GeoPandas 0.6.1 installed instead of 0.7.0 in conda windows 10

GeoPandas development team does not have control over the version which comes from conda defaults channel, but it does have control over conda-forge channel. GeoPandas installed from conda-forge will be always the most recent release, unless there are some other dependency constraints.

If using conda, ideally install GeoPandas using conda install -c conda-forge geopandas instead of simple conda install geopandas.

I had the exact same problem.

Using the code below was the only way I was able to install Geopandas 0.7.0 using Python 3.7.7:

git clone https://github.com/geopandas/geopandas.git

cd geopandas

pip install .