Features:
- added --token and --user flags to pass corresponding information to anaconda upload (#921)
- added conda render command that outputs a fully-rendered meta.yaml to either stdout, or to file (with --file) (#908)
- support source checkout tools specified in meta.yaml. If source checkout fails at the rendering phase, source checkout and rendering are re-done after the build environment is created. (#843, #946)
- fn is now optional when a URL specifies a filename. (#942)
- CRAN skeleton generator now uses MSYS2 for Windows support (#942)
- conda build & conda render both recursively look for meta.yaml (support conda-forge feedstock submodules) (#908)
- Whitelist MAKEFLAGS environment variable. Setting this outside conda build should take effect in your build. Parallelize on *nix by adding -j here, instead of -j${CPU_COUNT} in your build.sh. This helps on CI's, where CPU_COUNT is not always well-behaved. (#917)
- Run python_d executable on windows when debug feature is active (#724)
- add conda build flag --keep-old-work that temporarily moves your last build, then moves it back after completion. For debugging, when more than one package is involved. (#833)
- Allow selectors in imported jinja templates (#739)

Bug fixes:
- fixed several instances wherein --skip-existing did not work (#897, #945)
- Fully render recipe before outputting build string - fixes empty spots where GIT_* info should have been (#923)
- Add MSYS2 path conversion filters to avoid issues with Win 7.1 SDK (#900)
- Address PyPI's change of URL format (#922,
- Fix invalid gcc "-m 32" flag (#916)
- Fix empty section (due to selectors) handling regression (#919)
- Fix regression in handling of VS2008 Pro (not Express + VC for Python 2.7). It is important to at least try to run vcvarsall.bat. (#913)
- Fix CPAN skeleton generator (handle missing sections better) (#912)
- Make test/requires versions match build/requires without additional pinning (#907)
- Remove hard-coded CYGWIN path from conda-build's custom PATH (#903)
- Source is downloaded before testing, fixing an issue where if build machine and some other test machine had different source, strange things happened. (#946)
- Fix regression with Python 3.x fixing shebangs (#892)
- Fix conda inspect crashes by using conda-meta info rather than filenames or dist names for package info (#947)

Miscellany:
- restore AppVeyor testing for Windows builds (#864)
- Build py3.5 on Appveyor (#938)
- PEP8 cleanup; use flake8 rather than pyflakes (#938)
- limited scope of project locking to avoid lock conflicts between build and rendering (#923)
- set up anaconda.org build infrastructure (#924)
- on Windows, environment variables are written to the temporary bld.bat in the source work folder. (#933)

Contributors:
- @brentp
- @chapmanb
- @dan-blanchard
- @groutr
- @johanneskoester
- @jschueller
- @kalefranz
- @mcg1969
- @mingwandroid
- @mjuric
- @msarahan
- @stuarteberg
- @tadeu