diff --git a/docs/sphinx/source/user_guide/installation.rst b/docs/sphinx/source/user_guide/installation.rst
index ec3ef3abff..1a79f6b6b4 100644
--- a/docs/sphinx/source/user_guide/installation.rst
+++ b/docs/sphinx/source/user_guide/installation.rst
@@ -60,14 +60,10 @@ using the conda package manager in the
 To install the most recent stable release of pvlib-python in a
 non-editable way, use one of the following commands to install pvlib-python::
 
-    # get the package from the pvlib conda channel
-    # best option for installing pvlib in the base Anaconda distribution
-    conda install -c pvlib pvlib
-
     # get the package from the conda-forge conda channel
-    # best option if using pvlib.forecast module
     # strongly recommend installing in a separate conda env as shown below
-    conda create -n pvlib -c conda-forge pvlib-python; conda activate pvlib
+    # note: both "pvlib" and "pvlib-python" work on conda-forge
+    conda create -n pvlib -c conda-forge pvlib; conda activate pvlib
 
     # get the package from the Python Package Index
     # best option if you know what you are doing
@@ -84,7 +80,7 @@ non-editable way, use one of the following commands to install pvlib-python::
     `ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'netCDF4'`
     you can either install pvlib with all optional dependencies using
     `pip install pvlib[optional]`, or you can install pvlib from conda-forge
-    `conda create -n pvlib -c conda-forge pvlib-python; conda activate pvlib`.
+    `conda create -n pvlib -c conda-forge pvlib; conda activate pvlib`.
 
 If your system complains that you don't have access privileges or asks
 for a password then you're probably trying to install pvlib into your
diff --git a/docs/sphinx/source/whatsnew/v0.9.5.rst b/docs/sphinx/source/whatsnew/v0.9.5.rst
index 23149d5d25..adf31d02f6 100644
--- a/docs/sphinx/source/whatsnew/v0.9.5.rst
+++ b/docs/sphinx/source/whatsnew/v0.9.5.rst
@@ -4,6 +4,11 @@
 v0.9.5 (anticipated March 2023)
 -------------------------------
 
+Starting with this version, new releases are no longer distributed through
+the ``pvlib`` `conda channel<https://anaconda.org/pvlib/pvlib>`_.  We recommend
+``conda`` users install from the ``conda-forge`` channel instead (see
+:ref:`installation`).
+
 
 Deprecations
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~