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Remove all versioning code

Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into geometry-nodes

Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into geometry-nodes-distribute-points

Merge branch 'master' into temp-geometry-nodes-mesh-modifier

Geometry Nodes: fix recursive instance transforms

Previously, the transformation of recursive instances did not work as
on would expect. Second-level instances would detach from first-level
instances when the object was moved.

Fix missing custom-property escaping for whole-character keying set

Custom properties with characters that needed escaping
had f-curves created with invalid paths.

Fix missing string escaping in RNA_path_append

This was escaping the '[' character, which isn't needed for quoted text.

Tests: fix 'ctest -j' running multiple tests at once

bl_blendfile_io & bl_blendfile_liblink shared a filename,
which could make these tests fail.

Cleanup: remove unused function bc_find_bonename_in_path

BLI_string: return NULL from BLI_str_quoted_substrN on failure

This was returning an empty allocated string, however almost
all callers checked if the return value was NULL before freeing,
making for misunderstandings on the intended use of this function.

BCAnimationSampler::initialize_curves for example detected the
f-curves animation type to 'bone' based on a non-NULL return value
which never failed.

Also fixes two leaks where the the result of BLI_str_quoted_substrN
wasn't freed.

Fix BLI_str_quoted_substrN use with escaped strings

BLI_str_quoted_substrN didn't unescape the resulting string,
yet all callers were using this with animation paths which are
created using BLI_str_escape().

- Fix BLI_str_quoted_substrN use with escaped strings by calling
BLI_str_unescape().

Note that it's possible we want an a version of this function that
keeps escape characters. This could be added if it's required.

- Fix end quote detection using BLI_str_escape_find_quote
checking for `"` isn't reliable since an even number of back-slashes
before a quote means it's not escaped.

- normalize qt before doing math on them
- ensure strip alignment panel script loaded

- clean up formatting and obselete comments

- minor update for recent commits on master by others

- bugfix: fixed the scaling problem. Was due to not normalizing quaternion after reading from fcurves

- due to last commit, no longer need C-side python UI for alignment properties

- general bugfix that should be committed separately: context.selected_nla_strips would have the wrong pointerRNA associated with it. This leads to unresponsive UI when strip values changed through python-made UI.

- typo fix: rna_nla: remove parm
- blend xform allocation separated from adding to list to make duplication simpler

- add proper support for duplicating nla strips with preblend transforms

- renamed NlaStripPreBlendTransform to NlaBlendTransform, preblend to blend, etc