conda-forge now supports Python 3.13 release candidates on conda. You can create a new environment with Python 3.13 by running the command:
conda create -n py313 python=3.13 -c conda-forge/label/python_rc -c conda-forge
On March 29th, 2024, at 18:07 UTC, the core team learnt about the recently disclosed xz backdoor, now labeled as CVE-2024-3094.
To the best of our knowledge, conda-forge's artifacts for xz are not affected.
In June 2023, software engineers from Anaconda have reported a security issue in the uninstallers that are included in the Windows versions of the miniforge and mambaforge installers, one of the main ways to bootstrap conda-forge based conda and mamba distributions.
In early January 2023, CircleCI informed us that they had a large
security breach
where a third party had gained access to all the environment secrets
stored in the service. For conda-forge, these secrets are the API
token used to upload built packages to our staging area on
anaconda.org and the unique token we generate for each feedstock. The
feedstock tokens are used as part of our artifact staging process to
ensure that only the maintainers of a given feedstock can upload
packages built by that feedstock. Later in January, we were informed by
CircleCI that their security breach started on December 19, 2022, with
the bulk of the secrets being exfiltrated in plain text from their
servers a few days later. A malicious third-party with access to these
secrets could potentially upload compromised versions of any package on
conda-forge in a so-called "supply chain" attack.
This blog is about my work during my Outreachy internship with conda-forge. Before that a little about me - I am Surbhi, an Outreachy intern with conda-forge for the May-August 2022 cohort and I worked on documenting the conda-forge ecosystem.
Recently we've been able to add GPU-enabled TensorFlow builds to conda-forge! This was quite a journey, with multiple contributors trying different ways to convince the Bazel-based build system of TensorFlow to build CUDA-enabled packages. But we managed, and the pull request got merged.
On September 9, 2021 one of our core devs discovered that artifacts building on Travis CI were being uploaded to our conda channel from PRs running on forked repositories. A quick investigation revealed that Travis CI was passing encrypted secrets to PR builds on forks. Further examination of our logs and artifacts indicated that this had been happening since about September 3, 2021. This security bug was subsequently confirmed by Travis CI. See this CVE for more details on this incident. As far as we know, there were no actual exploits against conda-forge which used this vulnerability.
When contributing packages to conda-forge, Grayskull can make your life much easier. Grayskull generates recipes for Python packages hosted on PyPI.
Conda-forge is participating in the upcoming round of Outreachy i.e May 2021 to August 2021. The goal of this program is to increase participation from under-represented groups in free and open-source software. Outreachy is organized by Software Freedom Conservancy.
As 2020 winds down, the Core team thought it'd be fun to review some of the big accomplishments our community has made this year.