Enhancements

• Adds a new plugin hook for reporter backends, which can be used to customize the way output is rendered in conda. (#13868)
• Add support for CEP-17 that allows specifying the path to the site-packages directory of the the Python package via the repodata.json. (#14053 via #14256)
• Adds progress bar support for reporter backends plugin hook. (#14083)
• Adds support for defining spinners for the reporter backends plugin hook. (#14206)
• Adds support for confirmation functions for reporter backends plugin hook. (#14244)
• Add new plugin hooks (conda_session_headers and conda_request_headers) to add headers to outgoing HTTP requests. (#14325, #14382)

Bug fixes

• Do not retry solves twice in failed conda env runs. (#13784)
• Remove CreateNonAdminAction to prevent conda remove from deleting .nonadmin files. (#14271)
• Do not map Python distribution names to conda names in PrefixData(pip_interop_enabled=True). (#14310 via #14317)
• Fix output writing for conda export --json --file. (#14316 via #14323)
• Update deprecated.action() function to account for positional arguments that have no value specified. (#14355 via
  #14359)
• Fix CI upload of coverage files for tests (#14375)

Deprecations

• Remove __conda_reactivate shell function in favor of __conda_activate reactivate. (#14277)
• Mark conda.misc.rel_path as pending deprecation. (#14338)
• Require Python 3.9 or greater. (#14201 via #14368)

Contributors

• @beeankha
• @conda-bot
• @dholth
• @duncanmmacleod
• @jaimergp
• @jezdez
• @jjhelmus
• @kathatherine
• @kenodegard
• @zklaus
• @ForgottenProgramme
• @marcoesters
• @muffato made their first contribution in #14342
• @nilskch made their first contribution in #14214
• @travishathaway
• @dependabot[bot]
• @pre-commit-ci[bot]

Full Changelog: 24.9.2...24.11.0