some things i like but didnt see advertised:

Texture filtering removed from render settings and put into the node for image_map with 3 settings.

Heirarchy looks like it belongs in the program now.
collapsed hierarchy stays collapsed the next time you open it.

the scripts pull down is very cool. just put your scripts into the subdirectories and they load into the menu, add sub directories for sub menus.

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