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Changelog Total: 248 commits, of which 62 are fixes and 72 cleanup.

Animation

• Remove collection hotkeys from pose mode https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/adef3a45
• change Slider Popup menu hotkeys https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/e2a75814

Curves

• Avoid inverting selection when deleting elements https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/865f14c6
• Optmize and simplify point and curve deletion https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/f63cfd8e
• Improve IndexMask usage in curves sculpt brushes https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/1b19f629

Cycles

• light and shadow linking https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/ba3f26fa
• Path Guiding: Adding guiding on glossy surfaces via RIS https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/8d174585

Externals

• Externals: update fmtlib to latest version (10.0.0) https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/122c48ae

GPencil 3.0

• GPencil 3.0: Initial commit https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/3aaacd6e

Geometry Nodes

• expose simulation bake path in UI https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/dc33a8e9
• store path to simulation bake in modifier https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/edf4cb8b

I18n

Mesh

• Mesh: Avoid position copying in corrective smooth modifier https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/72309be3
• Mesh: Reimplement and unify topology maps https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/4d841e1b

Overlay-Next

• Overlay-Next: Initial implementation https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/9ae2dd57

Python API

• PyAPI: add bpy.app.help_text() for accessing output from --help https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/3a5ba15c
• PyAPI: add bpy.context.property, for property under the mouse cursor https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/6ba03467

Refactor Render Result to allow implicit buffer sharing

• Refactor Render Result to allow implicit buffer sharing https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/a5677d22

Transform

• Transform: remove precision modification upon starting navigation https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/fc854fc2

UI

• Temporarily Disable Apple-specific Text Modifier Support https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/07dbdd01
• Updated Windows File Registration Correction https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/f37f6093
• Text cursor behavior for Apple Devices https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/0e841924
• Updated Windows File Registration https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/9cf77efa
• Fix and improve a few messages https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/9f0807ac
• set the waiting cursor from pack/unpack operators https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/7fbac7e2

USD Curve Export

• USD Curve Export: Pinned CatmullRom Curve https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/a127707c

UV

• UV: Complete options for rotation during uv packing https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/f96e108b
• UV: Fix (unreported) uv packing with pinned islands and original bounding box https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/71d89dfa

Windows

• Windows: Do not auto-focus from our console https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/1b7c6cf1