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BLENDER TODAY #173
Sprite Fright premiere date! https://cloud.blender.org/blog/sprite-fright-premiere-date/

ASSET BROWSER
Assets: Show all assets indirectly nested inside the active catalog https://developer.blender.org/rB3391a2ef1d27dcf1ec1851eefc74e77114e6b493
Assets: Support Renaming Catalogs in the UI https://developer.blender.org/rB539575b585a018eabda9137d724967692433165a
Asset Browser: Context menu for catalogs https://developer.blender.org/rB8f8982d57c7a022a4040169e19d1943da62c42f9
Asset Browser: Show catalog add & delete icons on mouse hover (only)
Asset Browser: Move Asset Library selector to navigation bar https://developer.blender.org/rBc7b237e7d1a4c2adf03d5b7dc97b87691e6e224b

VSE
Sequencer: 2D cursor for the preview & transform https://developer.blender.org/rBd04d27b406b856396102452cab0eedf315e94a54
Sequencer: add option to toggle gizmos https://developer.blender.org/rBebe216f532845069bc5bb7b45e2eda03756b81cc
VSE: Implement the bounding box (xform) tool in the seq preview window https://developer.blender.org/rB482806c81678e351ff171c68a757386a5b2d4676
VSE: Reduce memory footprint when using thumbnails https://developer.blender.org/rBb534806ecb9847c6929d5ef107a2cb729fb636c9
Keymap: fallback tool support for the sequencer https://developer.blender.org/rB876b2504997e296bc926feb8b530ff1898f35cbc
UI: add sequencer preview context menu https://developer.blender.org/rBce66075d0027d21044fe46591cd10d211443162a
Sequencer: improvements to preview selection https://developer.blender.org/rB68dc970219ef7a559b48bd1b3e45d033367b4172

GEOMETRY NODES
Geometry Nodes: Align Euler to Vector Node https://developer.blender.org/rB79425ed3267663ee482ee3ffcc542d86888103af
Geometry Nodes: Separate and Delete Geometry for fields https://developer.blender.org/rB9c004864511f80e48a48a4d8e459d8f05c40f64d

UI
User Interface: Remove the green background when inside a node group https://developer.blender.org/rB919e513fa8f9fb4f1304ea4b752869b6d63b1608
User Interface: Make the background inside a node group brighter https://developer.blender.org/rBebe23745281e8675a6b45c39f79441a4f896963e
User Interface: Use theme alpha for the nodes frames background https://developer.blender.org/rBff9587d28eab0339e8341673ed90db29a2932a95
UI: Support tooltips for superimposed icons https://developer.blender.org/rB2aca08fc1cb6448b593afde7b00ba34ce590551b
UI: Support showing superimposed icons as disabled (with disabled hint) https://developer.blender.org/rBff57ce86170d2e440d2e0566bf3c4a74bb745b32

CYCLES
Cycles: fully decouple triangle and curve primitive storage from BVH2 https://developer.blender.org/rB04857cc8efb385af5d8f40b655eeca41e2b73494
Cycles: Improve volume stack size calculation https://developer.blender.org/rBeca2a419648a9e4288f56b921dabafed0cb97526

ADD-ONS
Edit Linked Library: Added support for more library types. https://developer.blender.org/rBAe9f83053149def0f561ca5769f8bc4f5bc335247