Additional information on what installers don't have this brownout

Miniforge3/mambaforge_deprecation.bat

@@ -1,25 +1,25 @@
 if "%GITHUB_ACTIONS%"=="true" (
-    echo ::warning title=Mambaforge is now deprecated!::Future Miniforge releases will NOT build Mambaforge installers. We advise you switch to Miniforge at your earliest convenience. More details at https://conda-forge.org/news/2024/07/29/sunsetting-mambaforge/.
+    echo ::warning title=Mambaforge is now deprecated!::Future Miniforge releases will NOT build Mambaforge installers. We advise you switch to Miniforge at your earliest convenience. More details at https://conda-forge.org/news/2024/07/29/sunsetting-mambaforge/. If you require mambaforge, you may pin your installer to one found from https://github.com/conda-forge/miniforge/releases/tag/24.5.0-1
 )
 else (
-    msg "%sessionname%" Mambaforge is now deprecated! Future Miniforge releases will NOT build Mambaforge installers. We advise you switch to Miniforge at your earliest convenience. More details at https://conda-forge.org/news/2024/07/29/sunsetting-mambaforge/.
+    msg "%sessionname%" Mambaforge is now deprecated! Future Miniforge releases will NOT build Mambaforge installers. We advise you switch to Miniforge at your earliest convenience. More details at https://conda-forge.org/news/2024/07/29/sunsetting-mambaforge/. If you require mambaforge, you may pin your installer to one found from https://github.com/conda-forge/miniforge/releases/tag/24.5.0-1
 )
 
-for /f "delims=" %%# in ('powershell get-date -format "{yyyy-MM-dd}"') do @set _date=%%#
-if "%_date%"=="2024-10-01" exit 1
-if "%_date%"=="2024-10-15" exit 1
-if "%_date%"=="2024-11-01" exit 1
-if "%_date%"=="2024-11-10" exit 1
-if "%_date%"=="2024-11-20" exit 1
-if "%_date%"=="2024-11-30" exit 1
-if "%_date%"=="2024-12-05" exit 1
-if "%_date%"=="2024-12-10" exit 1
-if "%_date%"=="2024-12-15" exit 1
-if "%_date%"=="2024-12-20" exit 1
-if "%_date%"=="2024-12-25" exit 1
-if "%_date%"=="2024-12-30" exit 1
-if "%_date%"=="2024-12-31" exit 1
-if "%_date:~0,4%"=="2025"  exit 1
-
-echo Sleeping for 30s...
-powershell -nop -c "& {sleep 30}"
+:REM for /f "delims=" %%# in ('powershell get-date -format "{yyyy-MM-dd}"') do @set _date=%%#
+:REM if "%_date%"=="2024-10-01" exit 1
+:REM if "%_date%"=="2024-10-15" exit 1
+:REM if "%_date%"=="2024-11-01" exit 1
+:REM if "%_date%"=="2024-11-10" exit 1
+:REM if "%_date%"=="2024-11-20" exit 1
+:REM if "%_date%"=="2024-11-30" exit 1
+:REM if "%_date%"=="2024-12-05" exit 1
+:REM if "%_date%"=="2024-12-10" exit 1
+:REM if "%_date%"=="2024-12-15" exit 1
+:REM if "%_date%"=="2024-12-20" exit 1
+:REM if "%_date%"=="2024-12-25" exit 1
+:REM if "%_date%"=="2024-12-30" exit 1
+:REM if "%_date%"=="2024-12-31" exit 1
+:REM if "%_date:~0,4%"=="2025"  exit 1
+:REM
+:REM echo Sleeping for 30s...
+:REM powershell -nop -c "& {sleep 30}"

Miniforge3/mambaforge_deprecation.sh

@@ -7,15 +7,21 @@ else
     echo "Future Miniforge releases will NOT build Mambaforge installers."
     echo "We advise you switch to Miniforge at your earliest convenience."
     echo "More details at https://conda-forge.org/news/2024/07/29/sunsetting-mambaforge/."
+    echo "If you are unable to switch to Miniforge, you may pin your installer version to one found in "
+    echo "https://github.com/conda-forge/miniforge/releases/tag/24.5.0-1"
+    echo "or if you lack the system requirements (Linux glibc >= 2.17, or macOS + x86-64bit >= 10.13)"
+    echo "you may pin your installer to one older version found in "
+    echo "https://github.com/conda-forge/miniforge/releases/tag/24.3.0-0"
+
 fi
 
-case $(date +%F) in 
-    # Brownouts
-    2024-10-01|2024-10-15|2024-11-01|2024-11-10|2024-11-20|2024-11-30|2024-12-05|2024-12-10|2024-12-15|2024-12-20|2024-12-25|2024-12-30|2024-12-31|2025-*)
-        exit 1
-    ;;
-    *)
-        echo "Sleeping for 30s..."
-        sleep 30
-    ;;
-esac
+# case $(date +%F) in
+#     # Brownouts
+#     2024-10-01|2024-10-15|2024-11-01|2024-11-10|2024-11-20|2024-11-30|2024-12-05|2024-12-10|2024-12-15|2024-12-20|2024-12-25|2024-12-30|2024-12-31|2025-*)
+#         exit 1
+#     ;;
+#     *)
+#         echo "Sleeping for 30s..."
+#         sleep 30
+#     ;;
+# esac