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Changelog

Total: 239 commits, of which 61 are fixes and 73 cleanup.

Animation

• Animation: add function for deduplicating FCurve keys - Sybren A. Stüvel
• Animation: Add in Parent space alignment option to the Transform Orientation gizmo - Nate Rupsis
• Animation: make properties from motion path library overrideable - Christoph Lendenfeld

Assets

• Assets: Do Not Show Blank Read-Only Metadata - Harley Acheson

Attributes

• Attributes: Integrate implicit sharing with the attribute API - Hans Goudey

Curves

• Curves: Optimize edit mode selection draw extraction - Hans Goudey

Cycles

• Cycles: re-enable AMD GPU binaries on Windows - Brecht Van Lommel
• Cycles: add hardware raytracing support to oneAPI device - Nikita Sirgienko

GPencil

• GPencil: Several Weight Paint additions - Sietse Brouwer

Geometry Nodes

• Geometry Nodes: new Index of Nearest node - illua1
• Geometry Nodes: Slightly optimize mesh to curve node - Hans Goudey
• Geometry Nodes: support outputting field without computing full node - Jacques Lucke

Mesh

• Mesh: Cache loose vertices - Hans Goudey
• Mesh: Move edges to a generic attribute - Hans Goudey

macOS

• macOS: Add open files to system recent files - Ankit Meel

Text object

• Text object: operators to move cursor to the top or bottom - Damien Picard

UI

• UI: Make it possible to add shortcuts to UI operators. - Richard Antalik
• UI: Change the name of Invert nodes to Invert Color - zanqdo
• UI: OS File Operations Within File Browser - Harley Acheson

VFONT

• VFONT: Text Selection Operator - Harley Acheson

Viewport Compositor

• Realtime Compositor: Implement ID Mask node - Omar Emara

VSE

• VSE: Add sound strip retiming support - Richard Antalik

WindowManager

• WindowManager: Context Creation - Jeroen Bakker