How to suppress channel update alerts while maintaining security patch visibility

Managing large-scale Anaconda environments often results in frequent notifications regarding new package versions across channels like conda-forge. While the auto_update_conda setting handles prompts for the manager itself, the repetitive alerts for channel-level updates can create significant noise during routine development workflows.

The goal is to configure the condarc to silence these non-essential notifications without losing the ability to identify critical security-related patches. There is uncertainty regarding whether global configurations effectively override environment-specific alert behaviors when using the libmamba solver.

Does setting notify_channel_updates to false suppress all alerts, or does it prioritize certain metadata? Is there a specific configuration to filter out standard version bumps while still flagging high-priority security updates?