New Features
* constrained, optional dependencies (4982)
* conda shell function (5044, 5141, 5162, 5169, 5182)
* resolve 5160 conda xontrib plugin (5157)
* resolve 1543 add support and tests for --no-deps and --only-deps (5265)
Deprecations/Breaking Changes
* remove support for with_features_depends (5191)
Improvements
* filter out unwritable package caches from conda clean command (4620)
* envs_manager, requested spec history, declarative solve, and private env tests (4676, 5114, 5094, 5145)
* make python entry point format match pip entry points (5010)
* resolve 5113 clean up CLI imports to improve process startup time (4799)
* resolve 5121 add features/track_features support for MatchSpec (5054)
* resolve 4671 hold verify backoff count in transaction context (5122)
* resolve 5078 record package metadata after tarball extraction (5148)
* resolve 3580 support stacking environments (5159)
* resolve 3763, 4378 allow pip requirements.txt syntax in environment files (3969)
* resolve 5147 add 'config files' to conda info (5269)
* use --format=json to parse list of pip packages (5205)
Bug Fixes
* fix some conda-build compatibility issues (5089)
* resolve 5123 export toposort (5124)
* fix 5132 signal handler can only be used in main thread (5133)
* fix orphaned --clobber parser arg (5188)
* fix 3814 don't remove directory that's not a conda environment (5204)
* fix 4468 _license stack trace (5206)
* fix 4987 conda update --all no longer displays full list of packages (5228)
* fix 3489 don't error on remove --all if environment doesn't exist (5231)
* fix 1509 bash doesn't need full path for pre/post link/unlink scripts on unix (5252)
Non-User-Facing Changes
* eliminate index modification in Resolve.__init__ (4333)
* new MatchSpec implementation (4158)
* update conda.recipe for 4.4 (5086)
* resolve 5118 organization and cleanup for 4.4 release (5115)
* remove unused disk space check instructions (5167)
* localfs adapter tests (5181)
* extra config command tests (5185)
* add coverage for confirm (5203)
* clean up FileNotFoundError and DirectoryNotFoundError (5237)