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Changes:

• Add Primitive Tool:
• Drag & Drop Modifiers
• Improved Area Border Selection and Dragging
• UI: Pan 2D Region When Dragging to Boundary
• Curves: Implement Handles for selected points only (Overlay)
• Curves: Disable Curve Normals by default
• Preferences: Customize default empty size for collection instances
• UI: undo/redo support for text fields
• UI: Curve Edit Stroke Panel Layout
• UI: Windows Shell Links & Improved Mac Aliases
• UI: rename Cycles point light Size to Radius, for consistency and clarity
• VSE UI: Add buttons for swap Effect strip inputs
• VSE UI: Rename Scene Strip panel and move View panel on top
• VSE UI: Group Show Elements in View Menu, Use Consistent Naming
• VSE: Add warnings for failed proxy encoding
• VSE: Add select under playhead, and shortcuts for left, right, under.
• VSE: Remove delete confirmation pop-up
• VSE: Use color picker for color strip.
• VSE UI: Add a proxy menu to Preview/View menu
• VSE UI: Text panel adjustments
• Eyedropper: Support get samples from other windows
• Gizmo Library: New Snap Gizmo
• Sculpt: Cloth Filter
• Sculpt: Pose Brush Scale/Transform deform mode
• Sculpt: Pose Brush Face Sets FK mode
• Sculpt: Improve twist axis in Pose FK mode
• LibOverride: Make constraints fully overrideable.
• LibOverride: Make camera data-block properties overrideable.
• LibOverride: Make all modifiers properties overridable.
• Modifiers: Add normalize weights option to vertex weight modifiers
• EEVEE: Refactor of eevee_material.c
• Fluid: Foundation for new OpenVDB file IO
• Annotations: Add Stabilization for draw tool
• GPencil: New Percentage parameter in Build modifier
• UV: use selection for 'Seams from Islands'
• Armature: increase maximum delectable bones from 4096 to 8192
• Cycles: Enable OptiX on all Maxwell+ GPUs
• Cycles: Added shadow terminator offset parameter.
• Cycles: change perspective depth pass to be more standard
• OpenSubdiv Refactor
• BVHCache: Performance
• DrawManager: Graph Task Scheduling
• Mesh: skip conversion from edit-mesh to mesh in edit-mode
• FBX: Make importing heavy animations twice more quicker.
• New Release Versioning

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