Updating and Upgrading

Updating Brightway Libraries

Brightway is being actively developed, with frequent new releases. The update procedure varies slightly depending on whether you have installed Brightway using pip, conda, or mamba. In a terminal or command line shell with your Brightway environment activated, run one of the following:

pip install -U brightway25
conda update -c conda-forge -c cmutel brightway25
mamba update -c conda-forge -c cmutel brightway25

Warning

Apple Silicon users should update brightway25_nosolver.

You can use the same syntax to update individual packages:

pip install -U <my_cool_package>

Upgrading from Brightway Version 2

Individual projects can be migrate to Brightway version 2.5

import bw2data as bd

bd.projects.set_current('<project_name>')
bd.projects.migrate_project_25()