24.1.0

Enhancements

• Prioritize explicitly requested specs with stricter constraints over implicit ones or name-only specs (e.g. a CLI-specified name=version=build will be sent to the solver before CLI-specified name=version and name). This happens to fix #391. (#381)
• Load pkgs_dirs records when called in offline mode. (#396 via #423)

Bug fixes

• Fix a regression introduced in #378, where certain solves would hard crash due to the given specs input order. (#391 via #381)
• Properly propagate customized local channels (conda-build workspaces). Requires libmamba 1.5.6 or above. (#398 via #401)
• Do not raise an error if an unsupported MatchSpec field can be safely dropped instead. Currently ignoring url, md5 and sha256. (#418 via #421, #427 via #429).
• Do not crash if a stateless repodata cache is accessed with --offline or --use-index-cache. (#396 via #423).

Other

• Remove old SolverOutputState.specs preparation logic from state.py, which was no longer in use since 23.9.0. Instead, enumerate all known specs in a certain order (see Enhancements for details). This list is then consumed by Solver._specs_to_tasks() as usual. (#381)

Contributors

• @isuruf made their first contribution in #401
• @jaimergp