Official blog posts: https://www.anaconda.com/blog/developer-blog/improved-security-performance-in-anaconda-distribution-5/ https://www.anaconda.com/blog/devel

Official blog posts: https://www.anaconda.com/blog/developer-blog/improved-security-performance-in-anaconda-distribution-5/ https://www.anaconda.com/blog/developer-blog/improved-securi... https://www.anaconda.com/blog/developer-blog/announcing-the-release-of-anaconda-distribution-5-0/ https://www.anaconda.com/blog/developer-blog/announcing-the-... https://www.anaconda.com/blog/developer-blog/utilizing-the-new-compilers-in-anaconda-distribution-5/ https://www.anaconda.com/blog/developer-blog/utilizing-the-n... I would recommend using conda-build to build packages, since it provides a lot of tooling to ensure things work well and to detect problems. You can still create software by taring up the final ${PREFIX} if you wish, but if it's open source stuff then the best thing to do is to try to get the conda build recipes accepted by conda-forge. The recipes that make the Anaconda Distribution can be found at: https://github.com/AnacondaRecipes/aggregate https://github.com/AnacondaRecipes/aggregate