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## Changelog
Total: 239 commits, of which 61 are fixes and 73 cleanup.

### Animation
* [Animation: add function for deduplicating FCurve keys](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/85ed2e8c) – Sybren A. Stüvel
* [Animation: Add in Parent space alignment option to the Transform Orientation gizmo](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/5c4b0c98) – Nate Rupsis
* [Animation: make properties from motion path library overrideable](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/60ced528) – Christoph Lendenfeld

### Assets
* [Assets: Do Not Show Blank Read-Only Metadata](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/199c7da0) – Harley Acheson

### Attributes
* [Attributes: Integrate implicit sharing with the attribute API](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/e45ed693) – Hans Goudey

### Curves
* [Curves: Optimize edit mode selection draw extraction](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/70d85453) – Hans Goudey

### Cycles
* [Cycles: re-enable AMD GPU binaries on Windows](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/d5757a0a) – Brecht Van Lommel
* [Cycles: add hardware raytracing support to oneAPI device](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/3f8c9951) – Nikita Sirgienko

### GPencil
* [GPencil: Several Weight Paint additions](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/397a14de) – Sietse Brouwer

### Geometry Nodes
* [Geometry Nodes: new Index of Nearest node](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/15f9e42c) – illua1
* [Geometry Nodes: Slightly optimize mesh to curve node](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/98ccee78) – Hans Goudey
* [Geometry Nodes: support outputting field without computing full node](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/ca32fb60) – Jacques Lucke

### Mesh
* [Mesh: Cache loose vertices](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/8e967cfe) – Hans Goudey
* [Mesh: Move edges to a generic attribute](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/2a4323c2) – Hans Goudey

### macOS
* [macOS: Add open files to system recent files](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/f04a7a07) – Ankit Meel

### Text object
* [Text object: operators to move cursor to the top or bottom](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/6d2351d2) – Damien Picard

### UI
* [UI: Make it possible to add shortcuts to UI operators.](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/35a8341d) – Richard Antalik
* [UI: Change the name of Invert nodes to Invert Color](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/9344deed) – zanqdo
* [UI: OS File Operations Within File Browser](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/694f792e) – Harley Acheson

### VFONT
* [VFONT: Text Selection Operator](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/68f8253c) – Harley Acheson

### Viewport Compositor
* [Realtime Compositor: Implement ID Mask node](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/3d611799) – Omar Emara

### VSE
* [VSE: Add sound strip retiming support](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/b21695a5) – Richard Antalik

### WindowManager
* [WindowManager: Context Creation](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/b94a0ec8) – Jeroen Bakker