPError to help resolve HTTP 000 errors. (#11564)
Include the invalid package name in the error message. (#11601)
Bump requests version (>=2.20.1) and drop monkeypatching. (#11643)
Rename whitelist_channels to allowlist_channels. (#11647)
Always mention channel when notifying about a new conda update. (#11671)

Bug fixes

Correct a misleading conda --help error message. (#11625)
Fix support for CUDA version detection on WSL2. (#11626)
Fixed the bug when providing empty environment.yml to conda env create command. (#11556, #11630)
Fix MD5 hash generation for FIPS-enabled systems. (#11658)
Fixed TypeError encountered when logging is set to DEBUG and the package’s JSON cannot be read. (#11679)

Deprecations

conda.cli.common.ensure_name_or_prefix is pending deprecation in a future release. (#11490)
Mark conda.lock as pending deprecation. (#11571)
Remove lgtm.com config. (#11572)
Remove Python 2.7 conda.common.url.is_ipv6_address_win_py27 implementation. (#11573)
Remove redundant conda.resolve.dashlist definition. (#11578)
Mark conda_env.cli.common.get_prefix and conda.base.context.get_prefix as pending deprecation in favor of conda.base.context.determine_target_prefix. (#11594)
Mark conda_env.cli.common.stdout_json as pending deprecation in favor of conda.cli.common.stdout_json. (#11595)
Mark conda_env.cli.common.find_prefix_name as pending deprecation. (#11596)
Mark conda.auxlib.decorators.memoize as pending deprecation in favor of functools.lru_cache. (#11597)
Mark conda.exports.memoized as pending deprecation in favor of functools.lru_cache. (#11597)
Mark conda.exports.handle_proxy_407 as pending deprecation. (#11597)
Refactor conda.activate._Activator.get_export_unset_vars to use **kwargs instead of OrderedDict. (#11649)
Mark conda.another_to_unicode as pending deprecation. (#11678)

Docs

Corresponding documentation of notices subcommand. (#11462)
Corresponding documentation of rename subcommand. (#11496)
Correct docs URL to https://docs.conda.io. (#11508)
Updated the list of environment variables that can now expand in the Use Condarc section. (#11514)
Include notice that the “All Users” installation option in the Anaconda Installer is no longer available due to security concerns. (#11528)
Update conda-zsh-completeion link. (#11541)
Missing pip as a dependency when including a pip-installed dependency. (#11543)
Convert README.rst to README.md. (#11544)
Updated docs and CLI help to include information on conda init arguments. (#11574)
Added docs for writing integration tests. (#11604)
Updated conda env create CLI documentation description and examples to be more helpful. (#11611)

Other

Display tests summary in CI. (#11558)
Update Dockerfile and ci-images.yml flow to build multi arch images. (#11560)
Rename master branch to main. (#11570)

Contributors

@drewja made their first contribution in #11614
@beeankha
@topherocity made their first contribution in #11658
@conda-bot
@dandv made their first contribution in #11636
@dbast
@dholth
@deepyaman made their first contribution in #11598
@dogukanteber made their first contribution in #11556/#11630
@jaimergp
@kathatherine
@kenodegard
@nps1ngh made their first contribution in #10764
@pseudoyim made their first contribution in #11528
@SamStudio8 made their first contribution in #11679
@SamuelWN made their first contribution in #11543
@spencermathews made their first contribution in #11508
@timgates42
@timhoffm made their first contribution in #11601
@travishathaway
@esc
@pre-commit-ci[bot]

4.13.0 (2022-05-19)

Enhancements

Introducing conda clean --logfiles to remove logfiles generated by conda-libmamba-solver. (#11387)
Add the solver name and version to the user-agent. (#11415, #11455)
Attempt parsing HTTP errors as a JSON and extract error details. If present, prefer these details instead of those hard-coded. (#11440)

Bug fixes

Fix inconsistencies with conda clean --dryrun (#11385)
Standardize tarball & package finding in conda clean (#11386, #11391)
Fix escape_channel_url logic on Windows (#11416)
Use ‘Accept’ header, not ‘Content-Type’ in GET header (#11446)
Allow extended user-agent collection to fail but log the exception (#11455)

Deprecations

Removing deprecated conda.cli.activate. Originally deprecated in conda 4.6.0 in May 2018. (#11309)
Removing deprecated conda.compat. Originally deprecated in conda 4.6.0 in May 2018. (#11322)
Removing deprecated conda.install. Originally deprecated in conda 4.6.0 in May 2018. (#11323)
Removing deprecated conda.cli.main_help. Originally deprecated in conda 4.6.0 in May 2018. (#11325)
Removed unused conda.auxlib.configuration. (#11349)
Removed unused conda.auxlib.crypt. (#11349)
Removed unused conda.auxlib.deprecation. (#11349)
Removed unused conda.auxlib.factory. (#11349)
Removed minimally used conda.auxlib.path. (#11349)
Removed conda.exports.CrossPlatformStLink, a Windows Python <3.2 fix for os.lstat.st_nlink. (#11351)
Remove Python 2.7 and other legacy code (#11364)
conda run --live-stream aliases conda run --no-capture-output. (#11422)
Removes unused exceptions. (#11424)
Combines conda_env.exceptions with conda.exceptions. (#11425)
Drop Python 3.6 support. (#11453)
Remove outdated test test_init_dev_and_NoBaseEnvironmentError (#11469)

Docs

Initial implementation of deep dive docs (#11059)
Correction of RegisterPython description in Windows Installer arguments. (#11312)
Added autodoc documentation for conda compare. (#11336)
Remove duplicated instruction in manage-python.rst (#11381)
Updated conda cheatsheet. (#11443)
Fix typos throughout the codebase (#11448)
Fix conda activate example (#11471)
Updated conda 4.12 cheatsheet with new anaconda distribution version (#11479)

Other

Add Python 3.10 as a test target. (#10992)
Replace custom conda._vendor with vendoring (#11290)
Replace conda.auxlib.collection.frozendict with vendored frozendict (#11398)
Reorganize and new tests for conda.cli.main_clean (#11360)
Removing vendored usage of urllib3 and instead implementing our own wrapper around std. lib urllib (#11373)
Bump vendored py-cpuinfo version 4.0.0 → 8.0.0. (#11393)
Add informational Codecov status checks (#11400)

Contributors

@beeankha made their first contribution in #11469
@ChrisPanopoulos made their first contribution in #11312
@conda-bot
@dholth
@jaimergp
@jezdez
@kathatherine made their first contribution in #11443
@kenodegard
@kianmeng made their first contribution in #11448
@simon9500 made their first contribution in #11381
@thomasrockhu-codecov made their first contribution in #11400
@travishathaway made their first contribution in #11373
@pre-commit-ci[bot]

4.12.0 (2022-03-08)

Enhancements

Add support for libmamba integrations. (#11193)

This is a new experimental and opt-in feature that allows use of the new conda-libmamba-solver for an improved user experience, based on the libmamba community project - the library version of the mamba package manager.

Please follow these steps to try out the new libmamba solver integration:
1. Make sure you have conda-libmamba-solver installed in your conda base environment.
2. Try out the solver using the --experimental-solver=libmamba command line option.
  
  E.g. with a dry-run to install the scipy package:
```
conda create -n demo scipy --dry-run --experimental-solver=libmamba
```
  Or install in an activated conda environment:
```
conda activate my-environment
conda install scipy --experimental-solver=libmamba
```
Make sure that conda env update -f sets env vars from the referenced yaml file. (#10652)
Improve command line argument quoting, especially for conda run. (#11189)
Allow conda run to work in read-only environments. (#11215)
Add support for prelink_message. (#11123)
Added conda.CONDA_SOURCE_ROOT. (#11182)

Bug fixes

Refactored conda.utils.ensure_comspec_set into conda.utils.get_comspec. (#11168)
Refactored conda.cli.common.is_valid_prefix into conda.cli.common.validate_prefix. (#11172)
Instantiate separate S3 session for thread-safety. (#11038)
Change overly verbose info log to debug. (#11260)
Remove five.py and update metaclass definitions. (#11267)
Remove unnecessary conditional in setup.py (#11013)

Docs

Clarify on AIE messaging in download.rst. (#11221)
Fix conda environment variable echo, update example versions. (#11237)
Fixed link in docs. (#11268)
Update profile examples. (#11278)
Fix typos. (#11070)
Document conda run command. (#11299)

Other

Added macOS to continuous integration. (#10875)
Added ability to build per-pullrequest review builds. (#11135)
Improved subprocess handling on Windows. (#11179)
Add CONDA_SOURCE_ROOT env var. (#11182)
Automatically check copyright/license disclaimer & encoding pragma. (#11183)
Development environment per Python version. (#11233)
Add concurrency group to cancel GHA runs on repeated pushes to branch/PR. (#11258)
Only run GHAs on non-forks. (#11265)

Contributors

@opoplawski
@FaustinCarter
@jaimergp
@rhoule-anaconda
@jezdez
@hajapy
@erykoff
@uwuvalon
@kenodegard
@manics
@NaincyKumariKnoldus
@autotmp
@yuvipanda
@astrojuanlu
@marcelotrevisani

4.11.0 (2021-11-22)

Enhancements

Allow channel_alias to interpolate environment variables.
Support running conda with PyPy on Windows.
Add ability to add, append and prepend to sequence values when using the conda config subcommand.
Support Python 3.10 in version parser.
Add XDG_CONFIG_HOME to the conda search path following the XDG Base Directory Specification (XDGBDS).

Bug fixes

Fix the PowerShell activator to not show an error when unsetting environment variables.
Remove superfluous eval statements in fish shell integration.
Indent the conda fish integration file using fish_indent.
Fix handling of environment variables containing equal signs (=).
Handle permission errors when listing all known prefixes.
Catch Unicode decoding errors when parsing conda-meta files.
Fix handling write errors when trying to create package cache or env directories.

Docs

Update path of conda repo in RHEL based systems to /etc/yum.repos.d/conda.repo.
Fix the advanced pip example to stop using the now invalid file: prefix.
Minor docs cleanup and adding Code of Conduct.
Add auto-built architecture documentation for conda based on the C4 Model. See the conda documentation for more information.
Expand the contributing documentation with a section about static code analysis and code linting.
Add developer guide section to the documentation, including a conda architecture overview.
Stop referring to updating anaconda when conda update fails with an error.

Other

Build Docker images periodically on GitHub Actions for the continuous integration testing on Linux, storing them on GitHub Packages’s registry for reduced latency and cost when using Docker Hub.
Simplify the Linux GitHub actions workflows by combining used shell scripts.
Add periodic GitHub Actions workflow to review old issues in the conda issue tracker and mark them as stale if no feedback is provided in a sensible amount of time, eventually closing them.
Add periodic GitHub Actions workflow to lock the comment threads of old issues and pull requests in the conda GitHub repository to surface regressions with new issues instead.
Refactor test suite to use more GitHub Actions runners in parallel, reducing total run time by 50%.
Switched the issue tracker to use forms with additional questions for bug reporters to help in ticket triage.
Add and automatically run pre-commit as part of the CI system to improve the code quality continuously and raise issues in contributed patches early on.

The used code linters are: flake8, pylint and bandit.

The Python code formatter black is used as well but is only enforced on changed code in a commit and not to the whole code base at once.
Automatically build the conda package upon the successful merge into the master branch and upload it to the conda-canary channel on anaconda.org.

To try conda out simply run:
```
conda install -c conda-canary/label/dev conda
```
Automate adding new issues to public GitHub project board to facilitate issue triage.
Update GitHub issue and pull request labels to be more consistent.
Start using rever for release management.
(preview) Enable one-click gitpod and GitHub Codespaces setup for Linux development.

Contributors

Benjamin Bertrand
Chawye Hsu
Cheng H. Lee
Dan Meador
Daniel Bast
Daniel Holth
Gregor Kržmanc
Hsin-Hsiang Peng
Ilan Cosman
Isuru Fernando
Jaime Rodríguez-Guerra
Jan-Benedikt Jagusch
Jannis Leidel
John Flavin
Jonas Haag
Ken Odegard
Kfir Zvi
Mervin Fansler
bfis
mkincaid
pre-commit CI

4.10.3 (2021-06-29)

Bug fixes

Reverts “Don’t create an unused S3 client at import time (#10516)” in 4.10.2 that introduced a regression for users using S3 based channels. (#10756)

4.10.2 (2021-06-25)

Enhancements

Add --dry-run option to conda env create (#10635)
Print warning about pip-installed dependencies only once (#10638)
Explicit install now respects --download-only flag (#10688)
Bump vendored tqdm version (#10721)

Bug fixes

Fix changeps1 handling for PowerShell (#10624)
Handle unbound $PS1 so sh activation does not fail with set -u (#10701)
Fix sh activation so $PATH is properly restored on errors (#10631)
Fix -c option handling so defaults channel is not always re-added (#10735)
Fix artifact verification-related warnings and errors (#10627, #10677)
Fix log level used in conda/core/prefix_data.py (#9998)
Fix log level used when fetching artifact verification metadata (#10621)
Don’t create an unused S3 client at import time (#10516)
Don’t load binstar_client until needed (#10692)
Reflect dropping of older Python versions in setup.py (#10642)

Docs

Merge release notes and changelog to reduce maintenance burden (#10745)
Add mentions to PyPy, Anaconda terms of service (#10329, #10712)
Update Python versions in examples (#10329, #10744)
Update install macOS instructions (#10728)

Contributors

@AlbertDeFusco
@awwad
@casperdcl
@cgranade
@chenghlee
@ColemanTom
@dan-hook
@dbast
@ericpre
@HedgehogCode
@jamesp
@jezdez
@johnhany97
@lightmare
@mattip
@maxerbubba
@mrakitin
@stinos
@thermokarst

4.10.1 (2021-04-12)

Bug fixes

Fix version detection for __linux virtual package (#10599)
Fix import from conda_content_trust (#10589)
Fix how URL for verification metadata files are constructed (#10617)
Partially fix profile $PATH setup on MSYS2 (#10459)
Remove .empty directory even when rsync is not installed (#10331)

Contributors

@awwad
@chenghlee
@codepage949
@niklasholm

4.10.0 (2021-03-30)

NOTE: This release formally drops support for Python 2.7 and Python < 3.6.

Enhancements

Add pilot support for metadata signatures and verification (#10578)
Add __linux virtual package (#10552, #10561)
Support nested keys when using conda config --get (#10447, #10572)
Support installing default packages when using conda env create (#10530)
Support HTTP sources for conda env update -f (#10536)
Make macOS code signing operations less verbose (#10372)

Bug fixes

Fix conda search crashing on Python 3.9 (#10542)
Allow {channel}::pip to satisfy pip requirements (#10550)
Support {host}:{port} specifications in environment YAML files (#10417)
Fall back to system .condarc if user .condarc is absent (#10479)
Try UTF-16 if UTF-8 fails when reading environment YAML files (#10356)
Properly parse Python version >= 3.10 (#10478)
Fix zsh initialization when $ZDOTDIR is defined (#10413)
Fix path handling for csh (#10410)
Fix setup.py requirement for vendored ruamel_yaml_conda (#10441)
Fix errors when pickling vendored auxlib objects (#10386)

Docs

Document the __unix and __windows virtual packages (#10511)
Update list of supported and default versions of Python (#10531)
Favor using pip instead of setup.py when setting up CI (#10308)

Miscellaneous

CI: drop Python 2.7 and add Python 3.9 (#10548)

Contributors

@awwad
@BastianZim
@beenje
@bgobbi
@blubs
@chenghlee
@cjmartian
@ericpre
@erykoff
@felker
@giladmaya
@jamesmyatt
@mingwandroid
@opoplawski
@saadparwaiz1
@saucoide

4.9.2 (2020-11-10)

Enhancements

Use vendored tqdm in conda.resolve for better consistency (#10337)

Bug fixes

Revert to previous naming scheme for repodata cache files when use_only_tar_bz2 config option is false (#10350)

Docs

Fix missing release notes (#10342)
Fix permission errors when configuring deb repositories (#10347)

Contributors

@chenghlee
@csoja
@dylanmorroll
@sscherfke

4.9.1 (2020-10-26)

Enhancements

Respect PEP 440 ~= “compatible release” clause (#10313)

Bug fixes

Remove preload_openssl for Win32 (#10298)
Add if exist to Windows registry hook (#10305)

Contributors

@mingwandroid

4.9.0 (2020-10-19)

Enhancements

Add osx-arm64 as a recognized platform (#10128, #10134, #10137)
Resign files modified during installation on ARM64 macOS (#10260)
Add __archspec virtual package to identify CPU microarchitecture (#9930)
Add __unix and __win virtual packages (#10214)
Add --no-capture--output option to conda run (#9646)
Add --live-stream option to conda run (#10270)
Export and import environment variables set using conda env config (#10169)
Cache repodata from file:// channels (#9730)
Do not relink already-installed packages (#10208)
Speed up JSON formatting in logz module (#10189)

Bug fixes:

Stop env remove --dry-run from actually removing environments (#10261)
Virtual package requirements are now considered by the solver (#10057)
Fix cached filename processing when using only tar.bz2 (#10193)
Stop showing solver hints about CUDA when it is not a dependency (#10275)
Ignore virtual packages when checking environment consistency (#10196)
Fix config --json output errors in certain circumstances (#10194)
More consistent error handling by conda shell (#10238)
Bump vendored version of tqdm to fix various threading and I/O bugs (#10266)

Docs

Correctly state default /AddToPath option in Windows installer (#10179)
Fix typos in --repodata-fn help text (#10279)

Miscellaneous

Update CI infrastructure to use GitHub Actions (#10176, #10186, #10234)
Update README badge to show GitHub Actions status (#10254)

Contributors

@AlbertDeFusco
@angloyna
@bbodenmiller
@casperdcl
@chenghlee
@chrisburr
@cjmartian
@dhirschfeld
@ericpre
@gabrielcnr
@InfiniteChai
@isuruf
@jjhelmus
@LorcanHamill
@maresb
@mingwandroid
@mlline00
@xhochy
@ydmytryk

4.8.5 (2020-09-14)

Enhancements

Add osx-arm64 as a recognized platform (#10128, #10134)

Contributors

@isuruf
@jjhelmus

4.8.4 (2020-08-06)

Enhancements

Add linux-ppc64 as a recognized platform (#9797, #9877)
Add linux-s390x as a recognized platform (#9933, #10051)
Add spinner to pip installer (#10032)
Add support for running conda in PyPy (#9764)
Support creating conda environments using remote specification files (#9835)
Allow request retries on various HTTP errors (#9919)
Add compare command for environments against a specification file (#10022)
Add (preliminary) support for JSON-format activation (#8727)
Properly handle the CURL_CA_BUNDLE environment variable (#10078)
More uniformly handle $CONDA_PREFIX when exporting environments (#10092)
Enable trailing _ to anchor OpenSSL-like versions (#9859)
Replace listdir and glob with scandir (#9889)
Ignore virtual packages when searching for constrained packages (#10117)
Add virtual packages to be considered in the solver (#10057)

Bug fixes:

Prevent remove --all from deleting non-environment directories (#10086)
Prevent create --dry-run --yes from deleting existing environments (#10090)
Remove extra newline from environment export file (#9649)
Print help on incomplete conda env config command rather than crashing (#9660)
Correctly set exit code/errorlevel when conda run exits (#9665)
Send “inconsistent environment” warnings to stderr to avoid breaking JSON output (#9738)
Fix output formatting from post-link scripts (#9841)
Fix URL parsing for channel subdirs (#9844)
Fix conda env export -f sometimes producing empty output files (#9909)
Fix handling of Python releases with two-digit minor versions (#9999)
Do not use gid to determine if user is an admin on *nix platforms (#10002)
Suppress spurious xonsh activation warnings (#10005)
Fix crash when running conda update --all on a nonexistent environment (#10028)
Fix collections import for Python 3.8 (#10093)
Fix regex-related deprecation warnings (#10093, #10096)
Fix logic error when running under Python 2.7 on 64-bit platforms (#10108)
Fix Python 3.8 leaked semaphore issue (#10115)

Docs

Fix formatting and typos (#9623, #9689, #9898, #10042)
Correct location for yum repository configuration files (#9988)
Clarify usage for the --channel option (#10054)
Clarify Python is not installed by default into new environments (#10089)

Miscellaneous

Fixes to tests and CI pipelines (#9842, #9863, #9938, #9960, #10010)
Remove conda-forge dependencies for developing conda (#9857, #9871)
Audit YAML usage for safe_load vs round_trip_load (#9902)

Contributors

@alanhdu
@angloyna
@Anthchirp
@Arrowbox
@bbodenmiller
@beenje
@bernardoduarte
@birdsarah
@bnemanich
@chenghlee
@ChihweiLHBird
@cjmartian
@ericpre
@error404-beep
@esc
@hartb
@hugobuddel
@isuruf
@jjhelmus
@kalefranz
@mingwandroid
@mlline00
@mparry
@mrocklin
@necaris
@pdnm
@pradghos
@ravigumm
@Reissner
@scopatz
@sidhant007
@songmeixu
@speleo3
@tomsaleeba
@WinstonPais

4.8.3 (2020-03-13)

Docs

Add release notes for 4.8.2 to docs (#9632)
Fix typos in docs (#9637, #9643)
Grammatical and formatting changes (#9647)

Bug fixes:

Account for channel is specs (#9748)

Contributors

@bernardoduarte
@forrestwaters
@jjhelmus
@msarahan
@rrigdon
@timgates42

4.8.2 (2020-01-24)

Enhancements

Solver messaging improvements (#9560)

Docs

Added precedence and conflict info (#9565)
Added how to set env variables with config API (#9536)
Updated user guide, deleted Overview, minor clean up (#9581)
Add code of conduct (#9601, #9602, #9603, #9603, #9604 #9605)

Bug fixes:

change fish prompt only if changeps1 is true (#7000)
make frozendict JSON serializable (#9539)
Conda env create empty dir (#9543)

Contributors

@msarahan
@jjhelmus
@rrigdon
@soapy1
@teake
@csoja
@kfranz

4.8.1 (2019-12-19)

Enhancements

improve performance for conda run by avoiding Popen.communicate (#9381)
Put conda keyring in /usr/share/keyrings on Debian (#9424)
refactor common.logic to fix some bugs and prepare for better modularity (#9427)
Support nested configuration (#9449)
Support Object configuration parameters (#9465)
Use freeze_installed to speed up conda env update (#9511)
add networking args to conda env create (#9525)

Docs

fix string concatenation running words together regarding CONDA_EXE (#9411)
Fix typo (“list” -> “info”) (#9433)
typo in condarc key envs_dirs (#9478)
Clarify channel priority and package sorting (#9492)
improve description of DLL loading verification and activating environments (#9453)
Installing with specific build number (#9534)

Bug fixes:

Fix calling python api run_command with list and string arguments (#9331)
revert init bash completion (#9421)
set tmp to shortened path that excludes spaces (#9409)
avoid function redefinition upon resourcing conda.fish (#9444)
propagate pip error level when creating envs with conda env (#9460)
fix incorrect chown call (#9464)
Add subdir to PackageRecord dist_str (#9418)
Fix running conda activate in multiple processes on windows (#9477)
Don’t check in pkgs for trash (#9472)
remove setuptools from run_constrained in recipe (#9485)
Fix __conda_activate function to correctly return exit code (#9532)
fix overly greedy capture done by subprocess for conda run (#9537)

Contributors

@AntoinePrv
@brettcannon
@bwildenhain
@cjmartian
@felker
@forrestwaters
@gilescope
@isuruf
@jeremyjliu
@jjhelmus
@jhultman
@marcuscaisey
@mbargull
@mingwandroid
@msarahan
@okhoma
@osamoylenko
@rrigdon
@rulerofthehuns
@soapy1
@tartansandal

4.8.0 (2019-11-04)

Enhancements

retry downloads if they fail, controlled by remote_max_retries and remote_backoff_factor configuration values (#9318)
redact authentication information in some URLs (#9341)
add osx version virtual package , __osx (#9349)
add glibc virtual package, __glibc (#9358)

Docs

removeed references to MD5s from docs (#9247)
Add docs on CONDA_DLL_SEARCH_MODIFICATION_ENABLED (#9286)
document threads, spec history and configuration (#9327)
more documentation on channels (#9335)
document the .condarc search order (#9369)
various minor documentation fixes (#9238, #9248, #9267, #9334, #9351, #9372, #9378, #9388, #9391, #9393)

Bug fixes

fix issues with xonsh activation on Windows (#8246)
remove unsupported --lock argument from conda clean (#8310)
do not add sys_prefix_path to failed activation or deactivation (#9282)
fix csh setenv command (#9284)
do not memorize PackageRecord.combined_depends (#9289)
use CONDA_INTERNAL_OLDPATH rather than OLDPATH in activation script (#9303)
fixes xonsh activation and tab completion (#9305)
fix what channels are queried when context.offline is True (#9385)

Contributors

@analog-cbarber
@andreasg123
@beckermr
@bryant1410
@colinbrislawn
@felker
@forrestwaters
@gabrielcnr
@isuruf
@jakirkham
@jeremyjliu
@jjhelmus
@jooh
@jpigla
@marcelotrevisani
@melund
@mfansler
@mingwandroid
@msarahan
@rrigdon
@scopatz
@soapy1
@WillyChen123
@xhochy

4.7.12 (2019-09-12)

Enhancements

add support for env file creation based on explicit specs in history (#9093)
detect prefix paths when -p nor -n not given (#9135)
Add config parameter to disable conflict finding (for faster time to errors) (#9190)

Bug fixes

fix race condition with creation of repodata cache dir (#9073)
fix ProxyError expected arguments (#9123)
makedirs to initialize .conda folder when registering env - fixes permission errors with .conda folders not existing when package cache gets created (#9215)
fix list duplicates errors in reading repodata/prefix data (#9132)
fix neutered specs not being recorded in history, leading to unsatisfiable environments later (#9147)
Standardize “conda env list” behavior between platforms (#9166)
add JSON output to conda env create/update (#9204)
speed up finding conflicting specs (speed regression in 4.7.11) (#9218)

Contributors

@beenje
@Bezier89
@cjmartian
@forrestwaters
@jjhelmus
@martin-raden
@msarahan
@nganani
@rrigdon
@soapy1
@WesRoach
@zheaton

4.7.11 (2019-08-06)

Enhancements

add config for control of number of threads. These can be set in condarc or using environment variables. Names/default values are: default_threads/None, repodata_threads/None, verify_threads/1, execute_threads/1 (#9044)

Bug fixes

fix repodata_fns from condarc not being respected (#8998)
Fix handling of UpdateModifiers other than FREEZE_INSTALLED (#8999)
Improve conflict finding graph traversal (#9006)
Fix setuptools being removed due to conda run_constrains (#9014)
Avoid calling find_conflicts until all retries are spent (#9015)
refactor _conda_activate.bat in hopes of improving behavior in parallel environments (#9021)
Add support for local version specs in PYPI installed packages (#9025)
fix boto3 initialization race condition (#9037)
Fix return condition in package_cache_data (#9039)
utilize libarchive_enabled attribute provided by conda-package-handling to fall back to .tar.bz2 files only. (#9041, #9053)
Fix menu creation on windows having race condition, leading to popups about python.exe not being found (#9044)
Improve list error when egg-link leads to extra egg-infos (#9045)
Fix incorrect RemoveError when operating on an env that has one of conda’s deps, but is not the env in which the current conda in use resides (#9054)

Docs

Document new package format better
Document conda init command
Document availability of RSS feed for CDN-backed channels that clone

Contributors

@Bezier89
@forrestwaters
@hajapy
@ihnorton
@matthewwardrop
@msarahan
@rogererens
@rrigdon
@soapy1

4.7.10 (2019-07-19)

Bug fixes

fix merging of specs
fix bugs in building of chains in prefix graph

Contributors

@msarahan

4.7.9 (2019-07-18)

Bug fixes

fix Non records in comprehension
fix potential keyerror in depth-first search
fix PackageNotFound attribute error

Contributors

@jjhelmus
@msarahan

4.7.8 (2019-07-17)

Improvements

improve unsatisfiable messages - try to group and explain output better. Remove lots of extraneous stuff that was showing up in 4.7.7 (#8910)
preload openssl on windows to avoid library conflicts and missing library issues (#8949)

Bug fixes

fix handling of channels where more than one channel contains packages with similar name, subdir, version and build_number. This was causing mysterious unsatisfiable errors for some users. (#8938)
reverse logic check in checking channel equality, because == is not reciprocal to != with py27 (no __ne__) (#8938)
fix an infinite loop or otherwise large process with building the unsatisfiable info. Improve the depth-first search implementation. (#8941)
streamline fallback paths to unfrozen solve in case frozen fails. (#8942)
Environment activation output only shows conda activate envname now, instead of sometimes showing just activate. (#8947)

Contributors

@forrestwaters
@jjhelmus
@katietz
@msarahan
@rrigdon
@soapy1

4.7.7 (2019-07-12)

Improvements

When an update command doesn’t do anything because installed software conflicts with the update, information about the conflict is shown, rather than just saying “all requests are already satisfied” (#8899)

Bug fixes

fix missing package_type attr in finding virtual packages (#8917)
fix parallel operations of loading index to preserve channel ordering (#8921, #8922)
filter PrefixRecords out from PackageRecords when making a graph to show unsatisfiable deps. Fixes comparison error between mismatched types. (#8924)
install entry points before running post-link scripts, because post link scripts may depend on entry points. (#8925)

Contributors

@jjhelmus
@msarahan
@rrigdon
@soapy1

4.7.6 (2019-07-11)

Improvements

Improve cuda virtual package conflict messages to show the __cuda virtual package as part of the conflict (#8834)
add additional debugging info to Resolve.solve (#8895)

Bug fixes

deduplicate error messages being shown for post-link scripts. Show captured stdout/stderr on failure (#8833)
fix the checkout step in the Windows dev env setup instructions (#8827)
bail out early when implicit python pinning renders an explicit spec unsatisfiable (#8834)
handle edge cases in pinned specs better (#8843)
extract package again if url is None (#8868)
update docs regarding indexing and subdirs (#8874)
remove warning about conda-build needing an update that was bothering people (#8884)
only add repodata fn into cache key when fn is not repodata.json (#8900)
allow conda to be downgraded with an explicit spec (#8892)
add target to specs from historic specs (#8901)
improve message when solving with a repodata file before repodata.json fails (#8907)
fix distutils usage for “which” functionality. Fix inability to change python version in envs with noarch packages (#8909)
fix anaconda metapackage being removed because history matching was too restrictive (#8911)
make freezing less aggressive; add fallback to non-frozen solve (#8912)

Contributors

@forrestwaters
@jjhelmus
@mcopes73
@msarahan
@richardjgowers
@rrigdon
@soapy1
@twinssbc

4.7.5 (2019-06-24)

Improvements

improve wording in informational message when a particular *_repodata.json can’t be found. No need for alarm. (#8808)

Bug fixes

restore tests being run on win-32 appveyor (#8801)
fix Dist class handling of .conda files (#8816)
fix strict channel priority handling when a package is unsatisfiable and thus not present in the collection (#8819)
handle JSONDecodeError better when package is corrupted at extract time (#8820)

Contributors

@dhirschfeld
@msarahan
@rrigdon

4.7.4 (2019-06-19)

Improvements

Revert to and improve the unsatisfiability determination from 4.7.2 that was reverted in 4.7.3. It’s faster. (#8783)

Bug fixes

fix tcsh/csh init scripts (#8792)

Docs improvements

clean up docs of run_command
fix broken links
update docs environment.yaml file to update conda-package-handling
conda logo favicon
update strict channel priority info
noarch package content ported from conda-forge
add info about conda-forge
remove references to things as they were before conda 4.1. That was a long time ago. This is not a history book.

Contributors

@jjhelmus
@msarahan
@rrigdon
@soapy1

4.7.3 (2019-06-14)

Bug fixes

target prefix overrid applies to entry points in addition to replacements in standard files (#8769)
Revert to solver-based unsatisfiability determination (#8775)
fix renaming of existing prompt function in powershell (#8774)

Contributors

@jjhelmus
@msarahan
@rrigdon
@ScottEvtuch

4.7.2 (2019-06-10)

Behavior changes

unsatisfiability is determined in a slightly different way now. It no longer uses the SAT solver, but rather determines whether any specs have no candidates at all after running through get_reduced_index. This has been faster in benchmarks, but we welcome further data from your use cases about whether this was a good change. (#8741)
when using the --only-deps flag for the install command, conda now explicitly records those specs in your history. This primarily serves to reduce conda accidentally removing packages that you have actually requested. (#8766)

Improvements

UnsatisfiableError messages are now grouped into categories and explained a bit better. (#8741)
–repodata-fn argument can be passed multiple times to have more fallback paths. repodata_fns conda config setting does the same thing, but saves you from needing to do it for every command invocation. (#8741)

Bug fixes

fix channel flip-flopping that was happening when adding a channel other than earlier ones (#8741)
refactor flow control for multiple repodata files to not use exceptions (#8741)
force conda to use only old .tar.bz2 files if conda-build <3.18.3 is installed. Conda-build breaks when inspecting file contents, and this is fixed in conda-build 3.18.3 (#8741)
use --force when using rsync to improve behavior with folders that may exist in the destination somehow. (#8750)
handle EPERM errors when renaming, because MacOS lets you remove or create files, but not rename them. Thanks Apple. (#8755)
fix conda removing packages installed via install with --only-deps flag when either update or remove commands are run. See behavior changes above. (#8766)

Contributors

@csosborn
@jjhelmus
@katietz
@msarahan
@rrigdon

4.7.1 (2019-05-30)

Improvements

Base initial solver specs map on explicitly requested specs (new and historic) (#8689)
Improve anonymization of automatic error reporting (#8715)
Add option to keep using .tar.bz2 files, in case new .conda isn’t working for whatever reason (#8723)

Bug fixes

fix parsing hyphenated PyPI specs (change hyphens in versions to .) (#8688)
fix PrefixRecord creation when file inputs are .conda files (#8689)
fix PrefixRecord creation for pip-installed packages (#8689)
fix progress bar stopping at 75% (no extract progress with new libarchive) (#8689)
preserve pre-4.7 download() interface in conda.exports (#8698)
virtual packages (such as cuda) are represented by leading double underscores by convention, to avoid confusion with existing single underscore packages that serve other purposes (#8738)

Deprecations/Breaking Changes

The --prune flag no longer does anything. Pruning is implicitly the standard behavior now as a result of the initial solver specs coming from explicitly requested specs. Conda will remove packages that are not explicitly requested and are not required directly or indirectly by any explicitly installed package.

Docs improvements

Document removal of the free channel from defaults (#8682)
Add reference to conda config --describe (#8712)
Add a tutorial for .condarc modification (#8737)

Contributors

@alexhall
@cjmartian
@kalefranz
@martinkou
@msarahan
@rrigdon
@soapy1

4.7.0 (2019-05-17)

Improvements

Implement support for “virtual” CUDA packages, to make conda consider the system-installed CUDA driver and act accordingly (#8267)
Support and prefer new .conda file format where available (#8265, #8639)
Use comma-separated env names in prompt when stacking envs (#8431)
show valid choices in error messages for enums (#8602)
freeze already-installed packages when running conda install as a first attempt, to speed up the solve in existing envs. Fall back to full solve as necessary (#8260, #8626)
add optimization criterion to prefer arch over noarch packages when otherwise equivalent (#8267)
Remove free channel from defaults collection. Add restore_free_channel config parameter if you want to keep it. (#8579)
Improve unsatisfiable hints (#8638)
Add capability to use custom repodata filename, for smaller subsets of repodata (#8670)
Parallelize SubdirData readup (#8670)
Parallelize transacation verification and execution (#8670)

Bug fixes

Fix PATH handling with deactivate.d scripts (#8464)
Fix usage of deprecated collections ABCs (#)
fix tcsh/csh initialization block (#8591)
fix missing CWD display in powershell prompt (#8596)
wrap_subprocess_call: fallback to sh if no bash (#8611)
move TemporaryDirectory to avoid importing from conda.compat (#8671)
fix missing conda-package-handling dependency in dev/start (#8624)
fix path_to_url string index out of range error (#8265)
fix conda init for xonsh (#8644)
fix fish activation (#8645)
improve error handling for read-only filesystems (#8665, #8674)
break out of minimization when bisection has nowhere to go (#8672)
Handle None values for link channel name gracefully (#8680)

Contributors

@chrisburr
@EternalPhane
@jjhelmus
@kalefranz
@mbargull
@msarahan
@rrigdon
@scopatz
@seibert
@soapy1
@nehaljwani
@nh3
@teake
@yuvalreches

4.6.14 (2019-04-17)

Bug fixes

export extra function in powershell Conda.psm1 script (fixes anaconda powershell prompt) (#8570)

Contributors

@msarahan

4.6.13 (2019-04-16)

Bug fixes

disable test_legacy_repodata on win-32 (missing dependencies) (#8540)
Fix activation problems on windows with bash, powershell, and batch. Improve tests. (#8550, #8564)
pass -U flag to for pip dependencies in conda env when running “conda env update” (#8542)
rename conda.common.os to conda.common._os to avoid shadowing os built-in (#8548)
raise exception when pip subprocess fails with conda env (#8562)
fix installing recursive requirements.txt files in conda env specs with python 2.7 (#8562)
Don’t modify powershell prompt when “changeps1” setting in condarc is False (#8465)

Contributors

@dennispg
@jjhelmus
@jpgill86
@mingwandroid
@msarahan
@noahp

4.6.12 (2019-04-10)

Bug fixes

Fix compat import warning (#8507)
Adjust collections import to avoid deprecation warning (#8499)
Fix bug in CLI tests (#8468)
Disallow the number sign in environment names (#8521)
Workaround issues with noarch on certain repositories (#8523)
Fix activation on Windows when spaces are in path (#8503)
Fix conda init profile modification for powershell (#8531)
Point conda.bat to condabin (#8517)
Fix various bugs in activation (#8520, #8528)

Docs improvements

Fix links in README (#8482)
Changelogs for 4.6.10 and 4.6.11 (#8502)

Contributors

@Bezier89 @duncanmmacleod @ivigamberdiev @javabrett @jjhelmus @katietz @mingwandroid @msarahan @nehaljwani @rrigdon

4.6.11 (2019-04-04)

Bug fixes

Remove sys.prefix from front of PATH in basic_posix (#8491)
add import to fix conda.core.index.get_index (#8495)

Docs improvements

Changelogs for 4.6.10

Contributors

@jjhelmus
@mingwandroid
@msarahan

4.6.10 (2019-04-01)

Bug fixes

Fix python-3 only FileNotFoundError usage in initialize.py (#8470)
Fix more JSON encode errors for the _Null data type (#8471)
Fix non-posix-compliant == in conda.sh (#8475, #8476)
improve detection of pip dependency in environment.yml files to avoid warning message (#8478)
fix condabin\conda.bat use of dp0, making PATH additions incorrect (#8480)
init_fish_user: don’t assume config file exists (#8481)
Fix for chcp output ending with . (#8484)

Docs improvements

Changelogs for 4.6.8, 4.6.9

Contributors

@duncanmmacleod
@nehaljwani
@ilango100
@jjhelmus
@mingwandroid
@msarahan
@rrigdon

4.6.9 (2019-03-29)

Improvements

Improve CI for docs commits (#8387, #8401, #8417)
Implement conda init --reverse to undo rc file and registry changes (#8400)
Improve handling of unicode systems (#8342, #8435)
Force the “COMSPEC” environment variable to always point to cmd.exe on windows. This was an implicit assumption that was not always true. (#8457, #8461)

Bug fixes

Add central C:/ProgramData/conda as a search path on Windows (#8272)
remove direct use of ruamel_yaml (prefer internal abstraction, yaml_load) (#8392)
Fix/improve conda init support for fish shell (#8437)
Improve solver behavior in the presence of inconsistent environments (such as pip as a conda dependency of python, but also installed via pip itself) (#8444)
Handle read-only filesystems for environments.txt (#8451, #8453)
Fix conda env commands involving pip-installed dependencies being installed into incorrect locations (#8435)

Docs improvements

updated cheatsheet (#8402)
updated color theme (#8403)

Contributors

@blackgear
@dhirschfeld
@jakirkham
@jjhelmus
@katietz
@mingwandroid
@msarahan
@nehaljwani
@rrigdon
@soapy1
@spamlrot-tic

4.6.8 (2019-03-06)

Bug fixes

detect when parser fails to parse arguments (#8328)
separate post-link script running from package linking. Do linking of all packages first, then run any post-link scripts after all packages are present. Ideally, more forgiving in presence of cycles. (#8350)
quote path to temporary requirements files generated by conda env. Fixes issues with spaces. (#8352)
improve some exception handling around checking for presence of folders in extraction of tarballs (#8360)
fix reporting of packages when channel name is None (#8379)
fix the post-creation helper message from “source activate” to “conda activate” (#8370)
Add safety checks for directory traversal exploits in tarfiles. These may be disabled using the safety_checks configuration parameter. (#8374)

Docs improvements

document MKL DLL hell and new Python env vars to control DLL search behavior (#8315)
add github template for reporting speed issues (#8344)
add in better use of sphinx admonitions (notes, warnings) for better accentuation in docs (#8348)
improve skipping CI builds when only docs changes are involved (#8336)

Contributors

@albertmichaelj
@jjhelmus
@matta9001
@msarahan
@rrigdon
@soapy1
@steffenvan

4.6.7 (2019-02-21)

Bug fixes

skip scanning folders for contents during reversal of transactions. Just ignore folders. A bit messier, but a lot faster. (#8266)
fix some logic in renaming trash files to fix permission errors (#8300)
wrap pip subprocess calls in conda-env more cleanly and uniformly (#8307)
revert conda prepending to PATH in cli main file on windows (#8307)
simplify conda run code to use activation subprocess wrapper. Fix a few conda tests to use conda run. (#8307)

Docs improvements

fixed duplicated “to” in managing envs section (#8298)
flesh out docs on activation (#8314)
correct git syntax for adding a remote in dev docs (#8316)
unpin sphinx version in docs requirements (#8317)

Contributors

@jjhelmus
@MarckK
@msarahan
@rrigdon
@samgd

4.6.6 (2019-02-18)

Bug fixes

fix incorrect syntax prepending to PATH for conda CLI functionality (#8295)
fix rename_tmp.bat operating on folders, leading to hung interactive dialogs. Operate only on files. (#8295)

Contributors

@mingwandroid
@msarahan

4.6.5 (2019-02-15)

Bug fixes

Make super in resolve.py python 2 friendly (#8280)
support unicode paths better in activation scripts on Windows (#)
set PATH for conda.bat to include Conda’s root prefix, so that libraries can be found when using conda when the root env is not activated (#8287, #8292)
clean up warnings/errors about rsync and trash files (#8290)

Contributors

@jjhelmus
@mingwandroid
@msarahan
@rrigdon

4.6.4 (2019-02-13)

Improvements

allow configuring location of instrumentation records (#7849)
prepend conda-env pip commands with env activation to fix library loading (#8263)

Bug fixes

resolve #8176 SAT solver choice error handling (#8248)
document pip_interop_enabled config parameter (#8250)
ensure prefix temp files are inside prefix (#8253)
ensure script_caller is bound before use (#8254)
fix overzealous removal of folders after cleanup of failed post-link scripts (#8259)
fix #8264: Allow ‘int’ datatype for values to non-sequence parameters (#8268)

Deprecations/Breaking Changes

remove experimental featureless_minimization_disabled feature flag (#8249)

Contributors

@davemasino
@geremih
@jjhelmus
@kalefranz
@msarahan
@minrk
@nehaljwani
@prusse-martin
@rrigdon
@soapy1

4.6.3 (2019-02-07)

Improvements

Implement -stack switch for powershell usage of conda (#8217)
Enable system-wide initialization for conda shell support (#8219)
Activate environments prior to running post-link scripts (#8229)
Instrument more solve calls to prioritize future optimization efforts (#8231)
print more env info when searching in envs (#8240)

Bug fixes

resolve #8178, fix conda pip interop assertion error with egg folders (#8184)
resolve #8157, fix token leakage in errors and config output (#8163)
resolve #8185, fix conda package filtering with embedded/vendored python metadata (#8198)
resolve #8199, fix errors on .* in version specs that should have been specific to the ~= operator (#8208)
fix .bat scripts for handling paths on Windows with spaces (#8215)
fix powershell scripts for handling paths on Windows with spaces (#8222)
handle missing rename script more gracefully (especially when updating/installing conda itself) (#8212)

Contributors

@dhirschfeld
@jjhelmus
@kalefranz
@msarahan
@murrayreadccdc
@nehaljwani
@rrigdon
@soapy1

4.6.2 (2019-01-29)

Improvements

Documentation restructuring/improvements (#8139, #8143)
rewrite rm_rf to use native system utilities and rename trash files (#8134)

Bug fixes

fix UnavailableInvalidChannel errors when only noarch subdir is present (#8154)
document, but disable the allow_conda_downgrades flag, pending re-examination of the warning, which was blocking conda operations after an upgrade-downgrade cycle across minor versions. (#8160)
fix conda env export missing pip entries without use of pip interop enabled setting (#8165)

Contributors

@jjhelmus
@msarahan
@nehaljwani
@rrigdon

4.5.13 (2019-01-29)

Improvements

document the allow_conda_downgrades configuration parameter (#8034)
remove conda upgrade message (#8161)

Contributors

@msarahan
@nehaljwani

4.6.1 (2019-01-21)

Improvements

optimizations in get_reduced_index (#8117, #8121, #8122)

Bug Fixes

fix faulty onerror call for rm (#8053)
fix activate.bat to use more direct call to conda.bat (don’t require conda init; fix non-interactive script) (#8113)

Contributors

@jjhelmus
@msarahan
@pv

4.6.0 (2019-01-15)

New Feature Highlights

resolve #7053 preview support for conda operability with pip; disabled by default (#7067, #7370, #7710, #8050)
conda initialize (#6518, #7388, #7629)
resolve #7194 add ‘–stack’ flag to ‘conda activate’; remove max_shlvl config (#7195, #7226, #7233)
resolve #7087 add non-conda-installed python packages into PrefixData (#7067, #7370)
resolve #2682 add ‘conda run’ preview support (#7320, #7625)
resolve #626 conda wrapper for PowerShell (#7794, #7829)

Deprecations/Breaking Changes

resolve #6915 remove ‘conda env attach’ and ‘conda env upload’ (#6916)
resolve #7061 remove pkgs/pro from defaults (#7162)
resolve #7078 add deprecation warnings for ‘conda.cli.activate’, ‘conda.compat’, and ‘conda.install’ (#7079)
resolve #7194 add ‘–stack’ flag to ‘conda activate’; remove max_shlvl config (#7195)
resolve #6979, #7086 remove Dist from majority of project (#7216, #7252)
fix #7362 remove --license from conda info and related code paths (#7386)
resolve #7309 deprecate ‘conda info package_name’ (#7310)
remove ‘conda clean --source-cache’ and defer to conda-build (#7731)
resolve #7724 move windows package cache and envs dirs back to .conda directory (#7725)
disallow env names with colons (#7801)

Improvements

import speedups (#7122)
–help cleanup (#7120)
fish autocompletion for conda env (#7101)
remove reference to ‘system’ channel (#7163)
add http error body to debug information (#7160)
warn creating env name with space is not supported (#7168)
support complete MatchSpec syntax in environment.yml files (#7178)
resolve #4274 add option to remove an existing environment with ‘conda create’ (#7133)
add ability for conda prompt customization via ‘env_prompt’ config param (#7047)
resolve #7063 add license and license_family to MatchSpec for ‘conda search’ (#7064)
resolve #7189 progress bar formatting improvement (#7191)
raise log level for errors to error (#7229)
add to conda.exports (#7217)
resolve #6845 add option -S / --satisfied-skip-solve to exit early for satisfied specs (#7291)
add NoBaseEnvironmentError and DirectoryNotACondaEnvironmentError (#7378)
replace menuinst subprocessing by ctypes win elevation (4.6.0a3) (#7426)
bump minimum requests version to stable, unbundled release (#7528)
resolve #7591 updates and improvements from namespace PR for 4.6 (#7599)
resolve #7592 compatibility shims (#7606)
user-agent context refactor (#7630)
solver performance improvements with benchmarks in common.logic (#7676)
enable fuzzy-not-equal version constraint for pip interop (#7711)
add -d short option for --dry-run (#7719)
add --force-pkgs-dirs option to conda clean (#7719)
address #7709 ensure --update-deps unlocks specs from previous user requests (#7719)
add package timestamp information to output of ‘conda search --info’ (#7722)
resolve #7336 ‘conda search’ tries “fuzzy match” before showing PackagesNotFound (#7722)
resolve #7656 strict channel priority via ‘channel_priority’ config option or --strict-channel-priority CLI flag (#7729)
performance improvement to cache hash value on PackageRecord (#7715)
resolve #7764 change name of ‘condacmd’ dir to ‘condabin’; use on all platforms (#7773)
resolve #7782 implement PEP-440 ‘~=’ compatible release operator (#7783)
disable timestamp prioritization when not needed (#7894, #8012)
compile pyc files for noarch packages in batches (#8015)
disable per-file sha256 safety checks by default; add extra_safety_checks condarc option to enable them (#8017)
shorten retries for file removal on windows, where in-use files can’t be removed (#8024)
expand env vars in custom_channels, custom_multichannels, default_channels, migrated_custom_channels, and whitelist_channels (#7826)
encode repodata to utf-8 while caching, to fix unicode characters in repodata (#7873)

Bug Fixes

fix #7107 verify hangs when a package is corrupted (#7131)
fix #7145 progress bar uses stderr instead of stdout (#7146)
fix typo in conda.fish (#7152)
fix #2154 conda remove should complain if requested removals don’t exist (#7135)
fix #7094 exit early for --dry-run with explicit and clone (#7096)
fix activation script sort order (#7176)
fix #7109 incorrect chown with sudo (#7180)
fix #7210 add suppressed --mkdir back to ‘conda create’ (fix for 4.6.0a1) (#7211)
fix #5681 conda env create / update when --file does not exist (#7385)
resolve #7375 enable conda config --set update_modifier (#7377)
fix #5885 improve conda env error messages and add extra tests (#7395)
msys2 path conversion (#7389)
fix autocompletion in fish (#7575)
fix #3982 following 4.4 activation refactor (#7607)
fix #7242 configuration load error message (#7243)
fix conda env compatibility with pip 18 (#7612)
fix #7184 remove conflicting specs to find solution to user’s active request (#7719)
fix #7706 add condacmd dir to cmd.exe path on first activation (#7735)
fix #7761 spec handling errors in 4.6.0b0 (#7780)
fix #7770 ‘conda list regex’ only applies regex to package name (#7784)
fix #8076 load metadata from index to resolve inconsistent envs (#8083)

Non-User-Facing Changes

resolve #6595 use OO inheritance in activate.py (#7049)
resolve #7220 pep8 project renamed to pycodestyle (#7221)
proxy test routine (#7308)
add .mailmap and .cla-signers (#7361)
add copyright headers (#7367)
rename common.platform to common.os and split among windows, linux, and unix utils (#7396)
fix windows test failures when symlink not available (#7369)
test building conda using conda-build (#7251)
solver test metadata updates (#7664)
explicitly add Mapping, Sequence to common.compat (#7677)
add debug messages to communicate solver stages (#7803)
add undocumented sat_solver config parameter (#7811)

Preview Releases

4.6.0a1 at d5bec21d1f64c3bc66c2999cfc690681e9c46177 on 2018-04-20
4.6.0a2 at c467517ca652371ebc4224f0d49315b7ec225108 on 2018-05-01
4.6.0b0 at 21a24f02b2687d0895de04664a4ec23ccc75c33a on 2018-09-07
4.6.0b1 at 1471f043eed980d62f46944e223f0add6a9a790b on 2018-10-22
4.6.0rc1 at 64bde065f8343276f168d2034201115dff7c5753 on 2018-12-31

Contributors

@cgranade
@fabioz
@geremih
@goanpeca
@jesse-
@jjhelmus
@kalefranz
@makbigc
@mandeep
@mbargull
@msarahan
@nehaljwani
@ohadravid
@teake

4.5.12 (2018-12-10)

Improvements

backport ‘allow_conda_downgrade’ configuration parameter, default is False (#7998)
speed up verification by disabling per-file sha256 checks (#8017)
indicate Python 3.7 support in setup.py file (#8018)
speed up solver by reduce the size of reduced index (#8016)
speed up solver by skipping timestamp minimization when not needed (#8012)
compile pyc files more efficiently, will speed up install of noarch packages (#8025)
avoid waiting for removal of files on Windows when possible (#8024)

Bug Fixes

update integration tests for removal of ‘features’ key (#7726)
fix conda.bat return code (#7944)
ensure channel name is not NoneType (#8021)

Contributors

@debionne
@jjhelmus
@kalefranz
@msarahan
@nehaljwani

4.5.11 (2018-08-21)

Improvements

resolve #7672 compatibility with ruamel.yaml 0.15.54 (#7675)

Contributors

@CJ-Wright
@mbargull

4.5.10 (2018-08-13)

Bug Fixes

fix conda env compatibility with pip 18 (#7627)
fix py37 compat 4.5.x (#7641)
fix #7451 don’t print name, version, and size if unknown (#7648)
replace glob with fnmatch in PrefixData (#7645)

Contributors

@jesse-
@nehaljwani

4.5.9 (2018-07-30)

Improvements

resolve #7522 prevent conda from scheduling downgrades (#7598)
allow skipping feature maximization in resolver (#7601)

Bug Fixes

fix #7559 symlink stat in localfs adapter (#7561)
fix #7486 activate with no PATH set (#7562)
resolve #7522 prevent conda from scheduling downgrades (#7598)

Contributors

@kalefranz
@loriab

4.5.8 (2018-07-10)

Bug Fixes

fix #7524 should_bypass_proxies for requests 2.13.0 and earlier (#7525)

Contributors

@kalefranz

4.5.7 (2018-07-09)

Improvements

resolve #7423 add upgrade error for unsupported repodata_version (#7415)
raise CondaUpgradeError for conda version downgrades on environments (#7517)

Bug Fixes

fix #7505 temp directory for UnlinkLinkTransaction should be in target prefix (#7516)
fix #7506 requests monkeypatch fallback for old requests versions (#7515)

Contributors

@kalefranz
@nehaljwani

4.5.6 (2018-07-06)

Bug Fixes

resolve #7473 py37 support (#7499)
fix #7494 History spec parsing edge cases (#7500)
fix requests 2.19 incompatibility with NO_PROXY env var (#7498)
resolve #7372 disable http error uploads and CI cleanup (#7498, #7501)

Contributors

@kalefranz

4.5.5 (2018-06-29)

Bug Fixes

fix #7165 conda version check should be restricted to channel conda is from (#7289, #7303)
fix #7341 ValueError n cannot be negative (#7360)
fix #6691 fix history file parsing containing comma-joined version specs (#7418)
fix msys2 path conversion (#7471)

Contributors

@goanpeca
@kalefranz
@mingwandroid
@mbargull

4.5.4 (2018-05-14)

Improvements

resolve #7189 progress bar improvement (#7191 via #7274)

Bug Fixes

fix twofold tarball extraction, improve progress update (#7275)
fix #7253 always respect copy LinkType (#7269)

Contributors

@jakirkham
@kalefranz
@mbargull

4.5.3 (2018-05-07)

Bug Fixes

fix #7240 conda’s configuration context is not initialized in conda.exports (#7244)

4.5.2 (2018-04-27)

Bug Fixes

fix #7107 verify hangs when a package is corrupted (#7223)
fix #7094 exit early for --dry-run with explicit and clone (#7224)
fix activation/deactivation script sort order (#7225)

4.5.1 (2018-04-13)

Improvements

resolve #7075 add anaconda.org search message to PackagesNotFoundError (#7076)
add CondaError details to auto-upload reports (#7060)

Bug Fixes

fix #6703,#6981 index out of bound when running deactivate on fish shell (#6993)
properly close over $_CONDA_EXE variable (#7004)
fix condarc map parsing with comments (#7021)
fix #6919 csh prompt (#7041)
add _file_created attribute (#7054)
fix handling of non-ascii characters in custom_multichannels (#7050)
fix #6877 handle non-zero return in CSH (#7042)
fix #7040 update tqdm to version 4.22.0 (#7157)

4.5.0 (2018-03-20)

New Feature Highlights

A new flag, ‘–envs’, has been added to ‘conda search’. In this mode, ‘conda search’ will look for the package query in existing conda environments on your system. If ran as UID 0 (i.e. root) on unix systems or as an Administrator user on Windows, all known conda environments for all users on the system will be searched. For example, ‘conda search --envs openssl’ will show the openssl version and environment location for all conda-installed openssl packages.

Deprecations/Breaking Changes

resolve #6886 transition defaults from repo.continuum.io to repo.anaconda.com (#6887)
resolve #6192 deprecate ‘conda help’ in favor of --help CLI flag (#6918)
resolve #6894 add http errors to auto-uploaded error reports (#6895)

Improvements

resolve #6791 conda search --envs (#6794)
preserve exit status in fish shell (#6760)
resolve #6810 add CONDA_EXE environment variable to activate (#6923)
resolve #6695 outdated conda warning respects --quiet flag (#6935)
add instructions to activate default environment (#6944)

API

resolve #5610 add PrefixData, SubdirData, and PackageCacheData to conda/api.py (#6922)

Bug Fixes

channel matchspec fixes (#6893)
fix #6930 add missing return statement to S3Adapter (#6931)
fix #5802, #6736 enforce disallowed_packages configuration parameter (#6932)
fix #6860 infinite recursion in resolve.py for empty track_features (#6928)
set encoding for PY2 stdout/stderr (#6951)
fix #6821 non-deterministic behavior from MatchSpec merge clobbering (#6956)
fix #6904 logic errors in prefix graph data structure (#6929)

Non-User-Facing Changes

fix several lgtm.com flags (#6757, #6883)
cleanups and refactors for conda 4.5 (#6889)
unify location of record types in conda/models/records.py (#6924)
resolve #6952 memoize url search in package cache loading (#6957)

4.4.11 (2018-02-23)

Improvements

resolve #6582 swallow_broken_pipe context manager and Spinner refactor (#6616)
resolve #6882 document max_shlvl (#6892)
resolve #6733 make empty env vars sequence-safe for sequence parameters (#6741)
resolve #6900 don’t record conda skeleton environments in environments.txt (#6908)

Bug Fixes

fix potential error in ensure_pad(); add more tests (#6817)
fix #6840 handle error return values in conda.sh (#6850)
use conda.gateways.disk for misc.py imports (#6870)
fix #6672 don’t update conda during conda-env operations (#6773)
fix #6811 don’t attempt copy/remove fallback for rename failures (#6867)
fix #6667 aliased posix commands (#6669)
fix #6816 fish environment autocomplete (#6885)
fix #6880 build_number comparison not functional in match_spec (#6881)
fix #6910 sort key prioritizes build string over build number (#6911)
fix #6914, #6691 conda can fail to update packages even though newer versions exist (#6921)
fix #6899 handle Unicode output in activate commands (#6909)

4.4.10 (2018-02-09)

Bug Fixes

fix #6837 require at least futures 3.0.0 (#6855)
fix #6852 ensure temporary path is writable (#6856)
fix #6833 improve feature mismatch metric (via 4.3.34 #6853)

4.4.9 (2018-02-06)

Improvements

resolve #6632 display package removal plan when deleting an env (#6801)

Bug Fixes

fix #6531 don’t drop credentials for conda-build workaround (#6798)
fix external command execution issue (#6789)
fix #5792 conda env export error common in path (#6795)
fix #6390 add CorruptedEnvironmentError (#6778)
fix #5884 allow --insecure CLI flag without contradicting meaning of ssl_verify (#6782)
fix MatchSpec.match() accepting dict (#6808)
fix broken Anaconda Prompt for users with spaces in paths (#6825)
JSONDecodeError was added in Python 3.5 (#6848)
fix #6796 update PATH/prompt on reactivate (#6828)
fix #6401 non-ascii characters on windows using expanduser (#6847)
fix #6824 import installers before invoking any (#6849)

4.4.8 (2018-01-25)

Improvements

allow falsey values for default_python to avoid pinning python (#6682)
resolve #6700 add message for no space left on device (#6709)
make variable ‘sourced’ local for posix shells (#6726)
add column headers to conda list results (#5726)

Bug Fixes

fix #6713 allow parenthesis in prefix path for conda.bat (#6722)
fix #6684 --force message (#6723)
fix #6693 KeyError with ‘–update-deps’ (#6694)
fix aggressive_update_packages availability (#6727)
fix #6745 don’t truncate channel priority map in conda installer (#6746)
add workaround for system Python usage by lsb_release (#6769)
fix #6624 can’t start new thread (#6653)
fix #6628 ‘conda install --rev’ in conda 4.4 (#6724)
fix #6707 FileNotFoundError when extracting tarball (#6708)
fix #6704 unexpected token in conda.bat (#6710)
fix #6208 return for no pip in environment (#6784)
fix #6457 env var cleanup (#6790)
fix #6645 escape paths for argparse help (#6779)
fix #6739 handle unicode in environment variables for py2 activate (#6777)
fix #6618 RepresenterError with ‘conda config --set’ (#6619)
fix #6699 suppress memory error upload reports (#6776)
fix #6770 CRLF for cmd.exe (#6775)
fix #6514 add message for case-insensitive filesystem errors (#6764)
fix #6537 AttributeError value for url not set (#6754)
fix #6748 only warn if unable to register environment due to EACCES (#6752)

4.4.7 (2018-01-08)

Improvements

resolve #6650 add upgrade message for unicode errors in python 2 (#6651)

Bug Fixes

fix #6643 difference between ‘==’ and ‘exact_match_’ (#6647)
fix #6620 KeyError(u’CONDA_PREFIX’,) (#6652)
fix #6661 remove env from environments.txt (#6662)
fix #6629 ‘conda update --name’ AssertionError (#6656)
fix #6630 repodata AssertionError (#6657)
fix #6626 add setuptools as constrained dependency (#6654)
fix #6659 conda list explicit should be dependency sorted (#6671)
fix #6665 KeyError for channel ‘’ (#6668, #6673)
fix #6627 AttributeError on ‘conda activate’ (#6655)

4.4.6 (2017-12-31)

Bug Fixes

fix #6612 do not assume Anaconda Python on Windows nor Library\bin hack (#6615)
recipe test improvements and associated bug fixes (#6614)

4.4.5 (2017-12-29)

Bug Fixes

fix #6577, #6580 single quote in PS1 (#6585)
fix #6584 os.getcwd() FileNotFound (#6589)
fix #6592 deactivate command order (#6602)
fix #6579 python not recognized as command (#6588)
fix #6572 cached repodata PermissionsError (#6573)
change instances of ‘root’ to ‘base’ (#6598)
fix #6607 use subprocess rather than execv for conda command extensions (#6609)
fix #6581 git-bash activation (#6587)
fix #6599 space in path to base prefix (#6608)

4.4.4 (2017-12-24)

Improvements

add SUDO_ env vars to info reports (#6563)
add additional information to the #6546 exception (#6551)

Bug Fixes

fix #6548 ‘conda update’ installs packages not in prefix #6550
fix #6546 update after creating an empty env (#6568)
fix #6557 conda list FileNotFoundError (#6558)
fix #6554 package cache FileNotFoundError (#6555)
fix #6529 yaml parse error (#6560)
fix #6562 repodata_record.json permissions error stack trace (#6564)
fix #6520 --use-local flag (#6526)

4.4.3 (2017-12-22)

Improvements

adjust error report message (#6534)

Bug Fixes

fix #6530 package cache JsonDecodeError / ValueError (#6533)
fix #6538 BrokenPipeError (#6540)
fix #6532 remove anaconda metapackage hack (#6539)
fix #6536 ‘conda env export’ for old versions of pip (#6535)
fix #6541 py2 and unicode in environments.txt (#6542)

Non-User-Facing Changes

regression tests for #6512 (#6515)

4.4.2 (2017-12-22)

Deprecations/Breaking Changes

resolve #6523 don’t prune with --update-all (#6524)

Bug Fixes

fix #6508 environments.txt permissions error stack trace (#6511)
fix #6522 error message formatted incorrectly (#6525)
fix #6516 hold channels over from get_index to install_actions (#6517)

4.4.1 (2017-12-21)

Bug Fixes

fix #6512 reactivate does not accept arguments (#6513)

4.4.0 (2017-12-20)

Recommended change to enable conda in your shell

With the release of conda 4.4, we recommend a change to how the conda command is made available to your shell environment. All the old methods still work as before, but you’ll need the new method to enable the new conda activate and conda deactivate commands.

For the “Anaconda Prompt” on Windows, there is no change.

For Bourne shell derivatives (bash, zsh, dash, etc.), you likely currently have a line similar to

export PATH="/opt/conda/bin:$PATH"

in your ~/.bashrc file (or ~/.bash_profile file on macOS). The effect of this line is that your base environment is put on PATH, but without actually activating that environment. (In 4.4 we’ve renamed the ‘root’ environment to the ‘base’ environment.) With conda 4.4, we recommend removing the line where the PATH environment variable is modified, and replacing it with

. /opt/conda/etc/profile.d/conda.sh
conda activate base

In the above, it’s assumed that /opt/conda is the location where you installed miniconda or Anaconda. It may also be something like ~/Anaconda3 or ~/miniconda2.

For system-wide conda installs, to make the conda command available to all users, rather than manipulating individual ~/.bashrc (or ~/.bash_profile) files for each user, just execute once

$ sudo ln -s /opt/conda/etc/profile.d/conda.sh /etc/profile.d/conda.sh

This will make the conda command itself available to all users, but conda’s base (root) environment will not be activated by default. Users will still need to run conda activate base to put the base environment on PATH and gain access to the executables in the base environment.

After updating to conda 4.4, we also recommend pinning conda to a specific channel. For example, executing the command

$ conda config --system --add pinned_packages conda-canary::conda

will make sure that whenever conda is installed or changed in an environment, the source of the package is always being pulled from the conda-canary channel. This will be useful for people who use conda-forge, to prevent conda from flipping back and forth between 4.3 and 4.4.

New Feature Highlights

conda activate: The logic and mechanisms underlying environment activation have been reworked. With conda 4.4, conda activate and conda deactivate are now the preferred commands for activating and deactivating environments. You’ll find they are much more snappy than the source activate and source deactivate commands from previous conda versions. The conda activate command also has advantages of (1) being universal across all OSes, shells, and platforms, and (2) not having path collisions with scripts from other packages like python virtualenv’s activate script.
constrained, optional dependencies: Conda now allows a package to constrain versions of other packages installed alongside it, even if those constrained packages are not themselves hard dependencies for that package. In other words, it lets a package specify that, if another package ends up being installed into an environment, it must at least conform to a certain version specification. In effect, constrained dependencies are a type of “reverse” dependency. It gives a tool to a parent package to exclude other packages from an environment that might otherwise want to depend on it.

Constrained optional dependencies are supported starting with conda-build 3.0 (via [conda/conda-build#2001[(https://github.com/conda/conda-build/pull/2001)). A new run_constrained keyword, which takes a list of package specs similar to the run keyword, is recognized under the requirements section of meta.yaml. For backward compatibility with versions of conda older than 4.4, a requirement may be listed in both the run and the run_constrained section. In that case older versions of conda will see the package as a hard dependency, while conda 4.4 will understand that the package is meant to be optional.

Optional, constrained dependencies end up in repodata.json under a constrains keyword, parallel to the depends keyword for a package’s hard dependencies.
enhanced package query language: Conda has a built-in query language for searching for and matching packages, what we often refer to as MatchSpec. The MatchSpec is what users input on the command line when they specify packages for create, install, update, and remove operations. With this release, MatchSpec (rather than a regex) becomes the default input for conda search. We have also substantially enhanced our MatchSpec query language.

For example,
```
conda install conda-forge::python
```
is now a valid command, which specifies that regardless of the active list of channel priorities, the python package itself should come from the conda-forge channel. As before, the difference between python=3.5 and python==3.5 is that the first contains a “fuzzy” version while the second contains an exact version. The fuzzy spec will match all python packages with versions >=3.5 and <3.6. The exact spec will match only python packages with version 3.5, 3.5.0, 3.5.0.0, etc. The canonical string form for a MatchSpec is thus
```
(channel::)name(version(build_string))
```
which should feel natural to experienced conda users. Specifications however are often necessarily more complicated than this simple form can support, and for these situations we’ve extended the specification to include an optional square bracket [] component containing comma-separated key-value pairs to allow matching on most any field contained in a package’s metadata. Take, for example,
```
conda search 'conda-forge/linux-64::*[md5=e42a03f799131d5af4196ce31a1084a7]' --info
```
which results in information for the single package
```
cytoolz 0.8.2 py35_0
--------------------
file name   : cytoolz-0.8.2-py35_0.tar.bz2
name        : cytoolz
version     : 0.8.2
build string: py35_0
build number: 0
size        : 1.1 MB
arch        : x86_64
platform    : Platform.linux
license     : BSD 3-Clause
subdir      : linux-64
url         : https://conda.anaconda.org/conda-forge/linux-64/cytoolz-0.8.2-py35_0.tar.bz2
md5         : e42a03f799131d5af4196ce31a1084a7
dependencies:
  - python 3.5*
  - toolz >=0.8.0
```
The square bracket notation can also be used for any field that we match on outside the package name, and will override information given in the “simple form” position. To give a contrived example, python==3.5[version='>=2.7,<2.8'] will match 2.7.* versions and not 3.5.
environments track user-requested state: Building on our enhanced MatchSpec query language, conda environments now also track and differentiate (a) packages added to an environment because of an explicit user request from (b) packages brought into an environment to satisfy dependencies. For example, executing
```
conda install conda-forge::scikit-learn
```
will confine all future changes to the scikit-learn package in the environment to the conda-forge channel, until the spec is changed again. A subsequent command conda install scikit-learn=0.18 would drop the conda-forge channel restriction from the package. And in this case, scikit-learn is the only user-defined spec, so the solver chooses dependencies from all configured channels and all available versions.
errors posted to core maintainers: In previous versions of conda, unexpected errors resulted in a request for users to consider posting the error as a new issue on conda’s github issue tracker. In conda 4.4, we’ve implemented a system for users to opt-in to sending that same error report via an HTTP POST request directly to the core maintainers.

When an unexpected error is encountered, users are prompted with the error report followed by a [y/N] input. Users can elect to send the report, with ‘no’ being the default response. Users can also permanently opt-in or opt-out, thereby skipping the prompt altogether, using the boolean report_errors configuration parameter.
various UI improvements: To push through some of the big leaps with transactions in conda 4.3, we accepted some regressions on progress bars and other user interface features. All of those indicators of progress, and more, have been brought back and further improved.
aggressive updates: Conda now supports an aggressive_update_packages configuration parameter that holds a sequence of MatchSpec strings, in addition to the pinned_packages configuration parameter. Currently, the default value contains the packages ca-certificates, certifi, and openssl. When manipulating configuration with the conda config command, use of the --system and --env flags will be especially helpful here. For example,
```
conda config --add aggressive_update_packages defaults::pyopenssl --system
```
would ensure that, system-wide, solves on all environments enforce using the latest version of pyopenssl from the defaults channel.
```
conda config --add pinned_packages python=2.7 --env
```
would lock all solves for the current active environment to python versions matching 2.7.*.
other configuration improvements: In addition to conda config --describe, which shows detailed descriptions and default values for all available configuration parameters, we have a new conda config --write-default command. This new command simply writes the contents of conda config --describe to a condarc file, which is a great starter template. Without additional arguments, the command will write to the .condarc file in the user’s home directory. The command also works with the --system, --env, and --file flags to write the contents to alternate locations.

Conda exposes a tremendous amount of flexibility via configuration. For more information, The Conda Configuration Engine for Power Users blog post is a good resource.

Deprecations/Breaking Changes

the conda ‘root’ environment is now generally referred to as the ‘base’ environment
Conda 4.4 now warns when available information about per-path sha256 sums and file sizes do not match the recorded information. The warning is scheduled to be an error in conda 4.5. Behavior is configurable via the safety_checks configuration parameter.
remove support for with_features_depends (#5191)
resolve #5468 remove --alt-hint from CLI API (#5469)
resolve #5834 change default value of ‘allow_softlinks’ from True to False (#5835)
resolve #5842 add deprecation warnings for ‘conda env upload’ and ‘conda env attach’ (#5843)

API

Add Solver from conda.core.solver with three methods to conda.api (4.4.0rc1) (#5838)

Improvements

constrained, optional dependencies (#4982)
conda shell function (#5044, #5141, #5162, #5169, #5182, #5210, #5482)
resolve #5160 conda xontrib plugin (#5157)
resolve #1543 add support and tests for --no-deps and --only-deps (#5265)
resolve #988 allow channel name to be part of the package name spec (#5365, #5791)
resolve #5530 add ability for users to choose to post unexpected errors to core maintainers (#5531, #5571, #5585)
Solver, UI, History, and Other (#5546, #5583, #5740)
improve ‘conda search’ to leverage new MatchSpec query language (#5597)
filter out unwritable package caches from conda clean command (#4620)
envs_manager, requested spec history, declarative solve, and private env tests (#4676, #5114, #5094, #5145, #5492)
make python entry point format match pip entry points (#5010)
resolve #5113 clean up CLI imports to improve process startup time (#4799)
resolve #5121 add features/track_features support for MatchSpec (#5054)
resolve #4671 hold verify backoff count in transaction context (#5122)
resolve #5078 record package metadata after tarball extraction (#5148)
resolve #3580 support stacking environments (#5159)
resolve #3763, #4378 allow pip requirements.txt syntax in environment files (#3969)
resolve #5147 add ‘config files’ to conda info (#5269)
use --format=json to parse list of pip packages (#5205)
resolve #1427 remove startswith ‘.’ environment name constraint (#5284)
link packages from extracted tarballs when tarball is gone (#5289)
resolve #2511 accept config information from stdin (#5309)
resolve #4302 add ability to set map parameters with conda config (#5310)
resolve #5256 enable conda config --get for all primitive parameters (#5312)
resolve #1992 add short flag -C for --use-index-cache (#5314)
resolve #2173 add --quiet option to conda clean (#5313)
resolve #5358 conda should exec to subcommands, not subprocess (#5359)
resolve #5411 add ‘conda config --write-default’ (#5412)
resolve #5081 make pinned packages optional dependencies (#5414)
resolve #5430 eliminate current deprecation warnings (#5422)
resolve #5470 make stdout/stderr capture in python_api customizable (#5471)
logging simplifications/improvements (#5547, #5578)
update license information (#5568)
enable threadpool use for repodata collection by default (#5546, #5587)
conda info now raises PackagesNotFoundError (#5655)
index building optimizations (#5776)
fix #5811 change safety_checks default to ‘warn’ for conda 4.4 (4.4.0rc1) (#5824)
add constrained dependencies to conda’s own recipe (4.4.0rc1) (#5823)
clean up parser imports (4.4.0rc2) (#5844)
resolve #5983 add --download-only flag to create, install, and update (4.4.0rc2) (#5988)
add ca-certificates and certifi to aggressive_update_packages default (4.4.0rc2) (#5994)
use environments.txt to list all known environments (4.4.0rc2) (#6313)
resolve #5417 ensure unlink order is correctly sorted (4.4.0) (#6364)
resolve #5370 index is only prefix and cache in --offline mode (4.4.0) (#6371)
reduce redundant sys call during file copying (4.4.0rc3) (#6421)
enable aggressive_update_packages (4.4.0rc3) (#6392)
default conda.sh to dash if otherwise can’t detect (4.4.0rc3) (#6414)
canonicalize package names when comparing with pip (4.4.0rc3) (#6438)
add target prefix override configuration parameter (4.4.0rc3) (#6413)
resolve #6194 warn when conda is outdated (4.4.0rc3) (#6370)
add information to displayed error report (4.4.0rc3) (#6437)
csh wrapper (4.4.0) (#6463)
resolve #5158 --override-channels (4.4.0) (#6467)
fish update for conda 4.4 (4.4.0) (#6475, #6502)
skip an unnecessary environments.txt rewrite (4.4.0) (#6495)

Bug Fixes

fix some conda-build compatibility issues (#5089)
resolve #5123 export toposort (#5124)
fix #5132 signal handler can only be used in main thread (#5133)
fix orphaned --clobber parser arg (#5188)
fix #3814 don’t remove directory that’s not a conda environment (#5204)
fix #4468 _license stack trace (#5206)
fix #4987 conda update --all no longer displays full list of packages (#5228)
fix #3489 don’t error on remove --all if environment doesn’t exist (#5231)
fix #1509 bash doesn’t need full path for pre/post link/unlink scripts on unix (#5252)
fix #462 add regression test (#5286)
fix #5288 confirmation prompt doesn’t accept no (#5291)
fix #1713 ‘conda package -w’ is case dependent on Windows (#5308)
fix #5371 try falling back to pip’s vendored requests if no requests available (#5372)
fix #5356 skip root logger configuration (#5380)
fix #5466 scrambled URL of non-alias channel with token (#5467)
fix #5444 environment.yml file not found (#5475)
fix #3200 use proper unbound checks in bash code and test (#5476)
invalidate PrefixData cache on rm_rf for conda-build (#5491, #5499)
fix exception when generating JSON output (#5628)
fix target prefix determination (#5642)
use proxy to avoid segfaults (#5716)
fix #5790 incorrect activation message (4.4.0rc1) (#5820)
fix #5808 assertion error when loading package cache (4.4.0rc1) (#5815)
fix #5809 _pip_install_via_requirements got an unexpected keyword argument ‘prune’ (4.4.0rc1) (#5814)
fix #5811 change safety_checks default to ‘warn’ for conda 4.4 (4.4.0rc1) (#5824)
fix #5825 --json output format (4.4.0rc1) (#5831)
fix force_reinstall for case when packages aren’t actually installed (4.4.0rc1) (#5836)
fix #5680 empty pip subsection error in environment.yml (4.4.0rc2) (#6275)
fix #5852 bad tokens from history crash conda installs (4.4.0rc2) (#6076)
fix #5827 no error message on invalid command (4.4.0rc2) (#6352)
fix exception handler for ‘conda activate’ (4.4.0rc2) (#6365)
fix #6173 double prompt immediately after conda 4.4 upgrade (4.4.0rc2) (#6351)
fix #6181 keep existing pythons pinned to minor version (4.4.0rc2) (#6363)
fix #6201 incorrect subdir shown for conda search when package not found (4.4.0rc2) (#6367)
fix #6045 help message and zsh shift (4.4.0rc3) (#6368)
fix noarch python package resintall (4.4.0rc3) (#6394)
fix #6366 shell activation message (4.4.0rc3) (#6369)
fix #6429 AttributeError on ‘conda remove’ (4.4.0rc3) (#6434)
fix #6449 problems with ‘conda info --envs’ (#6451)
add debug exception for #6430 (4.4.0rc3) (#6435)
fix #6441 NotImplementedError on ‘conda list’ (4.4.0rc3) (#6442)
fix #6445 scale back directory activation in PWD (4.4.0rc3) (#6447)
fix #6283 no-deps for conda update case (4.4.0rc3) (#6448)
fix #6419 set PS1 in python code (4.4.0rc3) (#6446)
fix #6466 sp_dir doesn’t exist (#6470)
fix #6350 --update-all removes too many packages (4.4.0) (#6491)
fix #6057 unlink-link order for python noarch packages on windows 4.4.x (4.4.0) (#6494)

Non-User-Facing Changes

eliminate index modification in Resolve init (#4333)
new MatchSpec implementation (#4158, #5517)
update conda.recipe for 4.4 (#5086)
resolve #5118 organization and cleanup for 4.4 release (#5115)
remove unused disk space check instructions (#5167)
localfs adapter tests (#5181)
extra config command tests (#5185)
add coverage for confirm (#5203)
clean up FileNotFoundError and DirectoryNotFoundError (#5237)
add assertion that a path only has a single hard link before rewriting prefixes (#5305)
remove pycrypto as requirement on windows (#5326)
import cleanup, dead code removal, coverage improvements, and other housekeeping (#5472, #5474, #5480)
rename CondaFileNotFoundError to PathNotFoundError (#5521)
work toward repodata API (#5267)
rename PackageNotFoundError to PackagesNotFoundError and fix message formatting (#5602)
update conda 4.4 bld.bat windows recipe (#5573)
remove last remnant of CondaEnvRuntimeError (#5643)
fix typo (4.4.0rc2) (#6043)
replace Travis-CI with CircleCI (4.4.0rc2) (#6345)
key-value features (#5645); reverted in 4.4.0rc2 (#6347, #6492)
resolve #6431 always add env_vars to info_dict (4.4.0rc3) (#6436)
move shell inside conda directory (4.4.0) (#6479)
remove dead code (4.4.0) (#6489)

4.3.34 (2018-02-09)

Bug Fixes

fix #6833 improve feature mismatch metric (#6853)

4.3.33 (2018-01-24)

Bug Fixes

fix #6718 broken ‘conda install --rev’ (#6719)
fix #6765 adjust the feature score assigned to packages not installed (#6766)

4.3.32 (2018-01-10)

Improvements

resolve #6711 fall back to copy/unlink for EINVAL, EXDEV rename failures (#6712)

Bug Fixes

fix #6057 unlink-link order for python noarch packages on windows (#6277)
fix #6509 custom_channels incorrect in ‘conda config --show’ (#6510)

4.3.31 (2017-12-15)

Improvements

add delete_trash to conda_env create (#6299)

Bug Fixes

fix #6023 assertion error for temp file (#6154)
fix #6220 --no-builds flag for ‘conda env export’ (#6221)
fix #6271 timestamp prioritization results in undesirable race-condition (#6279)

Non-User-Facing Changes

fix two failing integration tests after anaconda.org API change (#6182)
resolve #6243 mark root as not writable when sys.prefix is not a conda environment (#6274)
add timing instrumentation (#6458)

4.3.30 (2017-10-17)

Improvements

address #6056 add additional proxy variables to ‘conda info --all’ (#6083)

Bug Fixes

address #6164 move add_defaults_to_specs after augment_specs (#6172)
fix #6057 add additional detail for message ‘cannot link source that does not exist’ (#6082)
fix #6084 setting default_channels from CLI raises NotImplementedError (#6085)

4.3.29 (2017-10-09)

Bug Fixes

fix #6096 coerce to millisecond timestamps (#6131)

4.3.28 (2017-10-06)

Bug Fixes

fix #5854 remove imports of pkg_resources (#5991)
fix millisecond timestamps (#6001)

4.3.27 (2017-09-18)

Bug Fixes

fix #5980 always delete_prefix_from_linked_data in rm_rf (#5982)

4.3.26 (2017-09-15)

Deprecations/Breaking Changes

resolve #5922 prioritize channels within multi-channels (#5923)
add https://repo.continuum.io/pkgs/main to defaults multi-channel (#5931)

Improvements

add a channel priority minimization pass to solver logic (#5859)
invoke cmd.exe with /D for pre/post link/unlink scripts (#5926)
add boto3 use to s3 adapter (#5949)

Bug Fixes

always remove linked prefix entry with rm_rf (#5846)
resolve #5920 bump repodata pickle version (#5921)
fix msys2 activate and deactivate (#5950)

4.3.25 (2017-08-16)

Deprecations/Breaking Changes

resolve #5834 change default value of ‘allow_softlinks’ from True to False (#5839)

Improvements

add non-admin check to optionally disable non-privileged operation (#5724)
add extra warning message to always_softlink configuration option (#5826)

Bug Fixes

fix #5763 channel url string splitting error (#5764)
fix regex for repodata _mod and _etag (#5795)
fix uncaught OSError for missing device (#5830)

4.3.24 (2017-07-31)

Bug Fixes

fix #5708 package priority sort order (#5733)

4.3.23 (2017-07-21)

Improvements

resolve #5391 PackageNotFound and NoPackagesFoundError clean up (#5506)

Bug Fixes

fix #5525 too many Nones in CondaHttpError (#5526)
fix #5508 assertion failure after test file not cleaned up (#5533)
fix #5523 catch OSError when home directory doesn’t exist (#5549)
fix #5574 traceback formatting (#5580)
fix #5554 logger configuration levels (#5555)
fix #5649 create_default_packages configuration (#5703)

4.3.22 (2017-06-12)

Improvements

resolve #5428 clean up cli import in conda 4.3.x (#5429)
resolve #5302 add warning when creating environment with space in path (#5477)
for ftp connections, ignore host IP from PASV as it is often wrong (#5489)
expose common race condition exceptions in exports for conda-build (#5498)

Bug Fixes

fix #5451 conda clean --json bug (#5452)
fix #5400 confusing deactivate message (#5473)
fix #5459 custom subdir channel parsing (#5478)
fix #5483 problem with setuptools / pkg_resources import (#5496)

4.3.21 (2017-05-25)

Bug Fixes

fix #5420 conda-env update error (#5421)
fix #5425 is admin on win int not callable (#5426)

4.3.20 (2017-05-23)

Improvements

resolve #5217 skip user confirm in python_api, force always_yes (#5404)

Bug Fixes

fix #5367 conda info always shows ‘unknown’ for admin indicator on Windows (#5368)
fix #5248 drop plan description information that might not always be accurate (#5373)
fix #5378 duplicate log messages (#5379)
fix #5298 record has ‘build’, not ‘build_string’ (#5382)
fix #5384 silence logging info to avoid interfering with JSON output (#5393)
fix #5356 skip root/conda logger init for cli.python_api (#5405)

Non-User-Facing Changes

avoid persistent state after channel priority test (#5392)
resolve #5402 add regression test for #5384 (#5403)
clean up inner function definition inside for loop (#5406)

4.3.19 (2017-05-18)

Improvements

resolve #3689 better error messaging for missing anaconda-client (#5276)
resolve #4795 conda env export lacks -p flag (#5275)
resolve #5315 add alias verify_ssl for ssl_verify (#5316)
resolve #3399 add netrc existence/location to ‘conda info’ (#5333)
resolve #3810 add --prefix to conda env update (#5335)

Bug Fixes

fix #5272 conda env export ugliness under python2 (#5273)
fix #4596 warning message from pip on conda env export (#5274)
fix #4986 --yes not functioning for conda clean (#5311)
fix #5329 unicode errors on Windows (#5328, #5357)
fix sys_prefix_unfollowed for Python 3 (#5334)
fix #5341 --json flag with conda-env (#5342)
fix 5321 ensure variable PROMPT is set in activate.bat (#5351)

Non-User-Facing Changes

test conda 4.3 with requests 2.14.2 (#5281)
remove pycrypto as requirement on windows (#5325)
fix typo avaialble -> available (#5345)
fix test failures related to menuinst update (#5344, #5362)

4.3.18 (2017-05-09)

Improvements

resolve #4224 warn when pysocks isn’t installed (#5226)
resolve #5229 add --insecure flag to skip ssl verification (#5230)
resolve #4151 add admin indicator to conda info on windows (#5241)

Bug Fixes

fix #5152 conda info spacing (#5166)
fix --use-index-cache actually hitting the index cache (#5134)
backport LinkPathAction verify from 4.4 (#5171)
fix #5184 stack trace on invalid map configuration parameter (#5186)
fix #5189 stack trace on invalid sequence config param (#5192)
add support for the linux-aarch64 platform (#5190)
fix repodata fetch with the --offline flag (#5146)
fix #1773 conda remove spell checking (#5176)
fix #3470 reduce excessive error messages (#5195)
fix #1597 make extra sure --dry-run doesn’t take any actions (#5201)
fix #3470 extra newlines around exceptions (#5200)
fix #5214 install messages for ‘nothing_to_do’ case (#5216)
fix #598 stack trace for condarc write permission denied (#5232)
fix #4960 extra information when exception can’t be displayed (#5236)
fix #4974 no matching dist in linked data for prefix (#5239)
fix #5258 give correct element types for conda config --describe (#5259)
fix #4911 separate shutil.copy2 into copy and copystat (#5261)

Non-User-Facing Changes

resolve #5138 add test of rm_rf of symlinked files (#4373)
resolve #4516 add extra trace-level logging (#5249, #5250)
add tests for --update-deps flag (#5264)

4.3.17 (2017-04-24)

Improvements

fall back to copy if hardlink fails (#5002)
add timestamp metadata for tiebreaking conda-build 3 hashed packages (#5018)
resolve #5034 add subdirs configuration parameter (#5030)
resolve #5081 make pinned packages optional/constrained dependencies (#5088)
resolve #5108 improve behavior and add tests for spaces in paths (#4786)

Bug Fixes

quote prefix paths for locations with spaces (#5009)
remove binstar logger configuration overrides (#4989)
fix #4969 error in DirectoryNotFoundError (#4990)
fix #4998 pinned string format (#5011)
fix #5039 collecting main_info shouldn’t fail on requests import (#5090)
fix #5055 improve bad token message for anaconda.org (#5091)
fix #5033 only re-register valid signal handlers (#5092)
fix #5028 imports in main_list (#5093)
fix #5073 allow client_ssl_cert{_key} to be of type None (#5096)
fix #4671 backoff for package validate race condition (#5098)
fix #5022 gnu_get_libc_version => linux_get_libc_version (#5099)
fix #4849 package name match bug (#5103)
fixes #5102 allow proxy_servers to be of type None (#5107)
fix #5111 incorrect typify for str + NoneType (#5112)

Non-User-Facing Changes

resolve #5012 remove CondaRuntimeError and RuntimeError (#4818)
full audit ensuring relative import paths within project (#5090)
resolve #5116 refactor conda/cli/activate.py to help menuinst (#4406)

4.3.16 (2017-03-30)

Improvements

additions to configuration SEARCH_PATH to improve consistency (#4966)
add ‘conda config --describe’ and extra config documentation (#4913)
enable packaging pinning in condarc using pinned_packages config parameter as beta feature (#4921, #4964)

Bug Fixes

fix #4914 handle directory creation on top of file paths (#4922)
fix #3982 issue with CONDA_ENV and using powerline (#4925)
fix #2611 update instructions on how to source conda.fish (#4924)
fix #4860 missing information on package not found error (#4935)
fix #4944 command not found error error (#4963)

4.3.15 (2017-03-20)

Improvements

allow pkgs_dirs to be configured using conda config (#4895)

Bug Fixes

remove incorrect elision of delete_prefix_from_linked_data() (#4814)
fix envs_dirs order for read-only root prefix (#4821)
fix break-point in conda clean (#4801)
fix long shebangs when creating entry points (#4828)
fix spelling and typos (#4868, #4869)
fix #4840 TypeError reduce() of empty sequence with no initial value (#4843)
fix zos subdir (#4875)
fix exceptions triggered during activate (#4873)

4.3.14 (2017-03-03)

Improvements

use cPickle in place of pickle for repodata (#4717)
ignore pyc compile failure (#4719)
use conda.exe for windows entry point executable (#4716, #4720)
localize use of conda_signal_handler (#4730)
add skip_safety_checks configuration parameter (#4767)
never symlink executables using ORIGIN (#4625)
set activate.bat codepage to CP_ACP (#4558)

Bug Fixes

fix #4777 package cache initialization speed (#4778)
fix #4703 menuinst PathNotFoundException (#4709)
ignore permissions error if user_site can’t be read (#4710)
fix #4694 don’t import requests directly in models (#4711)
fix #4715 include resources directory in recipe (#4716)
fix CondaHttpError for URLs that contain ‘%’ (#4769)
bug fixes for preferred envs (#4678)
fix #4745 check for info/index.json with package is_extracted (#4776)
make sure url gets included in CondaHTTPError (#4779)
fix #4757 map-type configs set to None (#4774)
fix #4788 partial package extraction (#4789)

Non-User-Facing Changes

test coverage improvement (#4607)
CI configuration improvements (#4713, #4773, #4775)
allow sha256 to be None (#4759)
add cache_fn_url to exports (#4729)
add unicode paths for PY3 integration tests (#4760)
additional unit tests (#4728, #4783)
fix conda-build compatibility and tests (#4785)

4.3.13 (2017-02-17)

Improvements

resolve #4636 environment variable expansion for pkgs_dirs (#4637)
link, symlink, islink, and readlink for Windows (#4652, #4661)
add extra information to CondaHTTPError (#4638, #4672)

Bug Fixes

maximize requested builds after feature determination (#4647)
fix #4649 incorrect assert statement concerning package cache directory (#4651)
multi-user mode bug fixes (#4663)

Non-User-Facing Changes

path_actions unit tests (#4654)
remove dead code (#4369, #4655, #4660)
separate repodata logic from index into a new core/repodata.py module (#4669)

4.3.12 (2017-02-14)

Improvements

prepare conda for uploading to pypi (#4619)
better general http error message (#4627)
disable old python noarch warning (#4576)

Bug Fixes

fix UnicodeDecodeError for ensure_text_type (#4585)
fix determination of if file path is writable (#4604)
fix #4592 BufferError cannot close exported pointers exist (#4628)
fix run_script current working directory (#4629)
fix pkgs_dirs permissions regression (#4626)

Non-User-Facing Changes

fixes for tests when conda-bld directory doesn’t exist (#4606)
use requirements.txt and Makefile for travis-ci setup (#4600, #4633)
remove hasattr use from compat functions (#4634)

4.3.11 (2017-02-09)

Bug Fixes

fix attribute error in add_defaults_to_specs (#4577)

4.3.10 (2017-02-07)

Improvements

remove .json from pickle path (#4498)
improve empty repodata noarch warning and error messages (#4499)
don’t add python and lua as default specs for private envs (#4529, #4533)
let default_python be None (#4547, #4550)

Bug Fixes

fix #4513 null pointer exception for channel without noarch (#4518)
fix ssl_verify set type (#4517)
fix bug for windows multiuser (#4524)
fix clone with noarch python packages (#4535)
fix ipv6 for python 2.7 on Windows (#4554)

Non-User-Facing Changes

separate integration tests with a marker (#4532)

4.3.9 (2017-01-31)

Improvements

improve repodata caching for performance (#4478, #4488)
expand scope of packages included by bad_installed (#4402)
silence pre-link warning for old noarch (#4451)
add configuration to optionally require noarch repodata (#4450)
improve conda subprocessing (#4447)
respect info/link.json (#4482)

Bug Fixes

fix #4398 ‘hard’ was used for link type at one point (#4409)
fixed “No matches for wildcard ‘$activate_d/*.fish’” warning (#4415)
print correct activate/deactivate message for fish shell (#4423)
fix ‘Dist’ object has no attribute ‘fn’ (#4424)
fix noarch generic and add additional integration test (#4431)
fix #4425 unknown encoding (#4433)

Non-User-Facing Changes

fail CI on conda-build fail (#4405)
run doctests (#4414)
make index record mutable again (#4461)
additional test for conda list --json (#4480)

4.3.8 (2017-01-23)

Bug Fixes

fix #4309 ignore EXDEV error for directory renames (#4392)
fix #4393 by force-renaming certain backup files if the path already exists (#4397)

4.3.7 (2017-01-20)

Bug Fixes

actually revert json output for leaky plan (#4383)
fix not raising on pre/post-link error (#4382)
fix find_commands and find_executable for symlinks (#4387)

4.3.6 (2017-01-18)

Bug Fixes

fix ‘Uncaught backoff with errno 41’ warning on windows (#4366)
revert json output for leaky plan (#4349)
audit os.environ setting (#4360)
fix #4324 using old dist string instead of dist object (#4361)
fix #4351 infinite recursion via code in #4120 (#4370)
fix #4368 conda -h (#4367)
workaround for symlink race conditions on activate (#4346)

4.3.5 (2017-01-17)

Improvements

add exception message for corrupt repodata (#4315)

Bug Fixes

fix package not being found in cache after download (#4297)
fix logic for Content-Length mismatch (#4311, #4326)
use unicode_escape after etag regex instead of utf-8 (#4325)
fix #4323 central condarc file being ignored (#4327)
fix #4316 a bug in deactivate (#4316)
pass target_prefix as env_prefix regardless of is_unlink (#4332)
pass positional argument ‘context’ to BasicClobberError (#4335)

Non-User-Facing Changes

additional package pinning tests (#4317)

4.3.4 (2017-01-13)

Improvements

vendor url parsing from urllib3 (#4289)

Bug Fixes

fix some bugs in windows multi-user support (#4277)
fix problems with channels of type (#4290)
include aliases for first command-line argument (#4279)
fix for multi-line FTP status codes (#4276)

Non-User-Facing Changes

make arch in IndexRecord a StringField instead of EnumField
improve conda-build compatibility (#4266)

4.3.3 (2017-01-10)

Improvements

respect Cache-Control max-age header for repodata (#4220)
add ‘local_repodata_ttl’ configurability (#4240)
remove questionable “nothing to install” logic (#4237)
relax channel noarch requirement for 4.3; warn now, raise in future feature release (#4238)
add additional info to setup.py warning message (#4258)

Bug Fixes

remove features properly (#4236)
do not use IFS to find activate/deactivate scripts to source (#4239)
fix #4235 print message to stderr (#4241)
fix relative path to python in activate.bat (#4242)
fix args.channel references (#4245, #4246)
ensure cache_fn_url right pad (#4255)
fix #4256 subprocess calls must have env wrapped in str (#4259)

4.3.2 (2017-01-06)

Deprecations/Breaking Changes

Further refine conda channels specification. To verify if the url of a channel represents a valid conda channel, we check that noarch/repodata.json and/or noarch/repodata.json.bz2 exist, even if empty. (#3739)

Improvements

add new ‘path_conflict’ and ‘clobber’ configuration options (#4119)
separate fetch/extract pass for explicit URLs (#4125)
update conda homepage to conda.io (#4180)

Bug Fixes

fix pre/post unlink/link scripts (#4113)
fix package version regex and bug in create_link (#4132)
fix history tracking (#4143)
fix index creation order (#4131)
fix #4152 conda env export failure (#4175)
fix #3779 channel UNC path encoding errors on windows (#4190)
fix progress bar (#4191)
use context.channels instead of args.channel (#4199)
don’t use local cached repodata for file:// urls (#4209)

Non-User-Facing Changes

xfail anaconda token test if local token is found (#4124)
fix open-ended test failures relating to python 3.6 release (#4145)
extend timebomb for test_multi_channel_export (#4169)
don’t unlink dists that aren’t in the index (#4130)
add python 3.6 and new conda-build test targets (#4194)

4.3.1 (2016-12-19)

Improvements

additional pre-transaction validation (#4090)
export FileMode enum for conda-build (#4080)
memoize disk permissions tests (#4091)
local caching of repodata without remote server calls; new ‘repodata_timeout_secs’ configuration parameter (#4094)
performance tuning (#4104)
add additional fields to dist object serialization (#4102)

Bug Fixes

fix a noarch install bug on windows (#4071)
fix a spec mismatch that resulted in python versions getting mixed during packaging (#4079)
fix rollback linked record (#4092)
fix #4097 keep split in PREFIX_PLACEHOLDER (#4100)

4.3.0 (2016-12-14) Safety

New Features

Unlink and Link Packages in a Single Transaction: In the past, conda hasn’t always been safe and defensive with its disk-mutating actions. It has gleefully clobbered existing files, and mid-operation failures leave environments completely broken. In some of the most severe examples, conda can appear to “uninstall itself.” With this release, the unlinking and linking of packages for an executed command is done in a single transaction. If a failure occurs for any reason while conda is mutating files on disk, the environment will be returned its previous state. While we’ve implemented some pre-transaction checks (verifying package integrity for example), it’s impossible to anticipate every failure mechanism. In some circumstances, OS file permissions cannot be fully known until an operation is attempted and fails. And conda itself is not without bugs. Moving forward, unforeseeable failures won’t be catastrophic. (#3833, #4030)
Progressive Fetch and Extract Transactions: Like package unlinking and linking, the download and extract phases of package handling have also been given transaction-like behavior. The distinction is the rollback on error is limited to a single package. Rather than rolling back the download and extract operation for all packages, the single-package rollback prevents the need for having to re-download every package if an error is encountered. (#4021, #4030)
Generic- and Python-Type Noarch/Universal Packages: Along with conda-build 2.1.0, a noarch/universal type for python packages is officially supported. These are much like universal python wheels. Files in a python noarch package are linked into a prefix just like any other conda package, with the following additional features
1. conda maps the site-packages directory to the correct location for the python version in the environment,
2. conda maps the python-scripts directory to either $PREFIX/bin or $PREFIX/Scripts depending on platform,
3. conda creates the python entry points specified in the conda-build recipe, and
4. conda compiles pyc files at install time when prefix write permissions are guaranteed.
Python noarch packages must be “fully universal.” They cannot have OS- or python version-specific dependencies. They cannot have OS- or python version-specific “scripts” files. If these features are needed, traditional conda packages must be used. (#3712)
Multi-User Package Caches: While the on-disk package cache structure has been preserved, the core logic implementing package cache handling has had a complete overhaul. Writable and read-only package caches are fully supported. (#4021)
Python API Module: An oft requested feature is the ability to use conda as a python library, obviating the need to “shell out” to another python process. Conda 4.3 includes a conda.cli.python_api module that facilitates this use case. While we maintain the user-facing command-line interface, conda commands can be executed in-process. There is also a conda.exports module to facilitate longer-term usage of conda as a library across conda conda releases. However, conda’s python code is considered internal and private, subject to change at any time across releases. At the moment, conda will not install itself into environments other than its original install environment. (#4028)
Remove All Locks: Locking has never been fully effective in conda, and it often created a false sense of security. In this release, multi-user package cache support has been implemented for improved safety by hard-linking packages in read-only caches to the user’s primary user package cache. Still, users are cautioned that undefined behavior can result when conda is running in multiple process and operating on the same package caches and/or environments. (#3862)

Deprecations/Breaking Changes

Conda will refuse to clobber existing files that are not within the unlink instructions of the transaction. At the risk of being user-hostile, it’s a step forward for conda. We do anticipate some growing pains. For example, conda will not clobber packages that have been installed with pip (or any other package manager). In other instances, conda packages that contain overlapping file paths but are from different package families will not install at the same time. The --force command line flag is the escape hatch. Using --force will let your operation proceed, but also makes clear that you want conda to do something it considers unsafe.
Conda signed packages have been removed in 4.3. Vulnerabilities existed. An illusion of security is worse than not having the feature at all. We will be incorporating The Update Framework into conda in a future feature release. (#4064)
Conda 4.4 will drop support for older versions of conda-build.

Improvements

create a new “trace” log level enabled by -v -v -v or -vvv (#3833)
allow conda to be installed with pip, but only when used as a library/dependency (#4028)
the ‘r’ channel is now part of defaults (#3677)
private environment support for conda (#3988)
support v1 info/paths.json file (#3927, #3943)
support v1 info/package_metadata.json (#4030)
improved solver hint detection, simplified filtering (#3597)
cache VersionOrder objects to improve performance (#3596)
fix documentation and typos (#3526, #3572, #3627)
add multikey configuration validation (#3432)
some Fish autocompletions (#2519)
reduce priority for packages removed from the index (#3703)
add user-agent, uid, gid to conda info (#3671)
add conda.exports module (#3429)
make http timeouts configurable (#3832)
add a pkgs_dirs config parameter (#3691)
add an ‘always_softlink’ option (#3870, #3876)
pre-checks for diskspace, etc for fetch and extract #(4007)
address #3879 don’t print activate message when quiet config is enabled (#3886)
add zos-z subdir (#4060)
add elapsed time to HTTP errors (#3942)

Bug Fixes

account for the Windows Python 2.7 os.environ unicode aversion (#3363)
fix link field in record object (#3424)
anaconda api token bug fix; additional tests (#3673)
fix #3667 unicode literals and unicode decode (#3682)
add conda-env entrypoint (#3743)
fix #3807 json dump on conda config --show --json (#3811)
fix #3801 location of temporary hard links of index.json (#3813)
fix invalid yml example (#3849)
add arm platforms back to subdirs (#3852)
fix #3771 better error message for assertion errors (#3802)
fix #3999 spaces in shebang replacement (#4008)
config --show-sources shouldn’t show force by default (#3891)
fix #3881 don’t install conda-env in clones of root (#3899)
conda-build dist compatibility (#3909)

Non-User-Facing Changes

remove unnecessary eval (#3428)
remove dead install_tar function (#3641)
apply PEP-8 to conda-env (#3653)
refactor dist into an object (#3616)
vendor appdirs; remove conda’s dependency on anaconda-client import (#3675)
revert boto patch from #2380 (#3676)
move and update ROOT_NO_RM (#3697)
integration tests for conda clean (#3695, #3699)
disable coverage on s3 and ftp requests adapters (#3696, #3701)
github repo hygiene (#3705, #3706)
major install refactor (#3712)
remove test timebombs (#4012)
LinkType refactor (#3882)
move CrossPlatformStLink and make available as export (#3887)
make Record immutable (#3965)
project housekeeping (#3994, #4065)
context-dependent setup.py files (#4057)

4.2.17 (unreleased)

Improvements

silence pre-link warning for old noarch 4.2.x backport (#4453)

Bug Fixes

remove incorrect elision of delete_prefix_from_linked_data() (#4813)
fix CB #1825 context clobbering (#4867)
fix #5101 api->conda regex substitution for Anaconda API channels (#5100)

Non-User-Facing Changes

build 4.2.x against conda-build 2.1.2 and enforce passing (#4462)

4.2.16 (2017-01-20)

Improvements

vendor url parsing from urllib3 (#4289)
workaround for symlink race conditions on activate (#4346)

Bug Fixes

do not replace \ with / in file:// URLs on Windows (#4269)
include aliases for first command-line argument (#4279)
fix for multi-line FTP status codes (#4276)
fix errors with unknown type channels (#4291)
change sys.exit to raise UpgradeError when info/files not found (#4388)

Non-User-Facing Changes

start using doctests in test runs and coverage (#4304)
additional package pinning tests (#4312)

4.2.15 (2017-01-10)

Improvements

use ‘post’ instead of ‘dev’ for commits according to PEP-440 (#4234)
do not use IFS to find activate/deactivate scripts to source (#4243)
fix relative path to python in activate.bat (#4244)

Bug Fixes

replace sed with python for activate and deactivate #4257

4.2.14 (2017-01-07)

Improvements

use install.rm_rf for TemporaryDirectory cleanup (#3425)
improve handling of local dependency information (#2107)
add default channels to exports for Windows and Unix (#4103)
make subdir configurable (#4178)

Bug Fixes

fix conda/install.py single-file behavior (#3854)
fix the api->conda substitution (#3456)
fix silent directory removal (#3730)
fix location of temporary hard links of index.json (#3975)
fix potential errors in multi-channel export and offline clone (#3995)
fix auxlib/packaging, git hashes are not limited to 7 characters (#4189)
fix compatibility with requests >=2.12, add pyopenssl as dependency (#4059)
fix #3287 activate in 4.1-4.2.3 clobbers non-conda PATH changes (#4211)

Non-User-Facing Changes

fix open-ended test failures relating to python 3.6 release (#4166)
allow args passed to cli.main() (#4193, #4200, #4201)
test against python 3.6 (#4197)

4.2.13 (2016-11-22)

Deprecations/Breaking Changes

show warning message for pre-link scripts (#3727)
error and exit for install of packages that require conda minimum version 4.3 (#3726)

Improvements

double/extend http timeouts (#3831)
let descriptive http errors cover more http exceptions (#3834)
backport some conda-build configuration (#3875)

Bug Fixes

fix conda/install.py single-file behavior (#3854)
fix the api->conda substitution (#3456)
fix silent directory removal (#3730)
fix #3910 null check for is_url (#3931)

Non-User-Facing Changes

flake8 E116, E121, & E123 enabled (#3883)

4.2.12 (2016-11-02)

Bug Fixes

fix #3732, #3471, #3744 CONDA_BLD_PATH (#3747)
fix #3717 allow no-name channels (#3748)
fix #3738 move conda-env to ruamel_yaml (#3740)
fix conda-env entry point (#3745 via #3743)
fix again #3664 trash emptying (#3746)

4.2.11 (2016-10-23)

Improvements

only try once for windows trash removal (#3698)

Bug Fixes

fix anaconda api token bug (#3674)
fix #3646 FileMode enum comparison (#3683)
fix #3517 conda install --mkdir (#3684)
fix #3560 hack anaconda token coverup on conda info (#3686)
fix #3469 alias envs_path to envs_dirs (#3685)

4.2.10 (2016-10-18)

Improvements

add json output for conda info -s (#3588)
ignore certain binary prefixes on windows (#3539)
allow conda config files to have .yaml extensions or ‘condarc’ anywhere in filename (#3633)

Bug Fixes

fix conda-build’s handle_proxy_407 import (#3666)
fix #3442, #3459, #3481, #3531, #3548 multiple networking and auth issues (#3550)
add back linux-ppc64le subdir support (#3584)
fix #3600 ensure links are removed when unlinking (#3625)
fix #3602 search channels by platform (#3629)
fix duplicated packages when updating environment (#3563)
fix #3590 exception when parsing invalid yaml (#3593 via #3634)
fix #3655 a string decoding error (#3656)

Non-User-Facing Changes

backport conda.exports module to 4.2.x (#3654)
travis-ci OSX fix (#3615 via #3657)

4.2.9 (2016-09-27)

Bug Fixes

fix #3536 conda-env messaging to stdout with --json flag (#3537)
fix #3525 writing to sys.stdout with --json flag for post-link scripts (#3538)
fix #3492 make NULL falsey with python 3 (#3524)

4.2.8 (2016-09-26)

Improvements

add “error” key back to json error output (#3523)

Bug Fixes

fix #3453 conda fails with create_default_packages (#3454)
fix #3455 --dry-run fails (#3457)
dial down error messages for rm_rf (#3522)
fix #3467 AttributeError encountered for map config parameter validation (#3521)

4.2.7 (2016-09-16)

Deprecations/Breaking Changes

revert to 4.1.x behavior of conda list --export (#3450, #3451)

Bug Fixes

don’t add binstar token if it’s given in the channel spec (#3427, #3440, #3444)
fix #3433 failure to remove broken symlinks (#3436)

Non-User-Facing Changes

use install.rm_rf for TemporaryDirectory cleanup (#3425)

4.2.6 (2016-09-14)

Improvements

add support for client TLS certificates (#3419)
address #3267 allow migration of channel_alias (#3410)
conda-env version matches conda version (#3422)

Bug Fixes

fix #3409 unsatisfiable dependency error message (#3412)
fix #3408 quiet rm_rf (#3413)
fix #3407 padding error messaging (#3416)
account for the Windows Python 2.7 os.environ unicode aversion (#3363 via #3420)

4.2.5 (2016-09-08)

Deprecations/Breaking Changes

partially revert #3041 giving conda config --add previous --prepend behavior (#3364 via #3370)
partially revert #2760 adding back conda package command (#3398)

Improvements

order output of conda config --show; make --json friendly (#3384 via #3386)
clean the pid based lock on exception (#3325)
improve file removal on all platforms (#3280 via #3396)

Bug Fixes

fix #3332 allow download urls with :: in them (#3335)
fix always_yes and not-set argparse args overriding other sources (#3374)
fix ftp fetch timeout (#3392)
fix #3307 add try/except block for touch lock (#3326)
fix CONDA_CHANNELS environment variable splitting (#3390)
fix #3378 CONDA_FORCE_32BIT environment variable (#3391)
make conda info channel urls actually give urls (#3397)
fix cio_test compatibility (#3395 via #3400)

4.2.4 (2016-08-18)

Bug Fixes

fix #3277 conda list package order (#3278)
fix channel priority issue with duplicated channels (#3283)
fix local channel channels; add full conda-build unit tests (#3281)
fix conda install with no package specified (#3284)
fix #3253 exporting and importing conda environments (#3286)
fix priority messaging on conda config --get (#3304)
fix conda list --export; additional integration tests (#3291)
fix conda update --all idempotence; add integration tests for channel priority (#3306)

Non-User-Facing Changes

additional conda-env integration tests (#3288)

4.2.3 (2016-08-11)

Improvements

added zsh and zsh.exe to Windows shells (#3257)

Bug Fixes

allow conda to downgrade itself (#3273)
fix breaking changes to conda-build from 4.2.2 (#3265)
fix empty environment issues with conda and conda-env (#3269)

Non-User-Facing Changes

add integration tests for conda-env (#3270)
add more conda-build smoke tests (#3274)

4.2.2 (2016-08-09)

Improvements

enable binary prefix replacement on windows (#3262)
add --verbose command line flag (#3237)
improve logging and exception detail (#3237, #3252)
do not remove empty environment without asking; raise an error when a named environment can’t be found (#3222)

Bug Fixes

fix #3226 user condarc not available on Windows (#3228)
fix some bugs in conda config --show* (#3212)
fix conda-build local channel bug (#3202)
remove subprocess exiting message (#3245)
fix comment parsing and channels in conda-env environment.yml (#3258, #3259)
fix context error with conda-env (#3232)
fix #3182 conda install silently skipping failed linking (#3184)

4.2.1 (2016-08-01)

Improvements

improve an error message that can happen during conda install --revision (#3181)
use clean sys.exit with user choice ‘No’ (#3196)

Bug Fixes

critical fix for 4.2.0 error when no git is on PATH (#3193)
revert #3171 lock cleaning on exit pending further refinement
patches for conda-build compatibility with 4.2 (#3187)
fix a bug in --show-sources output that ignored aliased parameter names (#3189)

Non-User-Facing Changes

move scripts in bin to shell directory (#3186)

4.2.0 (2016-07-28) Configuration

New Features

New Configuration Engine: Configuration and “operating context” are the foundation of conda’s functionality. Conda now has the ability to pull configuration information from a multitude of on-disk locations, including .d directories and a .condarc file within a conda environment), along with full CONDA_ environment variable support. Helpful validation errors are given for improperly-specified configuration. Full documentation updates pending. (#2537, #3160, #3178)
New Exception Handling Engine: Previous releases followed a pattern of premature exiting (with hard calls to sys.exit() when exceptional circumstances were encountered. This release replaces over 100 sys.exit calls with python exceptions. For conda developers, this will result in tests that are easier to write. For developers using conda, this is a first step on a long path toward conda being directly importable. For conda users, this will eventually result in more helpful and descriptive errors messages. (#2899, #2993, #3016, #3152, #3045)
Empty Environments: Conda can now create “empty” environments when no initial packages are specified, alleviating a common source of confusion. (#3072, #3174)
Conda in Private Env: Conda can now be configured to live within its own private environment. While it’s not yet default behavior, this represents a first step toward separating the root environment into a “conda private” environment and a “user default” environment. (#3068)
Regex Version Specification: Regular expressions are now valid version specifiers. For example, ^1\.[5-8]\.1$|2.2. (#2933)

Deprecations/Breaking Changes

remove conda init (#2759)
remove conda package and conda bundle (#2760)
deprecate conda-env repo; pull into conda proper (#2950, #2952, #2954, #3157, #3163, #3170)
force use of ruamel_yaml (#2762)
implement conda config --prepend; change behavior of --add to --append (#3041)
exit on link error instead of logging it (#2639)

Improvements

improve locking (#2962, #2989, #3048, #3075)
clean up requests usage for fetching packages (#2755)
remove excess output from conda --help (#2872)
remove os.remove in update_prefix (#3006)
better error behavior if conda is spec’d for a non-root environment (#2956)
scale back try_write function on unix (#3076)

Bug Fixes

remove psutil requirement, fixes annoying error message (#3135, #3183)
fix #3124 add threading lock to memoize (#3134)
fix a failure with multi-threaded repodata downloads (#3078)
fix windows file url (#3139)
address #2800, error with environment.yml and non-default channels (#3164)

Non-User-Facing Changes

project structure enhancement (#2929, #3132, #3133, #3136)
clean up channel handling with new channel model (#3130, #3151)
add Anaconda Cloud / Binstar auth handler (#3142)
remove dead code (#2761, #2969)
code refactoring and additional tests (#3052, #3020)
remove auxlib from project root (#2931)
vendor auxlib 0.0.40 (#2932, #2943, #3131)
vendor toolz 0.8.0 (#2994)
move progressbar to vendor directory (#2951)
fix conda.recipe for new quirks with conda-build (#2959)
move captured function to common module (#3083)
rename CHANGELOG to md (#3087)

4.1.13 (unreleased)

improve handling of local dependency information, #2107
show warning message for pre-link scripts, #3727
error and exit for install of packages that require conda minimum version 4.3, #3726
fix conda/install.py single-file behavior, #3854
fix open-ended test failures relating to python 3.6 release, #4167
fix #3287 activate in 4.1-4.2.3 clobbers non-conda PATH changes, #4211
fix relative path to python in activate.bat, #4244

4.1.12 (2016-09-08)

fix #2837 “File exists” in symlinked path with parallel activations, #3210
fix prune option when installing packages, #3354
change check for placeholder to be more friendly to long PATH, #3349

4.1.11 (2016-07-26)

fix PS1 backup in activate script, #3135 via #3155
correct resolution for ‘handle failures in binstar_client more generally’, #3156

4.1.10 (2016-07-25)

ignore symlink failure because of read-only file system, #3055
backport shortcut tests, #3064
fix #2979 redefinition of $SHELL variable, #3081
fix #3060 --clone root --copy exception, #3080

4.1.9 (2016-07-20)

fix #3104, add global BINSTAR_TOKEN_PAT
handle failures in binstar_client more generally

4.1.8 (2016-07-12)

fix #3004 UNAUTHORIZED for url (null binstar token), #3008
fix overwrite existing redirect shortcuts when symlinking envs, #3025
partially revert no default shortcuts, #3032, #3047

4.0.11 2016-07-09

allow auto_update_conda from sysrc, #3015 via #3021

4.1.7 (2016-07-07)

add msys2 channel to defaults on Windows, #2999
fix #2939 channel_alias issues; improve offline enforcement, #2964
fix #2970, #2974 improve handling of file:// URLs inside channel, #2976

4.1.6 (2016-07-01)

slow down exp backoff from 1 ms to 100 ms factor, #2944
set max time on exp_backoff to ~6.5 sec,#2955
fix #2914 add/subtract from PATH; kill folder output text, #2917
normalize use of get_index behavior across clone/explicit, #2937
wrap root prefix check with normcase, #2938

4.1.5 (2016-06-29)

more conservative auto updates of conda #2900
fix some permissions errors with more aggressive use of move_path_to_trash, #2882
fix #2891 error if allow_other_channels setting is used, #2896
fix #2886, #2907 installing a tarball directly from the package cache, #2908
fix #2681, #2778 reverting #2320 lock behavior changes, #2915

4.0.10 (2016-06-29)

fix #2846 revert the use of UNC paths; shorten trash filenames, #2859 via #2878
fix some permissions errors with more aggressive use of move_path_to_trash, #2882 via #2894

4.1.4 (2016-06-27)

fix #2846 revert the use of UNC paths; shorten trash filenames, #2859
fix exp backoff on Windows, #2860
fix #2845 URL for local file repos, #2862
fix #2764 restore full path var on win; create to CONDA_PREFIX env var, #2848
fix #2754 improve listing pip installed packages, #2873
change root prefix detection to avoid clobbering root activate scripts, #2880
address #2841 add lowest and highest priority indication to channel config output, #2875
add SYMLINK_CONDA to planned instructions, #2861
use CONDA_PREFIX, not CONDA_DEFAULT_ENV for activate.d, #2856
call scripts with redirect on win; more error checking to activate, #2852

4.1.3 (2016-06-23)

ensure conda-env auto update, along with conda, #2772
make yaml booleans behave how everyone expects them to, #2784
use accept-encoding for repodata; prefer repodata.json to repodata.json.bz2, #2821
additional integration and regression tests, #2757, #2774, #2787
add offline mode to printed info; use offline flag when grabbing channels, #2813
show conda-env version in conda info, #2819
adjust channel priority superseded list, #2820
support epoch ! characters in command line specs, #2832
accept old default names and new ones when canonicalizing channel URLs #2839
push PATH, PS1 manipulation into shell scripts, #2796
fix #2765 broken source activate without arguments, #2806
fix standalone execution of install.py, #2756
fix #2810 activating conda environment broken with git bash on Windows, #2795
fix #2805, #2781 handle both file-based channels and explicit file-based URLs, #2812
fix #2746 conda create --clone of root, #2838
fix #2668, #2699 shell recursion with activate #2831

4.1.2 (2016-06-17)

improve messaging for “downgrades” due to channel priority, #2718
support conda config channel append/prepend, handle duplicates, #2730
remove --shortcuts option to internal CLI code, #2723
fix an issue concerning space characters in paths in activate.bat, #2740
fix #2732 restore yes/no/on/off for booleans on the command line, #2734
fix #2642 tarball install on Windows, #2729
fix #2687, #2697 WindowsError when creating environments on Windows, #2717
fix #2710 link instruction in conda create causes TypeError, #2715
revert #2514, #2695, disabling of .netrc files, #2736
revert #2281 printing progress bar to terminal, #2707

4.1.1 (2016-06-16)

add auto_update_conda config parameter, #2686
fix #2669 conda config --add channels can leave out defaults, #2670
fix #2703 ignore activate symlink error if links already exist, #2705
fix #2693 install duplicate packages with older version of Anaconda, #2701
fix #2677 respect HTTP_PROXY, #2695
fix #2680 broken fish integration, #2685, #2694
fix an issue with conda never exiting, #2689
fix #2688 explicit file installs, #2708
fix #2700 conda list UnicodeDecodeError, #2706

4.0.9 (2016-06-15)

add auto_update_conda config parameter, #2686

4.1.0 (2016-06-14) Channel Priority

clean up activate and deactivate scripts, moving back to conda repo, #1727, #2265, #2291, #2473, #2501, #2484
replace pyyaml with ruamel_yaml, #2283, #2321
better handling of channel collisions, #2323, #2369 #2402, #2428
improve listing of pip packages with conda list, #2275
re-license progressbar under BSD 3-clause, #2334
reduce the amount of extraneous info in hints, #2261
add --shortcuts option to install shortcuts on windows, #2623
skip binary replacement on windows, #2630
don’t show channel urls by default in conda list, #2282
package resolution and solver tweaks, #2443, #2475, #2480
improved version & build matching, #2442, #2488
print progress to the terminal rather than stdout, #2281
verify version specs given on command line are valid, #2246
fix for try_write function in case of odd permissions, #2301
fix a conda search --spec error, #2343
update User-Agent for conda connections, #2347
remove some dead code paths, #2338, #2374
fixes a thread safety issue with http requests, #2377, #2383
manage BeeGFS hard-links non-POSIX configuration, #2355
prevent version downgrades during removes, #2394
fix conda info --json, #2445
truncate shebangs over 127 characters using /usr/bin/env, #2479
extract packages to a temporary directory then rename, #2425, #2483
fix help in install, #2460
fix re-install bug when sha1 differs, #2507
fix a bug with file deletion, #2499
disable .netrc files, #2514
dont fetch index on remove --all, #2553
allow track_features to be a string or a list in .condarc, #2541
fix #2415 infinite recursion in invalid_chains, #2566
allow channel_alias to be different than binstar, #2564

4.0.8 (2016-06-03)

fix a potential problem with moving files to trash, #2587

4.0.7 (2016-05-26)

workaround for boto bug, #2380

4.0.6 (2016-05-11)

log “custom” versions as updates rather than downgrades, #2290
fixes a TypeError exception that can occur on install/update, #2331
fixes an error on Windows removing files with long path names, #2452

4.0.5 (2016-03-16)

improved help documentation for install, update, and remove, #2262
fixes #2229 and #2250 related to conda update errors on Windows, #2251
fixes #2258 conda list for pip packages on Windows, #2264

4.0.4 (2016-03-10)

revert #2217 closing request sessions, #2233

4.0.3 (2016-03-10)

adds a conda clean --all feature, #2211
solver performance improvements, #2209
fixes conda list for pip packages on windows, #2216
quiets some logging for package downloads under python 3, #2217
more urls for conda list --explicit, #1855
prefer more “latest builds” for more packages, #2227
fixes a bug with dependency resolution and features, #2226

4.0.2 (2016-03-08)

fixes track_features in ~/.condarc being a list, see also #2203
fixes incorrect path in lock file error #2195
fixes issues with cloning environments, #2193, #2194
fixes a strange interaction between features and versions, #2206
fixes a bug in low-level SAT clause generation creating a preference for older versions, #2199

4.0.1 (2016-03-07)

fixes an install issue caused by md5 checksum mismatches, #2183
remove auxlib build dependency, #2188

4.0.0 (2016-03-04) Solver

The solver has been retooled significantly. Performance should be improved in most circumstances, and a number of issues involving feature conflicts should be resolved.
conda update <package> now handles dependencies properly according to the setting of the “update_deps” configuration: –update-deps: conda will also update any dependencies as needed to install the latest version of the requested packages. The minimal set of changes required to achieve this is sought. –no-update-deps: conda will update the packages only to the extent that no updates to the dependencies are required The previous behavior, which would update the packages without regard to their dependencies, could result in a broken configuration, and has been removed.
Conda finally has an official logo.
Fix conda clean --packages on Windows, #1944
Conda sub-commands now support dashes in names, #1840

3.19.4 (unreleased)

improve handling of local dependency information, #2107
use install.rm_rf for TemporaryDirectory cleanup, #3425
fix the api->conda substitution, #3456
error and exit for install of packages that require conda minimum version 4.3, #3726
show warning message for pre-link scripts, #3727
fix silent directory removal, #3730
fix conda/install.py single-file behavior, #3854

3.19.3 (2016-02-19)

fix critical issue, see #2106

3.19.2 (2016-02-19)

add basic activate/deactivate, conda activate/deactivate/ls for fish, see #545
remove error when CONDA_FORCE_32BIT is set on 32-bit systems, #1985
suppress help text for --unknown option, #2051
fix issue with conda create --clone post-link scripts, #2007
fix a permissions issue on windows, #2083

3.19.1 (2016-02-01)

resolve.py: properly escape periods in version numbers, #1926
support for pinning Lua by default, #1934
remove hard-coded test URLs, a module cio_test is now expected when CIO_TEST is set

3.19.0 (2015-12-17)

OpenBSD 5.x support, #1891
improve install CLI to make Miniconda -f work, #1905

3.18.9 (2015-12-10)

allow chaining default_channels (only applies to “system” condarc), from from CLI, #1886
improve default for --show-channel-urls in conda list, #1900

3.18.8 (2015-12-03)

always attempt to delete files in rm_rf, #1864

3.18.7 (2015-12-02)

simplify call to menuinst.install()
add menuinst as dependency on Windows
add ROOT_PREFIX to post-link (and pre_unlink) environment

3.18.6 (2015-11-19)

improve conda clean when user lacks permissions, #1807
make show_channel_urls default to True, #1771
cleaner write tests, #1735
fix documentation, #1709
improve conda clean when directories don’t exist, #1808

3.18.5 (2015-11-11)

fix bad menuinst exception handling, #1798
add workaround for unresolved dependencies on Windows

3.18.4 (2015-11-09)

allow explicit file to contain MD5 hashsums
add --md5 option to “conda list --explicit”
stop infinite recursion during certain resolve operations, #1749
add dependencies even if strictness == 3, #1766

3.18.3 (2015-10-15)

added a pruning step for more efficient solves, #1702
disallow conda-env to be installed into non-root environment
improve error output for bad command input, #1706
pass env name and setup cmd to menuinst, #1699

3.18.2 (2015-10-12)

add “conda list --explicit” which contains the URLs of all conda packages to be installed, and can used with the install/create --file option, #1688
fix a potential issue in conda clean
avoid issues with LookupErrors when updating Python in the root environment on Windows
don’t fetch the index from the network with conda remove
when installing conda packages directly, “conda install .tar.bz2”, unlink any installed package with that name (not just the installed one)
allow menu items to be installed in non-root env, #1692

3.18.1 (2015-09-28)

fix: removed reference to win_ignore_root in plan module

3.18.0 (2015-09-28)

allow Python to be updated in root environment on Windows, #1657
add defaults to specs after getting pinned specs (allows to pin a different version of Python than what is installed)
show what older versions are in the solutions in the resolve debug log
fix some issues with Python 3.5
respect --no-deps when installing from .tar or .tar.bz2
avoid infinite recursion with NoPackagesFound and conda update --all --file
fix conda update --file
toposort: Added special case to remove ‘pip’ dependency from ‘python’
show dotlog messages during hint generation with --debug
disable the max_only heuristic during hint generation
new version comparison algorithm, which consistently compares any version string, and better handles version strings using things like alpha, beta, rc, post, and dev. This should remove any inconsistent version comparison that would lead to conda installing an incorrect version.
use the trash in rm_rf, meaning more things will get the benefit of the trash system on Windows
add the ability to pass the --file argument multiple times
add conda upgrade alias for conda update
add update_dependencies condarc option and --update-deps/–no-update-deps command line flags
allow specs with conda update --all
add --show-channel-urls and --no-show-channel-urls command line options
add always_copy condarc option
conda clean properly handles multiple envs directories. This breaks backwards compatibility with some of the --json output. Some of the old –json keys are kept for backwards compatibility.

3.17.0 (2015-09-11)

add windows_forward_slashes option to walk_prefix(), see #1513
add ability to set CONDA_FORCE_32BIT environment variable, it should should only be used when running conda-build, #1555
add config option to makes the python dependency on pip optional, #1577
fix an UnboundLocalError
print note about pinned specs in no packages found error
allow wildcards in AND-connected version specs
print pinned specs to the debug log
fix conda create --clone with create_default_packages
give a better error when a proxy isn’t found for a given scheme
enable running ‘conda run’ in offline mode
fix issue where hardlinked cache contents were being overwritten
correctly skip packages whose dependencies can’t be found with conda update --all
use clearer terminology in -m help text.
use splitlines to break up multiple lines throughout the codebase
fix AttributeError with SSLError

3.16.0 (2015-08-10)

rename binstar -> anaconda, see #1458
fix --use-local when the conda-bld directory doesn’t exist
fixed --offline option when using “conda create --clone”, see #1487
don’t mask recursion depth errors
add conda search --reverse-dependency
check whether hardlinking is available before linking when using “python install.py --link” directly, see #1490
don’t exit nonzero when installing a package with no dependencies
check which features are installed in an environment via track_features, not features
set the verify flag directly on CondaSession (fixes conda skeleton not respecting the ssl_verify option)

3.15.1 (2015-07-23)

fix conda with older versions of argcomplete
restore the --force-pscheck option as a no-op for backwards compatibility

3.15.0 (2015-07-22)

sort the output of conda info package correctly
enable tab completion of conda command extensions using argcomplete. Command extensions that import conda should use conda.cli.conda_argparse.ArgumentParser instead of argparse.ArgumentParser. Otherwise, they should enable argcomplete completion manually.
allow psutil and pycosat to be updated in the root environment on Windows
remove all mentions of pscheck. The --force-pscheck flag has been removed.
added support for S3 channels
fix color issues from pip in conda list on Windows
add support for other machine types on Linux, in particular ppc64le
add non_x86_linux_machines set to config module
allow ssl_verify to accept strings in addition to boolean values in condarc
enable --set to work with both boolean and string values

3.14.1 (2015-06-29)

make use of Crypto.Signature.PKCS1_PSS module, see #1388
note when features are being used in the unsatisfiable hint

3.14.0 (2015-06-16)

add ability to verify signed packages, see #1343 (and conda-build #430)
fix issue when trying to add ‘pip’ dependency to old python packages
provide option “conda info --unsafe-channels” for getting unobscured channel list, #1374

3.13.0 (2015-06-04)

avoid the Windows file lock by moving files to a trash directory, #1133
handle env dirs not existing in the Environments completer
rename binstar.org -> anaconda.org, see #1348
speed up ‘source activate’ by ~40%

3.12.0 (2015-05-05)

correctly allow conda to update itself
print which file leads to the “unable to remove file” error on Windows
add support for the no_proxy environment variable, #1171
add a much faster hint generation for unsatisfiable packages, which is now always enabled (previously it would not run if there were more than ten specs). The new hint only gives one set of conflicting packages, rather than all sets, so multiple passes may be necessary to fix such issues
conda extensions that import conda should use conda.cli.conda_argparser.ArgumentParser instead of argparse.ArgumentParser to conform to the conda help guidelines (e.g., all help messages should be capitalized with periods, and the options should be preceded by “Options:” for the sake of help2man).
add confirmation dialog to conda remove. Fixes conda remove --dry-run.

3.11.0 (2015-04-22)

fix issue where forced update on Windows could cause a package to break
remove detection of running processes that might conflict
deprecate --force-pscheck (now a no-op argument)
make conda search --outdated --names-only work, fixes #1252
handle the history file not having read or write permissions better
make multiple package resolutions warning easier to read
add --full-name to conda list
improvements to command help

3.10.1 (2015-04-06)

fix logic in @memoized for unhashable args
restored json cache of repodata, see #1249
hide binstar tokens in conda info --json
handle CIO_TEST='2 ’
always find the solution with minimal number of packages, even if there are many solutions
allow comments at the end of the line in requirement files
don’t update the progressbar until after the item is finished running
add conda/ to HTTP header User-Agent string

3.10.0 (2015-03-12)

change default repo urls to be https
add --offline to conda search
add --names-only and --full-name to conda search
add tab completion for packages to conda search

3.9.1 (2015-02-24)

pscheck: check for processes in the current environment, see #1157
don’t write to the history file if nothing has changed, see #1148
conda update --all installs packages without version restrictions (except for Python), see #1138
conda update --all ignores the anaconda metapackage, see #1138
use forward slashes for file urls on Windows
don’t symlink conda in the root environment from activate
use the correct package name in the progress bar info
use json progress bars for unsatisfiable dependencies hints
don’t let requests decode gz files when downloaded

3.9.0 (2015-02-16)

remove (de)activation scripts from conda, those are now in conda-env
pip is now always added as a Python dependency
allow conda to be installed into environments which start with _
add argcomplete tab completion for environments with the -n flag, and for package names with install, update, create, and remove

3.8.4 (2015-02-03)

copy (de)activate scripts from conda-env
Add noarch (sub) directory support

3.8.3 (2015-01-28)

simplified how ROOT_PREFIX is obtained in (de)activate

3.8.2 (2015-01-27)

add conda clean --source-cache to clean the conda build source caches
add missing quotes in (de)activate.bat, fixes problem in Windows when conda is installed into a directory with spaces
fix conda install --copy

3.8.1 (2015-01-23)

add missing utf-8 decoding, fixes Python 3 bug when icondata to json file

3.8.0 (2015-01-22)

move active script into conda-env, which is now a new dependency
load the channel urls in the correct order when using concurrent.futures
add optional ‘icondata’ key to json files in conda-meta directory, which contain the base64 encoded png file or the icon
remove a debug print statement

3.7.4 (2014-12-18)

add --offline option to install, create, update and remove commands, and also add ability to set “offline: True” in condarc file
add conda uninstall as alias for conda remove
add conda info --root
add conda.pip module
fix CONDARC pointing to non-existing file, closes issue #961
make update -f work if the package is already up-to-date
fix possible TypeError when printing an error message
link packages in topologically sorted order (so that pre-link scripts can assume that the dependencies are installed)
add --copy flag to install
prevent the progressbar from crashing conda when fetching in some situations

3.7.3 (2014-11-05)

conda install from a local conda package (or a tar fill which contains conda packages), will now also install the dependencies listed by the installed packages.
add SOURCE_DIR environment variable in pre-link subprocess
record all created environments in ~/.conda/environments.txt

3.7.2 (2014-10-31)

only show the binstar install message once
print the fetching repodata dot after the repodata is fetched
write the install and remove specs to the history file
add ‘-y’ as an alias to ‘–yes’
the --file option to conda config now defaults to os.environ.get(‘CONDARC’)
some improvements to documentation (–help output)
add user_rc_path and sys_rc_path to conda info --json
cache the proxy username and password
avoid warning about conda in pscheck
make ~/.conda/envs the first user envs dir

3.7.1 (2014-10-07)

improve error message for forgetting to use source with activate and deactivate, see issue #601
don’t allow to remove the current environment, see issue #639
don’t fail if binstar_client can’t be imported for other reasons, see issue #925
allow spaces to be contained in conda run
only show the conda install binstar hint if binstar is not installed
conda info package_spec now gives detailed info on packages. conda info path has been removed, as it is duplicated by conda package -w path.

3.7.0 (2014-09-19)

faster algorithm for --alt-hint
don’t allow channel_alias with allow_other_channels: false if it is set in the system .condarc
don’t show long “no packages found” error with update --all
automatically add the Binstar token to urls when the binstar client is installed and logged in
carefully avoid showing the binstar token or writing it to a file
be more careful in conda config about keys that are the wrong type
don’t expect directories starting with conda- to be commands
no longer recommend to run conda init after pip installing conda. A pip installed conda will now work without being initialized to create and manage other environments
the rm function on Windows now works around access denied errors
fix channel urls now showing with conda list with show_channel_urls set to true

3.6.4 (2014-09-08)

fix removing packages that aren’t in the channels any more
Pretties output for --alt-hint

3.6.3 (2014-09-04)

skip packages that can’t be found with update --all
add --use-local to search and remove
allow --use-local to be used along with -c (–channels) and –override-channels. --override-channels now requires either -c or –use-local
allow paths in has_prefix to be quoted, to allow for spaces in paths on Windows
retain Unix style path separators for prefixes in has_prefix on Windows (if the placeholder path uses /, replace it with a path that uses /, not )
fix bug in --use-local due to API changes in conda-build
include user site directories in conda info -s
make binary has_prefix replacement work with spaces after the prefix
make binary has_prefix replacement replace multiple occurrences of the placeholder in the same null-terminated string
don’t show packages from other platforms as installed or cached in conda search
be more careful about not warning about conda itself in pscheck
Use a progress bar for the unsatisfiable packages hint generation
Don’t use TemporaryFile in try_write, as it is too slow when it fails
Ignore InsecureRequestWarning when ssl_verify is False
conda remove removes features tracked by removed packages in track_features

3.6.2 (2014-08-20)

add --use-index-cache to conda remove
fix a bug where features (like mkl) would be selected incorrectly
use concurrent.future.ThreadPool to fetch package metadata asynchronously in Python 3.
do the retries in rm_rf on every platform
use a higher cutoff for package name misspellings
allow changing default channels in “system” .condarc

3.6.1 (2014-08-13)

add retries to download in fetch module
improved error messages for missing packages
more robust rm_rf on Windows
print multiline help for subcommands correctly

3.6.0 (2014-08-11)

correctly check if a package can be hard-linked if it isn’t extracted yet
change how the package plan is printed to better show what is new, updated, and downgraded
use suggest_normalized_version in the resolve module. Now versions like 1.0alpha that are not directly recognized by verlib’s NormalizedVersion are supported better
conda run command, to run apps and commands from packages
more complete --json API. Every conda command should fully support --json output now.
show the conda_build and requests versions in conda info
include packages from setup.py develop in conda list (with use_pip)
raise a warning instead of dying when the history file is invalid
use urllib.quote on the proxy password
make conda search --outdated --canonical work
pin the Python version during conda init
fix some metadata that is written for Python during conda init
allow comments in a pinned file
allow installing and updating menuinst on Windows
allow conda create with both --file and listed packages
better handling of some nonexistent packages
fix command line flags in conda package
fix a bug in the ftp adapter

3.5.5 (2014-06-10)

remove another instance pycosat version detection, which fails on Windows, see issue #761

3.5.4 (2014-06-10)

remove pycosat version detection, which fails on Windows, see issue #761

3.5.3 (2014-06-09)

fix conda update to correctly not install packages that are already up-to-date
always fail with connection error in download
the package resolution is now much faster and uses less memory
add ssl_verify option in condarc to allow ignoring SSL certificate verification, see issue #737

3.5.2 (2014-05-27)

fix bug in activate.bat and deactivate.bat on Windows

3.5.1 (2014-05-26)

fix proxy support - conda now prompts for proxy username and password again
fix activate.bat on Windows with spaces in the path
update optional psutil dependency was updated to psutil 2.0 or higher

3.5.0 (2014-05-15)

replace use of urllib2 with requests. requests is now a hard dependency of conda.
add ability to only allow system-wise specified channels
hide binstar from output of conda info

3.4.3 (2014-05-05)

allow prefix replacement in binary files, see issue #710
check if creating hard link is possible and otherwise copy, during install
allow circular dependencies

3.4.2 (2014-04-21)

conda clean --lock: skip directories that don’t exist, fixes #648
fixed empty history file causing crash, issue #644
remove timezone information from history file, fixes issue #651
fix PackagesNotFound error for missing recursive dependencies
change the default for adding cache from the local package cache - known is now the default and the option to use index metadata from the local package cache is --unknown
add --alt-hint as a method to get an alternate form of a hint for unsatisfiable packages
add conda package --ls-files to list files in a package
add ability to pin specs in an environment. To pin a spec, add a file called pinned to the environment’s conda-meta directory with the specs to pin. Pinned specs are always kept installed, unless the --no-pin flag is used.
fix keyboard interrupting of external commands. Now keyboard interrupting conda build correctly removes the lock file
add no_link ability to conda, see issue #678

3.4.1 (2014-04-07)

always use a pkgs cache directory associated with an envs directory, even when using -p option with an arbitrary a prefix which is not inside an envs dir
add setting of PYTHONHOME to conda info --system
skip packages with bad metadata

3.4.0 (2014-04-02)

added revision history to each environment:
- conda list --revisions
- conda install --revision
- log is stored in conda-meta/history
allow parsing pip-style requirement files with --file option and in command line arguments, e.g. conda install ‘numpy>=1.7’, issue #624
fix error message for --file option when file does not exist
allow DEFAULTS in CONDA_ENVS_PATH, which expands to the defaults settings, including the condarc file
don’t install a package with a feature (like mkl) unless it is specifically requested (i.e., that feature is already enabled in that environment)
add ability to show channel URLs when displaying what is going to be downloaded by setting “show_channel_urls: True” in condarc
fix the --quiet option
skip packages that have dependencies that can’t be found

3.3.2 (2014-03-24)

fix the --file option
check install arguments before fetching metadata
fix a printing glitch with the progress bars
give a better error message for conda clean with no arguments
don’t include unknown packages when searching another platform

3.3.1 (2014-03-19)

Fix setting of PS1 in activate.
Add conda update --all.
Allow setting CONDARC=’ ’ to use no condarc.
Add conda clean --packages.
Don’t include bin/conda, bin/activate, or bin/deactivate in conda package.

3.3.0 (2014-03-18)

allow new package specification, i.e. ==, >=, >, <=, <, != separated by ‘,’ for example: >=2.3,<3.0
add ability to disable self update of conda, by setting “self_update: False” in .condarc
Try installing packages using the old way of just installing the maximum versions of things first. This provides a major speedup of solving the package specifications in the cases where this scheme works.
Don’t include python=3.3 in the specs automatically for the Python 3 version of conda. This allows you to do “conda create -n env package” for a package that only has a Python 2 version without specifying “python=2”. This change has no effect in Python 2.
Automatically put symlinks to conda, activate, and deactivate in each environment on Unix.
On Unix, activate and deactivate now remove the root environment from the PATH. This should prevent “bleed through” issues with commands not installed in the activated environment but that are installed in the root environment. If you have “setup.py develop” installed conda on Unix, you should run this command again, as the activate and deactivate scripts have changed.
Begin work to support Python 3.4.
Fix a bug in version comparison
Fix usage of sys.stdout and sys.stderr in environments like pythonw on Windows where they are nonstandard file descriptors.

3.2.1 (2014-03-12)

fix installing packages with irrational versions
fix installation in the api
use a logging handler to print the dots

3.2.0 (2014-03-11)

print dots to the screen for progress
move logic functions from resolve to logic module

3.2.0a1 (2014-03-07)

conda now uses pseudo-boolean constraints in the SAT solver. This allows it to search for all versions at once, rather than only the latest (issue #491).
Conda contains a brand new logic submodule for converting pseudo-boolean constraints into SAT clauses.

3.1.1 (2014-03-07)

check if directory exists, fixed issue #591

3.1.0 (2014-03-07)

local packages in cache are now added to the index, this may be disabled by using the --known option, which only makes conda use index metadata from the known remote channels
add --use-index-cache option to enable using cache of channel index files
fix ownership of files when installing as root on Linux
conda search: add ‘.’ symbol for extracted (cached) packages

3.0.6 (2014-02-20)

fix ‘conda update’ taking build number into account

3.0.5 (2014-02-17)

allow packages from create_default_packages to be overridden from the command line
fixed typo install.py, issue #566
try to prevent accidentally installing into a non-root conda environment

3.0.4 (2014-02-14)

conda update: don’t try to update packages that are already up-to-date

3.0.3 (2014-02-06)

improve the speed of clean --lock
some fixes to conda config
more tests added
choose the first solution rather than the last when there are more than one, since this is more likely to be the one you want.

3.0.2 (2014-02-03)

fix detection of prefix being writable

3.0.1 (2014-01-31)

bug: not having track_features in condarc now uses default again
improved test suite
remove numpy version being treated special in plan module
if the post-link.(bat|sh) fails, don’t treat it as though it installed, i.e. it is not added to conda-meta
fix activate if CONDA_DEFAULT_ENV is invalid
fix conda config --get to work with list keys again
print the total download size
fix a bug that was preventing conda from working in Python 3
add ability to run pre-link script, issue #548

3.0.0 (2014-01-24)

removed build, convert, index, and skeleton commands, which are now part of the conda-build project: https://github.com/conda/conda-build
limited pip integration to conda list, that means conda install no longer calls pip install # !!!
add ability to call sub-commands named ‘conda-x’
The -c flag to conda search is now shorthand for --channel, not –canonical (this is to be consistent with other conda commands)
allow changing location of .condarc file using the CONDARC environment variable
conda search now shows the channel that the package comes from
conda search has a new --platform flag for searching for packages in other platforms.
remove condarc warnings: issue #526#issuecomment-33195012

2.3.1 (2014-01-17)

add ability create info/no_softlink
add conda convert command to convert non-platform-dependent packages from one platform to another (experimental)
unify create, install, and update code. This adds many features to create and update that were previously only available to install. A backwards incompatible change is that conda create -f now means --force, not –file.

2.3.0 (2014-01-16)

automatically prepend http://conda.binstar.org/ (or the value of channel_alias in the .condarc file) to channels whenever the channel is not a URL or the word 'defaults or ‘system’
recipes made with the skeleton pypi command will use setuptools instead of distribute
re-work the setuptools dependency and entry_point logic so that non console_script entry_points for packages with a dependency on setuptools will get correct build script with conda skeleton pypi
add -m, --mkdir option to conda install
add ability to disable soft-linking

2.2.8 (2014-01-06)

add check for chrpath (on Linux) before build is started, see issue #469
conda build: fixed ELF headers not being recognized on Python 3
fixed issues: #467, #476

2.2.7 (2014-01-02)

fixed bug in conda build related to lchmod not being available on all platforms

2.2.6 (2013-12-31)

fix test section for automatic recipe creation from pypi using --build-recipe
minor Py3k fixes for conda build on Linux
copy symlinks as symlinks, issue #437
fix explicit install (e.g. from output of conda list -e) in root env
add pyyaml to the list of packages which can not be removed from root environment
fixed minor issues: #365, #453

2.2.5 (2013-12-17)

conda build: move broken packages to conda-bld/broken
conda config: automatically add the ‘defaults’ channel
conda build: improve error handling for invalid recipe directory
add ability to set build string, issue #425
fix LD_RUN_PATH not being set on Linux under Python 3, see issue #427, thanks peter1000

2.2.4 (2013-12-10)

add support for execution with the -m switch (issue #398), i.e. you can execute conda also as: python -m conda
add a deactivate script for windows
conda build adds .pth-file when it encounters an egg (TODO)
add ability to preserve egg directory when building using build/preserve_egg_dir: True
allow track_features in ~/.condarc
Allow arbitrary source, issue #405
fixed minor issues: #393, #402, #409, #413

2.2.3 (2013-12-03)

add “foreign mode”, i.e. disallow install of certain packages when using a “foreign” Python, such as the system Python
remove activate/deactivate from source tarball created by sdist.sh, in order to not overwrite activate script from virtualenvwrapper

2.2.2 (2013-11-27)

remove ARCH environment variable for being able to change architecture
add PKG_NAME, PKG_VERSION to environment when running build.sh, .-post-link.sh and .-pre-unlink.sh

2.2.1 (2013-11-15)

minor fixes related to make conda pip installable
generated conda meta-data missing ‘files’ key, fixed issue #357

2.2.0 (2013-11-14)

add conda init command, to allow installing conda via pip
fix prefix being replaced by placeholder after conda build on Unix
add ‘use_pip’ to condarc configuration file
fixed activate on Windows to set CONDA_DEFAULT_ENV
allow setting “always_yes: True” in condarc file, which implies always using the --yes option whenever asked to proceed

2.1.0 (2013-11-07)

fix rm_egg_dirs so that the .egg_info file can be a zip file
improve integration with pip
- conda list now shows pip installed packages
- conda install will try to install via “pip install” if no conda package is available (unless --no-pip is provided)
- conda build has a new --build-recipe option which will create a recipe (stored in /conda-recipes) from pypi then build a conda package (and install it)
- pip list and pip install only happen if pip is installed
enhance the locking mechanism so that conda can call itself in the same process.

2.0.4 (2013-11-04)

ensure lowercase name when generating package info, fixed issue #329
on Windows, handle the .nonadmin files

2.0.3 (2013-10-28)

update bundle format
fix bug when displaying packages to be downloaded (thanks Crystal)

2.0.2 (2013-10-27)

add --index-cache option to clean command, see issue #321
use RPATH (instead of RUNPATH) when building packages on Linux

2.0.1 (2013-10-23)

add --no-prompt option to conda skeleton pypi
add create_default_packages to condarc (and --no-default-packages option to create command)

2.0.0 (2013-10-01)

added user/root mode and ability to soft-link across filesystems
added create --clone option for copying local environments
fixed behavior when installing into an environment which does not exist yet, i.e. an error occurs
fixed install --no-deps option
added --export option to list command
allow building of packages in “user mode”
regular environment locations now used for build and test
add ability to disallow specification names
add ability to read help messages from a file when install location is RO
restore backwards compatibility of share/clone for conda-api
add new conda bundle command and format
pass ARCH environment variable to build scripts
added progress bar to source download for conda build, issue #230
added ability to use url instead of local file to conda install --file and conda create --file options

1.9.1 (2013-09-06)

fix bug in new caching of repodata index

1.9.0 (2013-09-05)

add caching of repodata index
add activate command on Windows
add conda package --which option, closes issue 163
add ability to install file which contains multiple packages, issue 256
move conda share functionality to conda package --share
update documentation
improve error messages when external dependencies are unavailable
add implementation for issue 194: post-link or pre-unlink may append to a special file ${PREFIX}/.messages.txt for messages, which is display to the user’s console after conda completes all actions
add conda search --outdated option, which lists only installed packages for which newer versions are available
fixed numerous Py3k issues, in particular with the build command

1.8.2 (2013-08-16)

add conda build --check option
add conda clean --lock option
fixed error in recipe causing conda traceback, issue 158
fixes conda build error in Python 3, issue 238
improve error message when test command fails, as well as issue 229
disable Python (and other packages which are used by conda itself) to be updated in root environment on Windows
simplified locking, in particular locking should never crash conda when files cannot be created due to permission problems

1.8.1 (2013-08-07)

fixed conda update for no arguments, issue 237
fix setting prefix before calling should_do_win_subprocess() part of issue 235
add basic subversion support when building
add --output option to conda build

1.8.0 (2013-07-31)

add Python 3 support (thanks almarklein)
add Mercurial support when building from source (thanks delicb)
allow Python (and other packages which are used by conda itself) to be updated in root environment on Windows
add conda config command
add conda clean command
removed the conda pip command
improve locking to be finer grained
made activate/deactivate work with zsh (thanks to mika-fischer)
allow conda build to take tarballs containing a recipe as arguments
add PKG_CONFIG_PATH to build environment variables
fix entry point scripts pointing to wrong python when building Python 3 packages
allow source/sha1 in meta.yaml, issue 196
more informative message when there are unsatisfiable package specifications
ability to set the proxy urls in condarc
conda build asks to upload to binstar. This can also be configured by changing binstar_upload in condarc.
basic tab completion if the argcomplete package is installed and eval “$(register-python-argcomplete conda)” is added to the bash profile.

1.7.2 (2013-07-02)

fixed conda update when packages include a post-link step which was caused by subprocess being lazily imported, fixed by 0d0b860
improve error message when ‘chrpath’ or ‘patch’ is not installed and needed by build framework
fixed sharing/cloning being broken (issue 179)
add the string LOCKERROR to the conda lock error message

1.7.1 (2013-06-21)

fix “executable” not being found on Windows when ending with .bat when launching application
give a better error message from when a repository does not exist

1.7.0 (2013-06-20)

allow ${PREFIX} in app_entry
add binstar upload information after conda build finishes

1.7.0a2 (2013-06-20)

add global conda lock file for only allowing one instance of conda to run at the same time
add conda skeleton command to create recipes from PyPI
add ability to run post-link and pre-unlink script

1.7.0a1 (2013-06-13)

add ability to build conda packages from “recipes”, using the conda build command, for some examples, see: https://github.com/ContinuumIO/conda-recipes
fixed bug in conda install --force
conda update command no longer uses anaconda as default package name
add proxy support
added application API to conda.api module
add -c/–channel and --override-channels flags (issue 121).
add default and system meta-channels, for use in .condarc and with -c (issue 122).
fixed ability to install ipython=0.13.0 (issue 130)

1.6.0 (2013-06-05)

update package command to reflect changes in repodata
fixed refactoring bugs in share/clone
warn when anaconda processes are running on install in Windows (should fix most permissions errors on Windows)

1.6.0rc2 (2013-05-31)

conda with no arguments now prints help text (issue 111)
don’t allow removing conda from root environment
conda update python does no longer update to Python 3, also ensure that conda itself is always installed into the root environment (issue 110)

1.6.0rc1 (2013-05-30)

major internal refactoring
use new “depends” key in repodata
uses pycosat to solve constraints more efficiently
add hard-linking on Windows
fixed linking across filesystems (issue 103)
add conda remove --features option
added more tests, in particular for new dependency resolver
add internal DSL to perform install actions
add package size to download preview
add conda install --force and --no-deps options
fixed conda help command
add conda remove --all option for removing entire environment
fixed source activate on systems where sourcing a gives “bash” as $0
add information about installed versions to conda search command
removed known “locations”
add output about installed packages when update and install do nothing
changed default when prompted for y/n in CLI to yes

1.5.2 (2013-04-29)

fixed issue 59: bad error message when pkgs dir is not writable

1.5.1 (2013-04-19)

fixed issue 71 and (73 duplicate): not being able to install packages starting with conda (such as ‘conda-api’)
fixed issue 69 (not being able to update Python / NumPy)
fixed issue 76 (cannot install mkl on OSX)

1.5.0 (2013-03-22)

add conda share and clone commands
add (hidden) --output-json option to clone, share and info commands to support the conda-api package
add repo sub-directory type ‘linux-armv6l’

1.4.6 (2013-03-12)

fixed channel selection (issue #56)

1.4.5 (2013-03-11)

fix issue #53 with install for meta packages
add -q/–quiet option to update command

1.4.4 (2013-03-09)

use numpy 1.7 as default on all platforms

1.4.3 (2013-03-09)

fixed bug in conda.builder.share.clone_bundle()

1.4.2 (2013-03-08)

feature selection fix for update
Windows: don’t allow linking or unlinking python from the root environment because the file lock, see issue #42

1.4.1 (2013-03-07)

fix some feature selection bugs
never exit in activate and deactivate
improve help and error messages

1.4.0 (2013-03-05)

fixed conda pip NAME==VERSION
added conda info --license option
add source activate and deactivate commands
rename the old activate and deactivate to link and unlink
add ability for environments to track “features”
add ability to distinguish conda build packages from Anaconda packages by adding a “file_hash” meta-data field in info/index.json
add conda.builder.share module

1.3.5 (2013-02-05)

fixed detecting untracked files on Windows
removed backwards compatibility to conda 1.0 version

1.3.4 (2013-01-28)

fixed conda installing itself into environments (issue #10)
fixed non-existing channels being silently ignored (issue #12)
fixed trailing slash in ~/.condarc file cause crash (issue #13)
fixed conda list not working when ~/.condarc is missing (issue #14)
fixed conda install not working for Python 2.6 environment (issue #17)
added simple first cut implementation of remove command (issue #11)
pip, build commands: only package up new untracked files
allow a system-wide <sys.prefix>/.condarc (~/.condarc takes precedence)
only add pro channel is no condarc file exists (and license is valid)

1.3.3 (2013-01-23)

fix conda create not filtering channels correctly
remove (hidden) --test and --testgui options

1.3.2 (2013-01-23)

fix deactivation of packages with same build number note that conda upgrade did not suffer from this problem, as was using separate logic

1.3.1 (2013-01-22)

fix bug in conda update not installing new dependencies

1.3.0 (2013-01-22)

added conda package command
added conda index command
added -c, --canonical option to list and search commands
fixed conda --version on Windows
add this changelog

1.2.1 (2012-11-21)

remove ambiguity from conda update command

1.2.0 (2012-11-20)

“conda upgrade” now updates from AnacondaCE to Anaconda (removed upgrade2pro
add versioneer

1.1.0 (2012-11-13)

Many new features implemented by Bryan

1.0.0 (2012-09-06)

initial release