From 8a40a84b0cabe94831d4f87c0f83b5d41ab05777 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sufi Kaur <56102473+sufikaur@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2026 16:12:09 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Update core.yml

---
 .github/workflows/core.yml | 12 ++++++------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/core.yml b/.github/workflows/core.yml
index 192fe792..4c171388 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/core.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/core.yml
@@ -53,8 +53,8 @@ jobs:
     # OS and/or Python version don't make a difference, so we choose ubuntu and 3.10 for performance
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-      - uses: actions/setup-python@v5
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v6
+      - uses: actions/setup-python@v6
         with:
           python-version: ${{ env.DEFAULT_PYTHON_VERSION }}
       - name: Install Black
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
       - name: Checkout source
-        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        uses: actions/checkout@v6
       - name: Run Spell Checker
         uses: crate-ci/typos@master
 
@@ -95,9 +95,9 @@ jobs:
           - os: win64
             runner-image: windows-2022
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v6
       - name: Set up Conda environment
-        uses: conda-incubator/setup-miniconda@v2.2.0
+        uses: conda-incubator/setup-miniconda@v4
         with:
           activate-environment: ${{ env.IDAES_CONDA_ENV_NAME_DEV }}
           python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ jobs:
           pytest -v idaes_examples --ignore=idaes_examples/notebooks/docs/surrogates/sco2/alamo/ 
       - name: Upload pytest-xdist worker logs
         if: success() || failure()
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v7
         with:
           name: pytest_worker_logs--${{ runner.os }}-${{ github.run_id }}-${{ github.run_attempt }}-${{ runner.os }}-py${{ matrix.python-version }}
           path: "tests_*.log"

From ed5bd5e1abcf0d8bc2a8b75d759ab3937f5a09fc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sufi Kaur <56102473+sufikaur@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2026 11:05:52 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] define conda forge channel and remove defaults

---
 .github/workflows/core.yml | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/core.yml b/.github/workflows/core.yml
index 4c171388..405f0b7f 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/core.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/core.yml
@@ -101,6 +101,9 @@ jobs:
         with:
           activate-environment: ${{ env.IDAES_CONDA_ENV_NAME_DEV }}
           python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+          miniforge-version: latest
+          channels: conda-forge
+          conda-remove-defaults: 'true'
       - name: Install the code
         uses: ./.github/actions/install
         with: