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+The ``app_packages`` folder now occurs *after* the ``app`` folder in the package resolution path on Windows, Linux, macOS and iOS. This will result in subtle changes in behavior if you have packages defined in your ``sources``  that have the same name as packages installed from your ``requires``.
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+``.pth`` files created by packages installed as dependencies are now correctly processed during application startup on macOS, Windows, Linux and iOS.