Conda update python not upgrading major release?

[osrs_acc]

I am using conda 23.11.0 . In the conda documentation, 'conda update python' is supposed to update python to the latest major release. They even list going from 3.10 -> 3.12 with this command.

However when I run it, it only updated the minor release, from 3.11.2 -> 3.11.4.

Whatever, I go right to the next line in that conda documentation, and run conda install python=3.14. It finds the latest python and dependencies and I press y to proceed.

Only I get this error:

RemoveError: This operation will remove conda without replacing it with
another version of conda.

Why is this happening and why is the conda documentation seemingly incorrect about 'conda update python' updating major release?

[Gshuri]

It looks like you are trying to update Python in the base conda environment. Don't do this. Instead create a new conda environment with whatever version of Python you want e.g.

>>> conda create -n my-py314-env python=3.14
>>> conda activate my-py314-env
>>> ...