Bforartists 4 version 4.0.1 is a Shader Nodes kit milestone and a Major Point release.

This versions comes with a new Presentation addon, a Shader Node kit for the Asset Browser and procedural materials, and general maintenance with all the latest features, stability, and updates from Blender with all our additional love from us.

This version has an additional 150 tasks and bug fixes with everything from Blender 4.0.0, 4.0.1 and 4.1.0 development.

The binary downloads are attached. Per usual they can also be found in the download section of the official website: 

Downloads:
https://www.bforartists.de/download/

Release Notes: 
https://www.bforartists.de/release-notes/

Blender Release notes now merged and updated into Bforartists:
https://www.blender.org/download/releases/

Splashscreen is kindly provided by Khamurai - won in the Splashscreen Comeptition hosted in the Bforartists Discord server.

Thanks again for all your art, work and support! And a very special thank you to the developers maintaining this.

Draise, Reiner, Iyad, Blenux, Sean and the rest of the team

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Geometry Nodes - Tools mode - new Mesh>Read>Face Set Node/Set Face Set Node #3950 
Geometry Nodes - Tools Mode - New node Input>Scene>3D Cursor Node #3949
Sequencer - Add Menu - Search added, make it discoverable #394
Geometry Nodes - Tools Mode - new Geometry Read/Write Slection nodes #3945
3D View - Weight Paint - Add invert and smooth keymap operators like in the Sculpt Mode#3739
Fcurve Editor - New Select Handle operators#3820 
Default User Preferences - Editing - Duplicate Linked for nodegroups turned on#3782
3D Viewport - Edit Mode - Edit Mesh Overlay - Show Edges Deprecated for Edge Mode Selection Theme.#3933
Asset Library - New Shader nodegroup kit#3944
Addon - Add the "BFA Presentation Slider" addon to repository#3943
Debug Build - full stops in tooltip warning#3941 
Properties editor - Material tab - Settings panel with eevee - align prop left#3940 
Properties Editor, Render tab, Eevee renderer Raytracing panel, denoising subpanel - align props left#3937
Edit Mode with mesh object - select menu - new by attribute operator needs icon #3935
Double tooltip title at add and remove buttons of the presets dialogs #3934
3D View - Armature - Pose and Edit mode - Armature>Bone Collection menu - Make icons consistent #3811
Node Editors - Box Select in Keymap is disabled in the default user preferences #3932
Node Editors - Add Menu Search now hidden, revert and expose operator to GUI #3778
UI/UX: Auto keying button is jumpy #3931
Text editor - edit menu - select text sub menu - remove double entry #3930
Python Console - Expose consistent text operators like in the Script Editor #3823 
Brush images set for painting and sculpting #2646 
GooEngine - Enable GP fixed perspective stroke scaling. #3688 
File Browser - Add Thumbnail Button Sizes to keep consisten with Asset Browser #3925
Properties Editor - Eevee next - go through the panels and align left #3902 
Eevee next - move transparency from Render/Film to Output/Output panel #3904
Grease Pencil Object Data Properties - Layers Panel - separate tooltips for Isolate Layer #3910 
Fix node editor background theming #3912
Default Theme - Add header background transparency (for legibility) #3834 
Bforartists default asset library does not show up in the "All" category #3897
Sculpt mode - double entry Auto-Masking #3901
Sequencer - Add help icon to notice on conditional operators #3926 
Sequencer - Sidebar - Show Retiming Keys Property float left / Or Hide (redundant) #3881 
3D View - Header - Transform has legacy operators #3874
VSE with color strip - align multiply alpha prop left #3914
Add new nodes to the sidebar, add icons #3913
Update themes #3909
Resolve icon conflict with renaming the light probes icons for eevee next #3920 
Fix tooltip content in NOD_static_types.h to contain the adds a xxx type of node #3908
Properties editor - material tab - line art panel - align intersection priority left, hide slider #3915
Eevee next - material tab - settings panel - surface subpanel - align and indent props left #3916
Toolbar + Toolshelf - replace Autosmooth dropdown by Set Smooth by Angle operator #3917
Texture paint mode - add paint slot - align props in the dialog left #3918
The VIEW3D_MT_edit_curves riddle #3919
Remove Dynamic Topology toggle from Sculpt menu #3911
Merge regression - Eeevee next is missing the options in the Output properties panel #3906
Idea - display the renderer in output, view layer, scene and world settings too #3903
Asset Browser - Display Mode - Thumbnails - Add button row for quick thumbnail sizes #3780
Default Preference - Regression - Enable "Auto Depth" by default #3814
Fcurve Editor - Key - Submenu parity with Blender for better organization and maintenance #3771
3D View - Armature - Edit mode - wrong icons/label on "layer" and "group" #3813
Fcurve Editor - Keys - New Time Offset slider #3821
3D View - Edit mode - Vertex Crease added to context menu #3816
Fcurve Editor - New Push/Pull key slider operator #3818
Inconsistencies in space_view3d.py #3899
Geometry nodes sidebar - Group Tab - Interface panel - Horizontal row for add buttons #3892
Geometry nodes sidebar - Group Tab - Interface panel - same tooltip for the add buttons #3891
Texture paint - header - improve stencil mask panel #3898
Missing Tooltip Title in (not only) Add menu #3893
Geometry nodes sidebar - Group Tab - Interface panel - align the closed by default prop left #3890
BFA: use a map to map keying set IDs to icons #3895
Text editor, View, Zoom In, Zoom out, separate tooltips, add a tooltip that makes sense #3607
3D View - Armature - Pose/Edit mode - Move to Collection submenu iconography and order for consistency #3878
Properties Editor - Modifiers - Unassigned needs better iconography and name #3836
3D View - Armature - Bone Collection - New "Solo Visibility" and "Show All" operators. #3835
Preference s - Viewport - Indend Playback Samples checkbox and slider #3828
Node Editors - Group Tab - Interface panel - Add add buttons and/or column labels for column read and top access #3733
Sequencer - Retiming tool is changed to be act-once operators and removed from toolshelf... #3840
Sequencer - Strip - Retiming - Expose selected retiming key operators to tabbed toolshelf #3880
Sequencer - Regression - Strip - Retiming toggle inconsistent with toolshelf. #3879
3D View - Armature - Pose/Edit Mode - Bone Collection submenu #3877
3D View - Armature Object - Pose and Edit Mode - Move to Collections needs updating #3873
Asset Browser - Asset menu - add icon to create pose asset #3871
Viewport Overlays - Pose Mode - make panel wider #3868
Viewport Overlays - Hair Object - Sculpt Mode - make Curve Sculpt Overlays panel wider #3867
Texture paint mode - Texture Paint Overlays - make panel wider #3866
Vertex Paint Mode - make the weight paint overlays panel wider #3865
Regression - overlay panel in sculpt mode with mesh #3864
Edit mode - Mesh Edit Overlays - fix Retopology prop #3861
Properties Editor - object Properties - Cycles - light linking and shadow linking - wrong tooltip for data browser #3860
Properties Editor - object Properties - Cycles - light linking and shadow linking, add icon to select menu #3859
3D View - Object - Remove icons from sub-folders #3817
3D View- Sculpt Mode - Warning: property "not found in item 'OperatorProperties'" #3824
Splashscreen - Update buttons and links (to not go to Blender) #3831
Geometry Nodes - Group - Properties - Modifier and Tool better tooltips #3839
Recreate Blender themes #3849
Theming problem file browser - adress field shows Blender theming #3851
Splash - Load Blender 4.0 settings #3850
Preferences - Interface - Missing Search "Sort by Most Recent" toggle #3830
Asset Browser + Property Editor - Modifiers - Add - Change "Unassigned" to "Uncatalogued" #3837
Preferences - Editing - Objects - Copy on Duplicate panel is broken #3822
Bforartists Window Title - Missing save status in the label #3829
Preferences - local variabl 'col' referenced before assignment #3832
Geometry Nodes - Group - Properties - Float the Modifier and Tool props left. #3838
Principled bsdf layout differences to Blender #3809
3D View - Sculpt Mode - Dyntopo missing Sample Detail button for hidden hotkey operator #3717
3d View - Wrong tooltip for Mirror Local Y #3807
Geometry Nodes - New Rotation Nodes #3719
Properties Editor - Add icons to Bone Groups panel buttons #3731
Default User Preferences - Turn on "Auto Close Pairs on Selected Text" #3781
Texture Node Editor - Add icons to Add header menu #3763
Geometry Nodes - Add - Mesh - Read - new "Is Edge Smooth" node #3766
Properties Editor - Modifiers - "Move to nodes" needs iconography #3767
Properties Editor - Modifiers - Save as Shape Key needs new icon #3768
Fast switch element in the animation editors, rename dopesheet to dope sheet #3806
Graph Editor - view menu - type error #3805
Graph Editor - View menu - context is not defined error #3804
Sequencer - Default Hotkeys - LMB Click to select + click off to unselect #3715
Properties Editor - Pysics - Simulation Nodes - Float "Cache" checkbox left #3803
Sequencer - New Audio Modifier "Equalizer" #3734
Preferences - System - For All Users checkbox float left #3776
Asset Shelf - Display Settings - Float name checkbox left #3779
Armature - Pose Mode - Select Group and Layer is now "Collection" and "Color" and should be updated. #3789
Dopesheet - Grease Pencil mode - Sidebar - Layers - "Disallow Locked Materials Editing" toggle for consistency #3792
Dope Sheet - Update tooltip for Frame selected and Frame selected channels in view and channel menu #3797
Dopesheet - Key - Sample Keyframes is deprecated #3801
Fcurve Editor - Move Channel Settings operators to Key menu #3802
Animation editors channel menus clean up - channel settings belongs into the channel settings sub menu #3799
3D View - Armature - Pose Context Menu - Hide operators needs consistency #3800
3D View - Armature - Pose mode - Context menu console error #3785
3D View - Armature - Pose Mode - broken poll #3784
Animation editors - unify location of the discontinuity euler filter menu item #3798
Weight paint , tool shelf - missing srna 'object.vertex_group_fix' #3795
Fix and update the Important Hotkeys addon #3757
Fcurve Editor - Bake Curve now Keys to Samples changes #3770
Fcurve Editor - Key - Sliders - new Scale to Average operator #3769
Properties Editor - Add Modifier assets should have consistent iconography with Geometry Nodes assets #3762
Geometry Nodes - Add Menu - Marked assets could have a "nodegroup" icon on all listings #3627
Geometry Nodes - Assets loading warning has been removed. We should keep it for UX. #3631
Compositor - Add menu re-organized and needs sub-panels #3735
Geometry Nodes - Remove Group Input and Output from Add tab in Node shelf #3720
Hotkeys - Grease Pencil - Weight Paint Mode - Add V for weight strength slider #3745
Hotkey weight slider update tooltip to correct hotkey #3758
3D View - Weight Paint - Headers - Make slider order consistent between object and greasepencil headers #3751
3D View - Default Theme - Asset Shelf theme should be consistent with Bforartists theme. #3714
Window - Split icons in the Window context menu are inversed #3710
3D View - Hair Curves Object - Object - Convert - "to Particles" needs iconography and potentially documentation #3753
3D View - Hair Curves - Set Parent to "Object (Attach Curves to Surface)" is missing from header #3754
Geometry Nodes - Improve alphabatized order of nodes in Node Shelf #3723
3D View - Add new tab and panels for the Tools from the Toolbar #3525
Hotkey - Grease Pencil - Weight Paint Mode - Add CTRL+LMB and CTRL+RMB for select and sample for consistency #3746
Geometry Nodes - Add - Points - New Points to Curves node #3732
Theme - Outliner results and selected colour needs more "contrast" #3612
Fcurve Editor - Key - Key Slide Operators - New "Shear" operator #3737
3D View - Refine the Object Types Visibility Popup #3716
User Preferences - Fresnel Edit Mode toggle float checkbox left #3729
User Preferences - Auto-Offset toggle #3730
Default Startup - Light Colors overlay should be turned on #3722
File - Window - Move Status Bar toggle to top #3738
Properties editor - Rendertab - Color Management panel - Display subpanel - align prop left #3726