TWO HUNDRED 🎂 Blender.Today LIVE #200

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BLENDER TODAY #200

CYCLES
* Generalize shader sorting / locality heuristic to all GPU devices https://developer.blender.org/rB523bbf
* Apple Silicon optimization to specialize intersection kernels https://developer.blender.org/rBda4ef0
* Refactor rays to have start and end distance, fix precision issues https://developer.blender.org/rB5152c7
* Add presets to the Performance panel https://developer.blender.org/rB5539fb
* Improve cache usage on Apple GPUs by chunking active indices https://developer.blender.org/rB4b1d31

* Render: Update light group membership in objects and world if lightgroup is renamed https://developer.blender.org/rB6db059

* Build: update Embree to 3.13.4, enable Neon2x on Arm https://developer.blender.org/rB757041

* Undo: Improve image undo performance https://developer.blender.org/rB44258b

GEOMETRY NODES
* Improve UV Sphere primitive performance https://developer.blender.org/rB7808ee

SPREADSHEET
* Spreadsheet: Implement selection filter for curves sculpt mode https://developer.blender.org/D15393

CURVES
* Support sculpting on deformed curves https://developer.blender.org/D15407
* Port fillet node to the new data-block https://developer.blender.org/rB2551cf

PERFORMANCE
* IDManagement: Speedup ID unique name assignment by tracking used names/basenames/suffixes https://developer.blender.org/rB7f8d05

I/O
* IO: speed up import of large amounts of objects in USD/OBJ by pre-sorting objects by name https://developer.blender.org/rB092732

LIBRARY OVERRIDES
* LibOverride: support ‘make override’ for all selected items https://developer.blender.org/rBee3fac

UV
* UV: Box and lasso selection for partially intersecting edges https://developer.blender.org/rB52b7f2
* UV: Edge support for select shortest path operator https://developer.blender.org/rB772574
* UV: add Snap Cursor to Origin https://developer.blender.org/D15055

* Render: camera depth of field support for armature bone targets https://developer.blender.org/rB2e70d5

* Add a ‘Apply and Delete All’ operation to shapekeys https://developer.blender.org/rB92ca92

UI
* Markers: Make delete confirmation depend on key used https://developer.blender.org/rB4344b2
* Enable “copy to selected” for new Curves modifiers https://developer.blender.org/rB9f1539
* Render: improve render border operator in image editor https://developer.blender.org/rB5ddbc1
* UI: translate quick favorites menu operator names https://developer.blender.org/rBf48fad
* UI: translate tooltips coming from menu descriptions https://developer.blender.org/rB9d73bb
* UI: make many modifier strings translatable https://developer.blender.org/rB180db0
* I18n: Add suport for labels from modifiers’ subpanels https://developer.blender.org/rBe69c44
* I18n: translate add node operator tooltips https://developer.blender.org/D15467

FIXES
* Fix T99036: hex color in “Add Color Attribute” https://developer.blender.org/rBcf9dd3

ADD-ONS
* Rigify: Allow entering name on first generation https://developer.blender.org/D14757
* Rigify: fix T95864 – inconsistent bone roll in the wolf metarig https://developer.blender.org/rBAc49be
* system_property_chart: support custom properties https://developer.blender.org/rBAb3646
* glTF exporter: Manage all 4 types of Vertex Colors (corner/point – byte/float) https://developer.blender.org/rBA2fcac
* Amaranth: Fix Debug feature to list users of image datablocks https://developer.blender.org/rBA4a522
* Amaranth: support listing images used by Empty objects in Debug tool https://developer.blender.org/rBA8d609
* Amaranth: Add check for unsaved images in Save/Reload operator https://developer.blender.org/rBA3c6a1
* Amaranth: Fix File Browser features showing up in Asset Browser https://developer.blender.org/rBAb0071
* Curve Assign Shape Keys: replace deprecated bgl module https://developer.blender.org/rBAf7c2f
* Curve Tools: replace deprecated bgl module https://developer.blender.org/rBAc383b
* Grease Pencil Tools: replace deprecated bgl module https://developer.blender.org/rBA294e8
* UV Layout: replace deprecated bgl module https://developer.blender.org/rBAb56a6

PYTHON
* Expose snap options in transform operators https://developer.blender.org/rBc48459
* Expose option for fallback tools keymap in GizmoGroup type https://developer.blender.org/rB441dd0
* Context: implement an active_action property that returns a single action https://developer.blender.org/rBcd2102
* Use appropriate context for the DopeSheet Action Custom Properties panel https://developer.blender.org/rB054a16
* Animation RNA: Add `clear()` method to FCurveKeyframePoints https://developer.blender.org/rB4812ed
* Python: add opcodes for safe py-drivers https://developer.blender.org/rB00c7e7

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