November Release Blogpost

blog/2024-10-02-september-releases.mdx

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 Altogether, we had 4 new contributors this release cycle; thank you to all of our open source community members for helping making these improvements possible.
 
-- @anki-code made their first contribution in [conda#14047](https://github.com/conda/conda/pull/14047)
-- @SylvainCorlay made their first contribution in [conda#14226](https://github.com/conda/conda/pull/14226)
-- @jjhelmus made their first contribution in [conda-libmamba-solver#528](https://github.com/conda/conda-libmamba-solver/pull/528)
-- @justmarkham made their first contribution in [conda-libmamba-solver#510](https://github.com/conda/conda-libmamba-solver/pull/510)
+- [@anki-code](https://github.com/anki-code) made their first contribution in [conda#14047](https://github.com/conda/conda/pull/14047)
+- [@SylvainCorlay](https://github.com/SylvainCorlay) made their first contribution in [conda#14226](https://github.com/conda/conda/pull/14226)
+- [@jjhelmus](https://github.com/jjhelmus) made their first contribution in [conda-libmamba-solver#528](https://github.com/conda/conda-libmamba-solver/pull/528)
+- [@justmarkham](https://github.com/justmarkham) made their first contribution in [conda-libmamba-solver#510](https://github.com/conda/conda-libmamba-solver/pull/510)

blog/2024-12-05-november-releases.md

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+---
+title: "November 2024 Releases"
+slug: "2024-12-05-november-releases"
+authors: [kenodegard]
+tags: [announcement, conda, conda-build, conda-libmamba-solver]
+description: |
+  conda 24.11.0, conda-build 24.11.2, and conda-libmamba-solver 24.11.1 have been released! 🎉
+image: img/blog/2024-12-05-november-releases/banner.png
+---
+
+The November 2024 releases included updates to conda, conda-build, and conda-libmamba-solver! 🎉 All of these have been released to both `main` and `conda-forge` channels.
+
+<!-- truncate -->
+
+## Changes in conda [24.11.0](https://github.com/conda/conda/releases/tag/24.11.0)
+
+To update `conda` to the latest version, run:
+
+```bash
+conda install -n base conda=24.11.0
+```
+
+### ✨ What's New? ✨
+
+- Add a new plugin hook for reporter backends for customizing conda's output.
+- Add support for CEP-17 that allows specifying the path to the site-packages directory of the the Python package via the `repodata.json`.
+- Adds progress bar support for reporter backends plugin hook.
+- Adds support for defining spinners for the reporter backends plugin hook.
+- Adds support for confirmation functions for reporter backends plugin hook.
+- Add new plugin hooks (`conda_session_headers` and `conda_request_headers`) to add headers to outgoing HTTP requests.
+
+### 🔧 What Got Fixed? 🔧
+
+- Do not retry solves twice in failed `conda env` runs.
+- Remove CreateNonAdminAction to prevent conda remove from deleting `.nonadmin` files.
+- Do not map Python distribution names to conda names in `PrefixData(pip_interop_enabled=True)`.
+- Fix output writing for `conda export --json --file`.
+- Update `deprecated.action()` function to account for positional arguments that have no value specified.
+- Fix continuous integration upload of coverage files.
+
+### 🌅 What Got Deprecated or Got Marked for Future [Deprecation](https://github.com/conda-incubator/ceps/blob/main/cep-9.md)? 🌅
+
+- Remove `__conda_reactivate` shell function in favor of `__conda_activate reactivate`.
+- Mark `conda.misc.rel_path` as pending deprecation.
+- Require Python 3.9 or greater.
+
+## Changes in conda-build [24.11.0](https://github.com/conda/conda-build/releases/tag/24.11.0)/[24.11.1](https://github.com/conda/conda-build/releases/tag/24.11.1)/[24.11.2](https://github.com/conda/conda-build/releases/tag/24.11.2)
+
+To update `conda-build` to the latest version, run:
+
+```bash
+conda install -n base conda-build=24.11.2
+```
+
+### ✨ What's New? ✨
+
+- Introduce `--package-format` as a command line argument.
+  - This takes precedence over default value and `condarc`.
+  - Normalization occurs so `1`, `"1"`, `tar.bz2`,`.tar.bz2`, `2`, `"2"`, `conda`, `.conda` are all recognized and mapped appropriately.
+  - Other options are rejected.
+- Add  support for [CEP-17](https://github.com/conda/ceps/blob/main/cep-0017.md) that allows specifying the location of the site-packages directory with the `python_site_packages_path` build option for any packages named `python`.
+
+### 🔧 What Got Fixed? 🔧
+
+- Fix regex for Jinja2 `set` / `for` statements to be more specific.
+- Fix `ruamel.yaml` usage to use supported APIs.
+- Fix a bug where variant variables were not defined for the first parsing pass of a recipe.
+- Fix a bug where variants were incorrectly found as being used when they matched a leading substring of another variant.
+- Fix a bug where variants were not found when variables were used in `pin_*` statements.
+- (24.11.1) Fix `TypeError` when no CLI arguments are passed.
+- (24.11.2) Fix a bug where `.copy()` was used on a string instead of `copy()` when processing variants.
+
+### 🌅 What Got Deprecated or Got Marked for Future [Deprecation](https://github.com/conda-incubator/ceps/blob/main/cep-9.md)? 🌅
+
+- Deprecate `conda_build.exceptions.UnableToParseMissingJinja2`.
+- Deprecate `conda_build.index.get_build_index(locking)`.
+- Deprecate `conda_build.index.get_build_index(timeout)`.
+- Require Python 3.9 or greater.
+- The default value for `--package-format` and `conda_pkg_format` will become `.conda` in 25.1.
+
+### 📄 What's New in Documentation? 📄
+
+- Better document `run_test.r`.
+- Fix bug in docs build by pinning `conda-sphinx-theme` version to 0.2.2.
+
+## Changes in conda-libmamba-solver [24.11.0rc](https://github.com/conda/conda-libmamba-solver/releases/tag/24.11.0rc)/[24.11.0](https://github.com/conda/conda-libmamba-solver/releases/tag/24.11.0)/[24.11.1](https://github.com/conda/conda-libmamba-solver/releases/tag/24.11.1)
+
+To update `conda-libmamba-solver` to the latest version, run:
+
+```bash
+conda install -n base conda-libmamba-solver=24.11.1
+```
+
+### ✨ What's New? ✨
+
+- Require `libmambapy` v2. This is a big refactor in `libmamba` internals, which also allowed us to remove a lot of code in `conda-libmamba-solver`.
+
+### 🔧 What Got Fixed? 🔧
+
+- Load SOLV repodata cache in offline mode too.
+- (24.11.1) Ensure `PackageRecord` URLs are percent-decoded before passing them back to `conda`.
+
+### 🌅 What Got Deprecated or Got Marked for Future Deprecation
+
+- `CONDA_LIBMAMBA_SOLVER_NO_CHANNELS_FROM_INSTALLED` has no effect anymore. Channels coming from installed packages are no longer added to the channel list.
+- Removed `conda_libmamba_solver.state.BaseIndexHelper`. The base class is now `conda_libmamba_solver.index.IndexHelper`.
+- Verbose logging in `libsolv` has a big overhead in `libmamba` v2, so we have disabled it by default (even if the user adds `-vvv` flags to the CLI). To opt-in, please set `CONDA_LIBMAMBA_SOLVER_DEBUG_LIBSOLV` to a truthy value.
+- Python 3.8 is no longer supported. The minimum version is now 3.9.
+
+## We ❤️ Our Community
+
+Altogether, we had 3 new contributors this release cycle; thank you to all of our open source community members for helping making these improvements possible.
+
+- [@muffato](https://github.com/muffato) made their first contribution in [conda#14342](https://github.com/conda/conda/pull/14342)
+- [@nilskch](https://github.com/nilskch) made their first contribution in [conda#14214](https://github.com/conda/conda/pull/14214)
+- [@corneliusroemer](https://github.com/corneliusroemer) made their first contribution in [conda-build#5417](https://github.com/conda/conda-build/pull/5417)

blog/news.json

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+  {
+    "title": "November 2024 Releases",
+    "slug": "2024-12-05-november-releases",
+    "authors": [
+      "kenodegard"
+    ],
+    "tags": [
+      "announcement",
+      "conda",
+      "conda-build",
+      "conda-libmamba-solver"
+    ],
+    "description": "conda 24.11.0, conda-build 24.11.2, and conda-libmamba-solver 24.11.1 have been released! \ud83c\udf89\n",
+    "image": "img/blog/2024-12-05-november-releases/banner.png",
+    "date": "2024-12-05T00:00:00"
+  },
   {
     "title": "Navigating Change in Conda-Build Recipe Formats: Balancing Legacy and Innovation",
     "slug": "2024-11-15-v0-format-modifications",
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     "description": "Rattler, a set of Rust libraries for managing conda environments, is moving to the conda organization.",
     "image": "img/blog/2024-10-rattler/banner.png",
     "date": "2024-10-01T00:00:00"
-  },
-  {
-    "title": "New video on conda-forge origins",
-    "slug": "2024-09-12-chatting-with-the-conda-community-1",
-    "authors": [
-      "wolfv"
-    ],
-    "tags": [
-      "announcement",
-      "chatting-with-the-conda-community"
-    ],
-    "description": "The first \"chatting with the conda community\" is talking about the origins of conda-forge - with Filipe Fernandes.",
-    "image": "img/blog/2024-09-chatting-with-conda-community/banner.png",
-    "date": "2024-09-12T00:00:00"
   }
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