New Release: Anaconda Distribution 2024.10

We are excited to announce the 2024.10 release of Anaconda Distribution, Anaconda’s data science distribution installer, which includes:

• Python – the most widely used programming language for data science and machine learning
• conda – the open-source, cross-platform package and environment manager
• Anaconda Navigator – our desktop application, built on conda, that enables you to launch notebooks and development applications from your managed environments
• And over 300 additional, automatically-installed packages that have been tested together to work “out of the box”

Anaconda Distribution is free to download, easy to install, and comes with free community support. The installer is pre-configured to access Anaconda’s public package repositories that include over 33,000 open-source data science and machine learning packages across seven different platforms.

Download Anaconda Distribution 2024.10 today. The full release notes can be found here. The Anaconda Distribution installer is subject to our TOS, which you can learn more about here.

Python 3.12.7

Anaconda Distribution 2024.10 ships with Python 3.12.7.

Package Updates

Python 3.12.7 is included in the base environment, and key package updates include:

• Dask 2024.8.2
• Jupyterlab 4.2.5
• Matplotlib 3.9.2
• Numba 0.60.0
• Numpy 1.26.4

• Pandas 2.2.2
• Scikit-Image 0.24.0
• Scikit-Learn 1.5.1
• SciPy 1.13.1
• Spyder 5.5.1

See the complete package lists, and explore our Anaconda Distribution 2024.10 metapackages, with builds for Python 3.8, 3.9, 3.10, 3.11, and 3.12. (Please note: Python 3.8 reaches “end of life” this month.)

Conda 24.9.2

Anaconda Distribution 2024.10 ships with conda 24.9.2, which includes several user-facing enhancements and bug fixes since Anaconda Distribution 2024.06 was released. You can read the full release notes here. Highlights include:

• The conda env remove command is now an alias to conda remove --all. To be clear, you can still run conda env remove, but it will actually be executing conda remove --all “under the hood”. (#13977)
• A new denylist_channels configuration and CONDA_DENYLIST_CHANNELS environment variable can be set to explicitly deny conda from using specific channels globally. These complement the existing allowlist_channels configuration option. (#14176 via #14196)

Anaconda Navigator 2.6.3

Anaconda Distribution 2024.10 includes Anaconda Navigator version 2.6.3. In this update, we’ve included a handful of new features to improve your user experience, including:

• Anaconda Toolbox is now installed by default in the base environment in Navigator.
• The new AI Navigator tile on the Home page now installs Anaconda AI Navigator automatically on Windows and macOS.
• Navigator now supports SSO logins for Package Security Manager (On-prem) through Navigator’s Anaconda Server repository connection.

For the complete list of updates, please see the Anaconda Navigator release notes.

Windows bug fix and enhancements

Bug fix

Previously, if users had multiple installations of Anaconda Distribution or Miniconda on the same machine, all of the shortcuts in the Start Menu would get overwritten with those from the latest installation. Starting in this release, a new installation will result in the creation of a distinct Start Menu shortcut folder named “Anaconda” followed by the installation directory name in parentheses (see below screenshot). This prevents unintended overwriting of shortcuts and helps distinguish between multiple installations of Anaconda Distribution or Miniconda on the same machine.

Enhancements

We have new icons for Anaconda Prompt and Anaconda PowerShell Prompt (shown above in the Start Menu and below in Navigator).

Anaconda Prompt and Anaconda PowerShell Prompt have been added to the Windows Terminal profile list and can be launched directly from the tab dropdown menu. Windows Terminal can be downloaded from the Microsoft Store. Please note: Windows Terminal is distinct from the Command Prompt application, and it requires Windows 10 version 19041.0 or higher.

Stay Current

Download Anaconda Distribution 2024.10 today. We thank you for continuing to be a part of the Anaconda community. Please keep an eye on this blog to stay current on releases, including the next release of Anaconda Distribution in February.