* Improve CI for docs commits (#8387, #8401, #8417)
* Implement `conda init --reverse` to undo rc file and registry changes (#8400)
* Improve handling of unicode systems (#8342, #8435)
* Force the "COMSPEC" environment variable to always point to cmd.exe on windows. This was an implicit assumption that was not always true. (#8457, #8461)
### Bug fixes
* Add central C:/ProgramData/conda as a search path on Windows (#8272)
* remove direct use of ruamel_yaml (prefer internal abstraction, yaml_load) (#8392)
* Fix/improve `conda init` support for fish shell (#8437)
* Improve solver behavior in the presence of inconsistent environments (such as pip as a conda dependency of python, but also installed via pip itself) (#8444)
* Handle read-only filesystems for environments.txt (#8451, #8453)
* Fix conda env commands involving pip-installed dependencies being installed into incorrect locations (#8435)