Blender Git Loki

Fix T49764: Audio strips crackle when animating the volume

- Implemented linear interpolation for volume changes in the software
mixer.
- Using this in the software device.

Fix T49789: Compositor mix node interpolation bug

Fix T49797: Exception from scene update handler might leak external engine descriptors

This was causing memory leaks in Cycles.

Some more detailed information in the comment in the code.

Seems to be safe and nice enough for 2.78a.

Fix T49793 : Fix enabling SSE2 globally for msvc.

When feeding msvc both /arch:sse2 and /arch:sse it's not smart enough to pick the best option, just goes with the last option

Cycles: use near clipping distance in panorama camera.

Reviewed By: sergey, brecht, dfelinto

Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1952

Blender 2.78a release: Use proper "a' on the splash

Blender 2.78a release: Update addons submodule hash

Fix T49775: Appending data with internal dependency cycles prevents correct clearing of linked data-blocks.

This is not a simple fix, but imho still needs to be backported to 2.78a...

[windows] Create A Blender Desktop Shortcut in the msi installer , fixes T49522

Fix T49722: Appending Bug (Groups).

One day we'll have to reconsider why some many 'real' ID usages are not
refcounting... :(

To be backported to 2.78a.

Fix T49738: Hair Add Brush doesn't work

the issue was caused by wrong default value for brush particle count
which was clamped on display from 0 to 1. This is technically a regression
but how to port this to 2.78a?

Fix T49746: crash loading user preferences with missing operators.

Fix assert in the wrong place, should be moved earlier to do anything.

Reviewed By: brecht

Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2304

Fix missing outliner redraw when adding VSE strip

Needed for outliner "Sequence" display mode.

Fix T49571: 2d stabilize keys not visible in the Graph Editor and Dope Sheet

Fix T49601: Material menu length problem.

Regression from rB69b66d549bcc8, was supposed to be non-functionnal
change, so not sure why search menu was reduced here? For now, restore
to 2.77 width.

Fix T49646: Switching from large to small image can get stuck zoom at max zoom distance.

Allow for zooming in at max zoom distance.

Reviewed By: Severin

Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2291

Fix T49534: 2.78 Wrong texture scaling in material viewport

Seems to be a bug in original implementation of a830280: code was always
using tangent space instead of UV map because it had the same name. Now
prefer UVMap over tangent because this is how Cycles works. At least it's
closer to.

Not sure it the save+reload issue is still relevant after this fix, that
needs to be double-checked.

Thanks @dfelinto for looking into the report and simplifying the case.

Should be included into 2.78a.

Fix OLD pre-git links in the API, add missing factory-startup option to blender executions.

Reviewers: mont29

Reviewed By: mont29

Tags: #bf_blender, #python, #infrastructure:_websites

Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2290

Fix T49635: column_flow Layout - last column is too small.

Column flow layout was abuse ui_item_fit in a weird way, which was
broken for last column items.

Now rather use own code, which basically spread available width as
equally as possible between all columns.