3.0.0alpha2

Breaking changes:

• Support for post-build metadata (conda_version.txt and the like) has been removed.

Enhancements:

• use symlinks when copying to improve performance #1867
• load setup.cfg data in load_setup_py_data #1878
• calculate checksum and simplify cran skeleton #1879

Bug fixes:

• fix R's binary path on Windows #1870
• remove tab completion on CLI for compatibility with conda 4.4 #1795
• reduce scope of git try/except block so that GIT_FULL_HASH is available, even if tags are not #1873
• Fix "compiler" jinja2 looping, so that it is respected in subpackages #1874
• Fix license family comparison - case matching #1875
• Fix inspect linkages when multiple packages contain a library #1884
• avoid unnecessary computation of hashing #1888
• fix python imports not being run in test phase #1896
• fix path omission in paths.json for noarch packages #1895

Contributors:

• @abretaud
• @groutr
• @jjhelmus
• @kalefranz
• @Ma-Ba
• @mingwandroid
• @msarahan