NEW COLOR ATTRIBUTES – Blender.Today LIVE #189

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NEW VERTEX COLORS
Unify vertex and sculpt colors into new color attribute system https://developer.blender.org/rBeae36b

POTPOURRI
Fix: T78228 Send all python errors to info editor https://developer.blender.org/rB2d2bae
Preferences: enable Duplicate Data for curves and point cloud objects https://developer.blender.org/rBe40b0d

Fix setting key shortcuts for insert keyframe menu items https://developer.blender.org/rBcda333
Fix T97098: Color filter sharpening artifacts. https://developer.blender.org/rBd683ea
Fix T96824: New 3.1 OBJ exporter writes incorrect polygon/vertex groups in some cases https://developer.blender.org/rBb32cb0
Fix T97002: Preserve multi socket link order https://developer.blender.org/D14535

UI
UI: Add support for showing socket descriptions in tooltips https://developer.blender.org/rB484a91
UDIM: Move UDIM grid controls to the Overlay panel https://developer.blender.org/rB92c89d
Curves: Hair to Curves rename in Cycles/EEVEE UI https://developer.blender.org/rB8b0430
BLF: sub-pixel positioning support https://developer.blender.org/rBae4387
Gizmos: enable gizmos for the action space https://developer.blender.org/D13999
Render: Add operators to add all used or remove all unused lightgroups https://developer.blender.org/rB2e77a8

ANIMATION
Animation: Select markers before/after current frame https://developer.blender.org/rBf1ae69
Animation: Add F2 for renaming markers https://developer.blender.org/rBd6e724
NLA: Keyframe Remap Through Upper Strips https://developer.blender.org/rB3acbe2
Object: Set Parent (Keep Transform Without Inverse) https://developer.blender.org/D14581

GEOMETRY NODES
Curves: initial geometry nodes support for curves objects https://developer.blender.org/D14277
Curves: Port tangent and normal calculation to the new data-block https://developer.blender.org/rBceed37
Curves: Port curve to mesh node to the new data-block https://developer.blender.org/rB7484f2
Geometry Nodes: show used named attributes in nodes https://developer.blender.org/D14618
Geometry Nodes: Add “Connected” mode to Merge by Distance node https://developer.blender.org/rB81ec3d
Geometry Nodes: Parallelize mesh line node https://developer.blender.org/rB8f344b
Curves: Add support for new curves type in Set Material node https://developer.blender.org/rBc4f7f5

GREASE PENCIL
GPencil: Add skip option to envelope modifier https://developer.blender.org/D14503

CYCLES
Cycles: Support adding Lightgroups from the object/world properties https://developer.blender.org/rB321402
Fix T97159: AOV Pass in Cycles always gets Alpha Value of 1 for whole image https://developer.blender.org/rB0b05e0
Revert “Cycles: enable HIP for Vega and Vega II (Radeon 7) GPUs on Windows” https://developer.blender.org/rB2d472b

CURVES
Curves: improve Add menu for new curves object https://developer.blender.org/D14556
Curves: new Grow/Shrink brush https://developer.blender.org/D14474
Curves: operator to snap curves to surface https://developer.blender.org/rB50869b
Curves: expose convert to particle system operator in sculpt mode https://developer.blender.org/rB30f9eb
Curves: Port legacy curve viewport drawing to the new data-block https://developer.blender.org/rBb84255

PAINT
Painting: Canvas switcher for painting brushes/tools. https://developer.blender.org/rB8b7cd1

PERFORMANCE
PBVH Pixel extractor. https://developer.blender.org/rBe96a80
Edit Mesh: Parallelize bounds calculation with deform modifiers https://developer.blender.org/rB0ba061
Functions: parallelize materializing arrays after field evaluation https://developer.blender.org/rB2aff04
Functions: optimize simple generated multi-functions https://developer.blender.org/rB67c42e
OBJ: further optimize, cleanup and harden the new C++ importer https://developer.blender.org/rB213cd3

KEYMAP
Keymap: restore key-shortcut to remove from local-view https://developer.blender.org/rBf07649
PYTHON API
Text Editor: Get/Set region text API https://developer.blender.org/rBf49a73

ADD-ONS
FBX Export: Add Limit To Visible Objects checkbox to match GLTF export https://developer.blender.org/rBA4075c
Collection Manager: Add QCD widget preference https://developer.blender.org/rBAa65df

WM: avoid unnecessary undo step creation when duplicating https://developer.blender.org/rBd00de9

SHOUT OUT
UI: improve descriptions for camera lens and lens unit https://developer.blender.org/D14602

APPLE
Metal: GLSL shader compatibility 3rd pass https://developer.blender.org/rBb0dc3a
Metal: GLSL shader compatibility 4th pass https://developer.blender.org/rBe28f07

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