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- Fix generating a Python 2 environment from Python 3 creates invalid python activator - by :user:`gaborbernat`. (`1776 <https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/issues/1776>`_)
- Fix pinning seed packages via ``app-data`` seeder raised ``Invalid Requirement`` - by :user:`gaborbernat`. (`1779 <https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/issues/1779>`_)
- Do not stop interpreter discovery if we fail to find the system interpreter for a executable during discovery
- by :user:`gaborbernat`. (`1781 <https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/issues/1781>`_)
- On CPython2 POSIX platforms ensure ``syconfig.get_makefile_filename`` exists within the virtual environment (this is used by some c-extension based libraries - e.g. numpy - for building) - by :user:`gaborbernat`. (`1783 <https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/issues/1783>`_)
- Better handling of options :option:`copies` and :option:`symlinks`. Introduce priority of where the option is set
to follow the order: CLI, env var, file, hardcoded. If both set at same level prefers copy over symlink. - by
:user:`gaborbernat`. (`1784 <https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/issues/1784>`_)
- Upgrade pip for Python ``2.7`` and ``3.5+`` from ``20.0.2`` to ``20.1`` - by :user:`gaborbernat`. (`1793 <https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/issues/1793>`_)
- Fix CPython is not discovered from Windows registry, and discover pythons from Windows registry in decreasing order
by version - by :user:`gaborbernat`. (`1796 <https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/issues/1796>`_)
- Fix symlink detection for creators - by :user:`asottile` (`1803 <https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/issues/1803>`_)