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Would you like a graphical installer for Pixi GUI? We're considering to add it to the MSI installer on Windows. Let us know – especially if you are distributing Pixi in-house.

A brain in a conda package. What!?

Read our latest blogpost on how to ship AI/ML models with conda packages!

https://prefix.dev/blog/packaging-ai-ml-models-as-conda-packages

The latest Pixi releases and installer on Windows are properly signed with a Microsoft Certificate.

Would it be useful to integrate signing for macOS and Windows into rattler-build?

Pixi skills are kinda cool. A couple extremely useful ones already hosted on prefix – such as the `conda-forge` skill, or the `rattler-build` skill. It's useful because it contains a bunch of expert knowledge, digestible for agents.

Everyone loves shell completions, right? With carapace, you get amazing shell completions for most CLI tools, including Pixi since the latest release. This works on all platforms and shells.

The @condaproject is moving forward with formalizing the current implemented standards! Strengthening the whole ecosystem and promoting collaboration.

rattler-build handles thousands of real world packages, and they often come with small patches. Historically, we used a mix of `git apply` and `patch`, but both have issues for cross-platform compatibility with a wide range of real-world patches. Now, we have our own Rust library

When you're building recipes for conda-forge, there is an example list that you can use as inspiration for your own recipe!

Hopefully we can extend this list with more community help!

https://conda-forge.org/docs/maintainer/example_recipes/

Today was a good day for the @gnome ecosystem on @condaforge! Two PRs merged to get more low level libraries: libadwaita, sassc, appstream, libshumate and json-glibc by Dan Yeaw and Felix Häcker.

Last week, we merged a large refactor of rattler-build to split it up into multiple crates and make the parser even more strict. As part of this work (together with @anacondainc) we ran the new parser over >3000 @condaforge feedstocks already converted to v1.

One of our favorite features of Pixi GUI: Notifications when tasks complete! A bit strange that the native Terminal app does not support this.

We're taking supply chain security seriously for the Conda ecosystem. That's why we integrate deeply with the @projectsigstore ecosystem for attestation – soon coming to recipes as well to validate source code (sdist, github release) attestations.

We're excited to announce Pixi GUI, developed by our working student Felix Häcker! With the goal to make Pixi accessible to a wider audience while also empowering expert users.

Find out more in Felix's blog post: https://prefix.dev/blog/introducing-pixi-gui