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Changelog
Total: 248 commits, of which 62 are fixes and 72 cleanup.

Animation
* Remove collection hotkeys from pose mode https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/adef3a45
* change Slider Popup menu hotkeys https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/e2a75814

Curves
* Avoid inverting selection when deleting elements https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/865f14c6
* Optmize and simplify point and curve deletion https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/f63cfd8e
* Improve IndexMask usage in curves sculpt brushes https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/1b19f629

Cycles
* light and shadow linking https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/ba3f26fa
* Path Guiding: Adding guiding on glossy surfaces via RIS https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/8d174585

Externals
* Externals: update fmtlib to latest version (10.0.0) https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/122c48ae

GPencil 3.0
* GPencil 3.0: Initial commit https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/3aaacd6e

Geometry Nodes
* expose simulation bake path in UI https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/dc33a8e9
* store path to simulation bake in modifier https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/edf4cb8b

I18n

Mesh
* Mesh: Avoid position copying in corrective smooth modifier https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/72309be3
* Mesh: Reimplement and unify topology maps https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/4d841e1b

Overlay-Next
* Overlay-Next: Initial implementation https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/9ae2dd57

Python API
* PyAPI: add bpy.app.help_text() for accessing output from `–help` https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/3a5ba15c
* PyAPI: add bpy.context.property, for property under the mouse cursor https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/6ba03467

Refactor Render Result to allow implicit buffer sharing
* Refactor Render Result to allow implicit buffer sharing https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/a5677d22

Transform
* Transform: remove precision modification upon starting navigation https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/fc854fc2

UI
* Temporarily Disable Apple-specific Text Modifier Support https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/07dbdd01
* Updated Windows File Registration Correction https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/f37f6093
* Text cursor behavior for Apple Devices https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/0e841924
* Updated Windows File Registration https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/9cf77efa
* Fix and improve a few messages https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/9f0807ac
* set the waiting cursor from pack/unpack operators https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/7fbac7e2

USD Curve Export
* USD Curve Export: Pinned CatmullRom Curve https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/a127707c

UV
* UV: Complete options for rotation during uv packing https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/f96e108b
* UV: Fix (unreported) uv packing with pinned islands and original bounding box https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/71d89dfa

Windows
* Windows: Do not auto-focus from our console https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/1b7c6cf1