3.12.1

Bug fixes

• Include construct.schema.json file as part of the source distribution. (#740)
• Fix return value when running constructor --dry-run mode. (#740)

Contributors

• @jaimergp
• @marcoesters

3.12.0

Enhancements

• Add support for mirrored_channels in construct.yaml. These mirrored channels are included in the resulting .condarc file if one is created. mamba only. (#1008)
• Add JSON Schema for construct.yml, defined with a Pydantic model (not used at runtime). (#943, #979)
• Add support for conda init --condabin in initialize_conda option. (#960 via #965)
• SH installers: Add -c flag to control whether to run conda initialization in batch mode. (#1004 via #965)
• Add compatibility for onedir variants of conda-standalone, which are pre-extracted and have smaller start overheads. (#993, #1007)

Bug fixes

• Ensure environment variables are properly unset in NSIS by passing the data type explicitly. (#1005)
• EXE installers: Enable inheriting permissions of all files inside the installation directory
  for AllUsers installations. (#828 via #991)

Deprecations

• Remove deprecated constructor.construct.generate_docs() function. Use scripts/make_docs.py instead. (#943)

Docs

• Remove inaccurate typing information from the construct.yml fields documentation. Full and accurate details are now available in the JSON Schema. (#943)
• Add new howto section explaining the differences between types of conda initialization. (#965)

Other

• Pin pydantic to v2.11.* in test environment for consistent schema output. (#971 via #972)

Contributors

• @IsabelParedes
• @jaimergp
• @marcoesters

New contributors

• @IsabelParedes made their first contribution in #1008

3.11.3

Bug fixes

• Unset CONDARC and MAMBARC to prevent pre-existing configuration files from influencing the installation. (#962)
• Avoid using eval to process user-provided installation prefixes in SH installers.

Other

• Apply ruff to the whole codebase. (#956)

Contributors

• @jaimergp
• @marcoesters

3.11.2

Bug fixes

• Fix version parsing when mamba v1 is used. (#936)
• Enforce POSIX newline characters in checksum files to allow shasum -c on Windows. (#938)
• Fix ownership of files created by conda init for PKG installers. (#939)
• Fix extra_files functionality on EXE installers. (#942)
• Set CONDA_QUIET=1 for EXE installers to avoid crashes due to NSIS log buffer overflows. (#944 via #950)
• Check conda-standalone version only if shortcuts are enabled. (#952)
• Catch OSError during --conda-exe compatibility checks too. (#952)

Other

• Add setuptools_scm to build recipe. (#951)

Contributors

• @jaimergp
• @jjerphan
• @marcoesters
• @NixM0nk3y

New contributors

• @NixM0nk3y made their first contribution in #942

3.11.1

Enhancements

• Add INSTALLER_UNATTENDED environment variable for pkg installers. (#915)
• Improve use of Jinja for templating logic. (#901 via #922)

Bug fixes

• Add support of mamba v2 shell initialization. (#914)

Docs

• Fix typo for the /RemoveConfigFiles CLI option in the Windows uninstaller. (#913)
• Update miniforge example to 24.11.2 (#924)

Contributors

• @jjerphan
• @marcoesters

New contributors

• @jjerphan made their first contribution in #914

3.11.0

Enhancements

• Use Jinja for templating logic. (#892)
• Implement feature to run uninstallation via conda-standalone (see conda/conda-standalone#112). (#897)
• Add new lockfile output in build_outputs. This generates a @EXPLICIT lockfile for the requested environment. (#898)
• When --debug is used, do not delete temporary workspaces to facilitate inspection. (#910)

Bug fixes

• Clarify warning about x86_64 installers in non-x86_64 machines. (#895 via #896)
• Correctly parse post-install pages for Windows when input is a string. (#904)
• channels_remap is now insensitive to http vs https, and trailing slashes. (#909)
• Add a regression test for packages including percent-encodable characters in their filenames. (#908 via #909)

Deprecations

• constructor.utils.preprocess and constructor.utils.fill_template are deprecated. (#892)

Other

• Do not run CI against Python 3.8. (#909)
• Run SH tests in -x mode if CONSTRUCTOR_DEBUG=1 is set. (#910)

Contributors

• @jaimergp
• @marcoesters

3.10.0

Enhancements

• Windows installers will now report progress to stdout if run in headless mode (/S). (#764, #812 via #847)
• Add capability to add extra post-install pages to PKG installers. (#852)
• Parallelize artifact downloads. (#855 via #857)
• Improve detection and handling of standalone executable type. (#864)
• Export INSTALLER_UNATTENDED environment variable so pre- and post-install scripts can detect if the installer is running in batch/silent mode or not. (#882 via #885)
• Do not run conda-based virtual specs tests for __glibc and __osx. These are already tested by the installation script in an earlier step. (#868 via #887)
• Allow __glibc and __osx overrides with CONDA_OVERRIDE_GLIBC and CONDA_OVERRIDE_OSX environment variables, respectively (.sh installers only). (#888)

Bug fixes

• Fix GLIBC detection method in some MUSL systems. (#850 via #856)
• Respect ssl_verify setting if defined in any condarc file. (#851 via #860)
• Ignore pre-existing condarc files to prevent these configuration files from interfering with the installation process. (#542 and #568 via #863)
• Address quoting issue that created unneeded files in installation directory. (#865 via #887)
• Perform disk space checks earlier and report errors in MB (.sh installers only). (#778 via 889)
• Always report NSIS output when an error occurs. (#798 via #890)
• Do not crash if --output-dir doesn't exist. Ensure it exists before creating installers. (#772 via #891)

Contributors

• @jaimergp
• @marcoesters

3.9.3

Bug fixes

• Fix a couple issues in the virtual_specs feature (set CONDA_PKGS_DIRS for micromamba, do not rely on $BATCH for PKG, update the Windows example). (#843)

3.9.2

Bug fixes

• Fix typo in pyproject.toml package data. (#839)

Contributors

• @marcoesters

3.9.1

Bug fixes

• Prevent error on Windows where the text-based images cannot be generated because the TrueType font cannot be loaded. (#837)

Contributors

• @jaimergp