1.8.0

Enhancements:

• Compute package hashes in threads. (#83)

Bug fixes:

• Fix running from a read-only working directory (#44)
• Fix symlinks to directories being incorrectly placed in the info tarball when transmuting .tar.bz2- to .conda-format packages (#84)
• No longer generate emtpy metadata.json in v2 packages (#88)
• Fix for TypeError in tarball.py. (#86)

Deprecations:

• Remove Python 2 support.

Other:

• Added project board, issue staleness, thread locking and label automation using GitHub action workflows to improve maintenance of GitHub project. More information can be found in the infra repo: https://github.com/conda/infra

• Removed unused continuous integration platform config files.

Contributors:

• @dholth made their first contribution in #83
• @conda-bot made their first contribution in #87
• @chenghlee made their first contribution in #90
• @analog-cbarber made their first contribution in #89
• @chrisburr made their first contribution in #91
• @vz-x made their first contribution in #86
• @jezdez made their first contribution in #92

Full Changelog: 1.7.3...1.8.0