Warning when updating pip

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I don’t normally pay a huge amount of attention to pip, just update it when pip itself tells me there’s a new version. Today though, I updated it when I saw the note from @pf_moore about 25.1. I updated it (this in a 3.13 Conda env):

% python -m pip install -U pip
Requirement already satisfied: pip in /Users/skip/.local/lib/python3.13/site-packages (25.0.1)
Collecting pip
  Downloading pip-25.1.1-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (3.6 kB)
Downloading pip-25.1.1-py3-none-any.whl (1.8 MB)
   ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 1.8/1.8 MB 6.6 MB/s eta 0:00:00
Installing collected packages: pip
  Attempting uninstall: pip
    Found existing installation: pip 25.0.1
    Uninstalling pip-25.0.1:
      Successfully uninstalled pip-25.0.1
Successfully installed pip-25.1.1
WARNING: There was an error checking the latest version of pip.

Is that warning something to be concerned about?

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I’ve just updated on Windows 10 without any warning.

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It’s difficult to tell without more inforamtion, but probably not. Maybe just some caching issue somewhere? I think the PyPI caches can take a while to update.

If it happens again (and ideally you can reproduce it with -v), feel free to raise an issue.