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# BLENDER TODAY #221

## Changelog
### Cycles
* [Cycles: adjust resolution divider to achieve a more usable viewport](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/0963ee55) – Alaska

### EEVEE Next
* [EEVEE Next: IrradianceCache surfels debug display](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/8bb411ad) – Miguel Pozo
* [EEVEE-Next: Spherical Harmonics Library](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/65b2aed1) – Clément Foucault
* [EEVEE-Next: Deferred Pipeline](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/335688dd) – Clément Foucault

### File Browser
* [File Browser: Make full file name label draggable](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/c3dfe1e2) – Julian Eisel

### Image
* [Image: Add OIIO support APIs](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/8929ed75) – Jesse Yurkovich

### Measure Tool
* [Measure Tool: reduce snap overhead](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/f6c70755) – Germano Cavalcante

### Mesh
* [Mesh: Parallelize extraction of UV maps](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/63a44e29) – Hans Goudey
* [Mesh: Remove unnecessary mesh position copying](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/3048d9e9) – Tuan N
* [Mesh: Optimize BMesh to Mesh conversion with UV maps](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/0fe0db63) – Hans Goudey

### Nodes
* [Nodes: SDF Volume nodes milestone 1](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/4b30b5c5) – Erik Abrahamsson

### PLY
* [PLY: optimize new exporter (2x faster)](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/48496f14) – Aras Pranckevicius
* [PLY: Improve robustness and performance of the new PLY importer](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/6c6edaf5) – Aras Pranckevicius

### Python API
* [Python API: implement ViewLayer.aovs.remove](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/08fd5747) – Nischay-Raj

### Refactor
* [Refactor: U.dpi_fac – U.scale_factor](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/f78f05c7) – Harley Acheson

### Subdivision
* [Subdivision: remove info message that GPU subdivision being used](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/f234d2d4) – Brecht Van Lommel

### UI
* [UI: align tab labels towards panels](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/4bb90060) – guishe
* [UI: Increase the size of the “Open Recent” list](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/19ca2e90) – Harley Acheson
* [UI: Add scroll to sidebar tabs](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/c0e757a7) – guishe

### VSE
* [VSE: Update text of text strip after each typed character](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/1b2f58ad) – Richard Antalik