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The Coherent Neutrino-Nucleus Interaction Experiment (CONNIE) aims to detect the coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEvNS) of reactor antineutrinos off silicon nuclei using fully depleted high-resistivity charge-coupled devices (CCDs). The detector is located at a distance of 30 m from the core of the 3.8 GW Angra 2 nuclear reactor in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. With an active mass of 50 g, a readout noise better than 2 e- RMS and using data from 2016-2018, it was possible to set a 95% C.L. upper limit on the coherent scattering rate, which was used to place stringent constraints on simplified extensions of the Standard Model with light mediators. During 2019 and 2020 new data were acquired using a hardware rebinning approach in order to achieve a better signal-to-noise ratio, lowering the energy threshold to 50 eV. In 2021, the experiment was upgraded to host 2 skipper CCDs that are operating with a readout noise lower than 0.2 e- RMS in a stable mode. The recent results on CEvNS searches will be presented, and the performance of the new skipper CCD detectors and future prospects will be discussed.
