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Add release note about salt-pip

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with the ``salt`` user and group.
## Caveat of salt-pip
Salt ships with a wrapper script around pip called ``salt-pip``. Users should
use ``salt-pip`` to install any python packages needed to extend Salt.
``salt-pip`` installs python packages into an `extras-3.10` directory located
in the root of the ondir directory, by setting the ``--target`` argument for
pip. This ensures those packages remain installed when upgrading Salt. There is
a known bug in pip when using `--target` where scripts and other non-python
assets may not be cleaned up properly when un-installing. The Salt team is
working to resolve this bug in the up-stream pip project.
## Dropping support for Python 3.5 and 3.6
Python 3.5 and 3.6 will no longer be supported by Salt since they