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+# Moving to GCC 14 and Clang 19 as default compiler versions
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+As part of our regular toolchain updates, we're planning to update the default
+versions of GCC (for linux) to v14 and of Clang (for OSX) to v19, in one week.
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+For more details, see https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-forge-pinning-feedstock/pull/7421.