Hello. I created a python script which uses the ArcGIS API for Python. I created a new conda env for the script because i also use several non-esri libraries. The conda environment was cloned from a ArcGIS Pro 2.8 install. Our IT staff recently updated all our machines to ArcGIS 2.9. Now my script no longer runs. I get the following error message indicating an ArcGIS Pro version mismatch:

I activated the conda env before trying to execute my script, but there still seems to be a dependency on the pro-py3 environment.
Do i need to clone\create a new conda env based on the new version of ArcGIS Pro installed? I thought the advantage of using conda was to create independent environments that don't have these types of version dependencies.
Is there something that i'm not doing quite right here?
Thank you