Conan Repository Exclusive !free! Jun 2026

This is a critical security feature. Without exclusive policies, a malicious actor could upload a public package named internal-crypto-lib to the public Conan Center with a higher version number (e.g., 2.0 ). If your build system searches public remotes first, it might accidentally download the malicious public package instead of your private one.

conan lock create . conan lock modify --add-remote my-private --exclusive-packages=* conan repository exclusive

: Exclusive rules take the highest priority in the resolution graph, overriding the standard remote order. 4. Use Cases This is a critical security feature

"Developers keep accidentally uploading debug binaries to the exclusive repo." conan repository exclusive

Manually installing libraries on every developer machine, leading to "it works on my machine" syndrome. The Solution: An Exclusive Repository