v0.23.0

Designs saved in 0.23.0 use format 37 and don't open in 0.22.1 or older.

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Highlights

• Section views are solid again: bodies behind the cut no longer show their colour through the cap, and hovering the cut no longer lights up what it hides (#6728, #6722).
• Cosmetic threads are drawn on internal and external threads (#2868).
• Text parameters: sketch text built from a parameter follows every change (#6364).
• Web app opens a design from a link, with an embed mode for sharing (#6253).
• Sheet metal: Perforate, and edge flanges with material outside and tangent bend positions (#4404, #6060).
• Pick your graphics card in Preferences (#6010).

Modelling and sketching

• The Timeline shows only the active component's features (#3543).
• Mesh export has a quality choice, so small round features get enough sides (#4773).
• A sketch point on the origin can be dragged; finished sketches on a face stay visible with a dark halo (#4837, #4956).
• Pattern edits preview while dragging; zero-length distance dimensions keep a sketch fully constrained (#4426, #4397).
• Split-face names stay short however many times a face is split (#6045).

Interface

• New themes: Okibi (dark) and Akari (light) (#5731).
• One set of X, Y and Z colours for the origin axes, view triad and Move gizmo (#4430).
• The AI assistant picks the provider first, then its model (#5565).
• New translations: Norwegian Bokmål, plus large Brazilian Portuguese, Ukrainian and Danish updates (#4556, #5776, #4136, #4051, #4223).

Fixes and speed

• Ambient occlusion no longer shows ghost copies of the model (#4251).
• Measure reports no volume or mass for open surface bodies (#4268).
• Faster joint solving and component listing on large assemblies (#6393, #6395).

Compatibility

0.23.0 writes design file format 37 (0.22.1 wrote 36). It opens every earlier design, but 0.22.1 and earlier refuse a design saved by 0.23.0.

Thanks

Thank you to everyone who contributed: @A-AL-ANAZI, @amolinari-autotex, @BrunIF, @CamWight, @CarlosKeese, @cfaulkingham, @dudedagger42, @HiroKenEz, @JesperWe, @JoKa3D, @JShanklin, @kaievns, @khanahmad4527, @luiscamaral, @Marentius, @momysnow, @Nathan-Dane, @neosandeep24, @NOWN-DEV, @raykholo, @rbousigues88, @s17sh70x2jfl031ag, @shop-3d, @tahazarif10, @thodoristsagko and @vdirienzo.