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Highlights
* Free-function API https://github.com/CadQuery/cadquery/pull/1731, https://github.com/CadQuery/cadquery/pull/1469, https://github.com/CadQuery/cadquery/pull/1622,
https://github.com/CadQuery/cadquery/pull/1672, https://github.com/CadQuery/cadquery/pull/1692, https://github.com/CadQuery/cadquery/pull/1700
* filter/map/apply/sort/[]/invoke https://github.com/CadQuery/cadquery/pull/1514
* cq.vis.show improvements https://github.com/CadQuery/cadquery/pull/1726
Other changes
* Getting set up for the new 2.5 dev cycle https://github.com/CadQuery/cadquery/pull/1496
* Fix documentation hole, to many parameter https://github.com/CadQuery/cadquery/pull/1492
* Add Brep to supported importShape functions https://github.com/CadQuery/cadquery/pull/1467
* Fixed spelling error of 'visualziation' to 'visualization' https://github.com/CadQuery/cadquery/pull/1510
* Fix Python version info in pip installation instructions https://github.com/CadQuery/cadquery/pull/1498
* Updated setup.py for CQ black fork https://github.com/CadQuery/cadquery/pull/1513
* Fixed gltf export instructions per 1508 https://github.com/CadQuery/cadquery/pull/1523
* Fix VTK assembly render apply gp_Intrinsic_ZXY rotation https://github.com/CadQuery/cadquery/pull/1540
* Add cubic and quadratic Bézier curves to Workplane and Sketch https://github.com/CadQuery/cadquery/pull/1529
* Move DEFAULT_COLOR to vis https://github.com/CadQuery/cadquery/pull/1548
* radiusArc: due to float looseness the length computation can be sligh… https://github.com/CadQuery/cadquery/pull/1528
* Add support for 2D and 3D Wire fillet https://github.com/CadQuery/cadquery/pull/1549
* Fix union with None https://github.com/CadQuery/cadquery/pull/1560
* Describing the units of the result https://github.com/CadQuery/cadquery/pull/1570
* Read global element variable at creation time of the promise,… https://github.com/CadQuery/cadquery/pull/1566
* Fix units in toJSON https://github.com/CadQuery/cadquery/pull/1587
* Add shape and workplane support to the Workplane.eachpoint() function. Issue 1395 https://github.com/CadQuery/cadquery/pull/1578
* Fix crash on invalid faces https://github.com/CadQuery/cadquery/pull/1541
* Fixed font-related test error on some platforms https://github.com/CadQuery/cadquery/pull/1577
* Add support for closed path fillet to Wire.fillet() https://github.com/CadQuery/cadquery/pull/1573
* Return False on Vector comparison with non-Vector https://github.com/CadQuery/cadquery/pull/1610
* Get rid of nptyping https://github.com/CadQuery/cadquery/pull/1617
* Call SetLocation to set top Assembly Location https://github.com/CadQuery/cadquery/pull/1623
* sketch offset docs update https://github.com/CadQuery/cadquery/pull/1631
* fix: Transform order in subassembly https://github.com/CadQuery/cadquery/pull/1629
* Change Python REPL prompt from "$" to ">>>" https://github.com/CadQuery/cadquery/pull/1647
* Sketch and Workplane improvements https://github.com/CadQuery/cadquery/pull/1633
* Update Wire fillet docstring https://github.com/CadQuery/cadquery/pull/1630
* Make CadQuery examples browsable in PartCAD https://github.com/CadQuery/cadquery/pull/1669
* docs: Update install docs to Miniforge https://github.com/CadQuery/cadquery/pull/1682
* fix: Deduplicate objects with same color on step export https://github.com/CadQuery/cadquery/pull/1690
* Updated version specification for nlopt to try to resolve issues https://github.com/CadQuery/cadquery/pull/1718
* doc/quickstart.rst: Emphasis the right lines https://github.com/CadQuery/cadquery/pull/1724
* Set version in docs automatically from metadata https://github.com/CadQuery/cadquery/pull/1713
* Fix workplane cylinder center when generated using a custom direction https://github.com/CadQuery/cadquery/pull/1593
* Header cleanup https://github.com/CadQuery/cadquery/pull/1732
* Add TypeVar to deprecate_kwarg_name to preserve type information https://github.com/CadQuery/cadquery/pull/1733
* Docs cleanup https://github.com/CadQuery/cadquery/pull/1736