Improvements
- Always use a bash login shell to execute all remote SSH commands, overriding any system default shell [[1502]](https://github.com/aiidateam/aiida-core/pull/1502)
- Reduced the size of the distributed package by almost half by removing test fixtures and generating the data on the fly [[1645]](https://github.com/aiidateam/aiida-core/pull/1645)
- Removed the explicit dependency upper limit for `scipy` [[1492]](https://github.com/aiidateam/aiida-core/pull/1492)
- Resolved various dependency requirement conflicts [[1488]](https://github.com/aiidateam/aiida-core/pull/1488)
Minor bug fixes
- Fixed a bug in `verdi node delete` that would throw an exception for certain cases [[1564]](https://github.com/aiidateam/aiida-core/pull/1564)
- Fixed a bug in the `cif` endpoint of the REST API [[1490]](https://github.com/aiidateam/aiida-core/pull/1490)