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## Changelog
Total: 188 commits, of which 56 are fixes and 46 cleanup.
Cycles
* Cycles: Remove MultiGGX code, replace with albedo scaling
GPv3
* GPv3: Add initial edit mode overlay support
* GPv3: “Add Suzanne“ option in Add operator
* GPv3: Add operator to create new grease pencil object
Geometry Nodes
* Add Corners of Edge node
* Improve delete geometry performance with vertex groups
* Rewrite mesh delete geometry node
* Parallelelize a delete geometry selection conversion
* Copy no loose vert/edge status in delete geometry node
I18N
* I18N: Updated UI translations from SVN trunk (r6562).
IO
* IO: remove OBJ and PLY Python add-ons (#104503, #104504)
Mesh
* Mesh: Forward compatibility with generic bevel weight in 4.0
Modeling
* Modeling: Improve Suzanne’s UV map
Node Editor
* Node Editor: Don’t change size of resize area for frame nodes with zoom
Outliner
* Outliner: Port curve elements to new tree-element code design
* Outliner: Port mesh elements to new tree-element code design
Paint
* Paint: Add loop select for faces
Particles
* Particles: remove Halo, Line and Path render options
PyAPI
* PyAPI: rename filename to filepath for RNA API functions
Readfile
* Readfile: Refactor several parts of the process
Refactor
* Refactor: Bidirectionality on Graph Editor Sliders
* Refactor: Remove pre-2.8 function to reevaluate a single object
Transform
* Transform: new feature to edit the ’’Snap Base’
UI
* UI: File Save Incremental Operator
* UI: Allow Opacity for Theme Outline Colors
* UI: add text editor zoom in/out to view menu
* UI: Incorrect add-ons button label in preferences
UV
* UV: Add optimal uv packings using precomputed layouts
* UV: Update ui for the uv pack islands operator
VSE
* VSE: Freeze frame feature for retiming tool
Vulkan