Cumulative Hotfix for Colored Collection Rows Release

This is a hotfix and commulative stability release with 37 bug fixes, features and updates - including a few critical showstopper bugs.

This is part of an exciting release with all the latest from Blender 4.3 and 4.4 to the date - with a chunk of 139 pieces of love from us this cycle

New

• Horizontal walk navigation lock
• Smarter Smart delete in Mesh Edit mode (removes isolated geometry now)

Thanks again for all your artwork, feedback and love! And a very special thanks to the community and developers for working this project.

What's new with the 4.3 series!

Additionally includes:

• New Colored Collection Rows highlights
• New Grease Pencil Nodegroups in the Default Library
• New Silhouette toggle for the 3D View with the Power User Tools
• New Asset Shelf category defaults and tag filtering, with additional thumbnail quick size buttons
• Refined Grease Pencil 3 interface and UX
• General maintenance, details, tooltips and refinement to everything new coming in from Blender

Included new features from Blender are:

• New editing of Text Strips in the Preview of the Sequencer editor
• New Geometry Nodes: Find in String, Collection and Object Input
• New Geometry Nodes "For Each" zone, Grease Pencil nodes, and much more
• New method to swap and resize areas
• New Metal BSDF
• Videos can now render in 10bit
• New Animation Slots to assign multiple objects to the same Action Clip
• And much more
• And much more.

• Bforartists-4.3.2-Linux.tar.xz
• Bforartists-4.3.2-Mac-Intel.dmg
• Bforartists-4.3.2-Mac-Silicon.dmg
• Bforartists-4.3.2-universal.dmg
• Bforartists-4.3.2-Windows.zip
• Bforartists-4.3.2-x86_64.AppImage
• bforartists_4.3.2.deb
• Install_Bforartists4_432.exe
• releasenote_bforartists4_432.txt

3D View

• Interactive Light Track should be in Object Context Menu #4213
• Panel Right Click menu - Expose the "reset zoom" operator #4855
• Set Parent Menu context missing labels and icons #4897
• Rename 'Frame Selected' Menu operator to 'Frame Last Stroke' to be more explicit #4893
• Grease Pencil - Draw mode - Vertex Color mode - Wrong sized swap and pin operatorsion header #4866
• Header overlays - Toggle ground grid only toggles ortho grid #4854
• Drawing primitives from the toolbar fails #4850

Sequencer

• strip tag update #4904
• Text strips can now edit, update operators and hotkeys #4889
• Add "Remove Gaps (All)" to sidebar #4884

Hotkeys

• Sequencer - Text Object - Double click to edit + ESC to exit #4890
• Sequencer Preview - Add hotkeys to use the Edit text #4891

Geometry Nodes

• Utilities - Text - New Find in String node #4892
• New Collection and Object input nodes #4886

Topbar

• Creating torus doesn't use Cursor position when triggered from another editor #4841
• Toolbar primitive images are greyed out and don't work #4844

Other

• Hotkey overriding modal key in loop cut operation #4840
• Update Windows Github actions script to be relative #4848
• Error in space_node.py #4876
• macOS build missing icon #4874
• Bforartists About shows wrong version number #4863
• Animation Tab does not Obey Tool Shelf Tabs Toggle when Armature is in scene #4856
• Launching Bforartists from the provided command scripts are only for Blender #4842
• File Browser - Folder icons are offset and too transparent #4882
• User Preferences - Turn off Load UI as a default #4902
• Preferences - Turn on Developer Extras and Python Tooltips per a default for discoverability #4903
• Dopesheet - Action Editor mode - Improve Tooltip about slots #4769
• Smart Delete - Add feature to know when to delete single vertices or edges #4900
• Official Release - Bforartists 4.3.1 #4846
• Addon - Default Library - Register default asset shelf categories to use the Default Library categories #4582
• Outliner - Exclude checkbox tooltip could be more explicit #4843
• Node Groups - Sidebar - Boolean default float left #4894
• Node Editors - Nodegroups now have two header icons #4883
• Grease Pencil - Edit Mode - New Set Start Point #4885
• Navigation - Add horizontally locked game like navigation as an opt-in #4849
• Cycles - Point Light has missing shadow properties #4864
• Timeline Editor - Autokey on frame has wrong icon #4865

Splashscreen is kindly provided by Ethan Avila, an honorable runner up up of the last Splashscreen competition hosted in the Discord server.

Draise, Reiner, Blenux (Juso), Eyad, Znight (Trung Pham), Quackers, Sean and all you arty supporters