# By what rules do your curated packages in main/ and anaconda/ channel get updated

**URL:** <https://forum.anaconda.com/t/by-what-rules-do-your-curated-packages-in-main-and-anaconda-channel-get-updated/14195>\
**Category:** Packages & Environments\
**Created:** [March 10, 2022, 10:21am UTC](https://forum.anaconda.com/t/by-what-rules-do-your-curated-packages-in-main-and-anaconda-channel-get-updated/14195 "2022-03-10T10:21:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![johannes.hochreiter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/0075a9/32.png) [@johannes.hochreiter](https://forum.anaconda.com/u/johannes.hochreiter)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2022, 10:21am UTC](https://forum.anaconda.com/t/by-what-rules-do-your-curated-packages-in-main-and-anaconda-channel-get-updated/14195/1 "2022-03-10T10:21:40Z")

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I have not been able to find any information that somehow describes the rules for when packages receive updates inside the main channel. I know there always is conda-forge, so far I’m still a fan of the main channel as it just works.

There is also a concrete example that made me ask that question:  
The [black code formatter](https://github.com/psf/black) has finally received a stable version some time ago (and a lot of new features) yet the versions in [main/](https://anaconda.org/main/black) and anaconda/ already seem a bit dusty with their age being more than two years.  
Is there a rule that blocks any updates? Have those just been fogotten? Do I really have to move to conda-forge?

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**Author:** ![danpatterson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/00a5b5/32.png) [@danpatterson](https://forum.anaconda.com/u/danpatterson)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2022, 12:05pm UTC](https://forum.anaconda.com/t/by-what-rules-do-your-curated-packages-in-main-and-anaconda-channel-get-updated/14195/2 "2022-03-19T12:05:23Z")

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It would be good to know. Some people are with organizations that only allow updates from the main channel. Similar issue with trying to get an update for Spyder [Update Spyder to the latest version - Product Help / Packages & Environments - Anaconda Community](https://forum.anaconda.com/t/update-spyder-to-the-latest-version/10316)