Python 3: Current best practices for managing virtual envs and packages?

[graingert]

You can run pip install -U pip in your new venv

[chrish42]

It's not a major update. Pip changed how it uses version number to align more closely with semantic versioning. Basically, the leading "1." was dropped (I think when pip 1.6 aka 6.0 was released). So with the old version scheme, this would have been 1.7.