From 40481904248a564b93da1937f200c14c6f2ed1ee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tomasz Kalinowski <kalinowskit@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2024 14:19:31 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] add NEWS

---
 NEWS.md | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 7d7ba883e..4ccfc90fc 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -7,6 +7,9 @@
 - Fixed segfault encountered in RStudio when rapidly switching 
   between R and Python chunks in a Quarto document (#1665).
 
+- Improved behavior when the conda binary used to create an environment
+  could not be resolved (contributed by @tl-hbk, #1654, #1659)
+
 # reticulate 1.39.0
 
 - Python background threads can now run in parallel with the R session (#1641).