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BLENDER TODAY #164
Blender sighting on the production of Ghostbusters Afterlife (thanks Samir) https://youtu.be/2TdeBrw2g_M?t=76

UI
UI: Add light count to viewport statistics https://developer.blender.org/rBb54e741a8b5655208ae666653639885afe15c5e8
Viewport normal drawing with constant length https://developer.blender.org/D11487
Make loopcut drawing consistent between gizmo and operator. https://developer.blender.org/rBb867df903fc89df06b835e2c9172612887efc761
UI: VFont Display Names https://developer.blender.org/D12069
VSE: Allow Wingdings and Symbol Fonts https://developer.blender.org/D12124

GEOMETRY NODES
Geometry Nodes: Curve Set Spline Type https://developer.blender.org/D12013
Geometry Nodes: Select by Handle Type Node https://developer.blender.org/D12135
Geometry Nodes: Add more warnings for out of bounds parameters https://developer.blender.org/rBbd44e82b255a231242a1b7ddd59cee7830af20ea

GREASE PENCIL
GPencil: New Brush option to define Caps type https://developer.blender.org/D11999
GPencil: New Select Random operator https://developer.blender.org/D12157
GPencil: New Merge Layer keymap: Shift+Ctrl+M https://developer.blender.org/rB27b9cb7a1e675930d348300fb11446a0c6d35fde

I/O
USD: add USD importer https://developer.blender.org/rBea54cbe1b42efb3107285c89685f555c06997062

RIGGING
Action Constraint: add Split Channels Mix choices from Copy Transforms https://developer.blender.org/D7547

ASSETS
Asset Browser: Adjust header pulldowns to be Asset Browser specific https://developer.blender.org/rBd8bf332f86b3644b016950b596bb0814f245e995
Asset Browser: Don’t show inapplicable filter and display settings https://developer.blender.org/D12059
Asset Browser: Proper context menu for assets https://developer.blender.org/rB3ff5d8f719f592c2ea17533532708e883a8baa96

CYCLES
Cycles: More flexible GI Approximation AO distance control https://developer.blender.org/D12112
Render: move Cycles visibility, holdout and shadow catcher properties to Blender

POTPOURRI
BMesh: support laplacian smooth for n-gons https://developer.blender.org/rBc15635bd8d5483a56107b5c31d8dc0b6a691a767
macOS: Portable builds with dynamic libraries. https://developer.blender.org/rB652fbc200500497a67bd11d18b786587ba34e3d9
LibOverride: Add RNA API to reset/delete overrides. https://developer.blender.org/rBa8185d2d74d42389d881890897958c1223eb5cf1

CYCLES X
Cycles X: More flexible OIDN prefiltering settings https://developer.blender.org/D12140
Cycles X: add camera visibility and shadow catcher options for lights https://developer.blender.org/D12141

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