Blender 3.0 - version bump -> release

Referenced by issue #98047, Some Metadata lost by passing into File Output Node
Referenced by issue #96718, Regression: Photo "blowout" when rendering and denoising in 3.1.0
Referenced by issue #96556, Problem with parent_vertices attribute
Referenced by issue #96032, Wrongly applying constraint make crashing Blender
Referenced by issue #95832, Linked libraries+Cloth objects+LineArt -> Blender crashes
Referenced by issue #95409, Crash when hitting Texture Paint > Side bar > Tools > Options > External > Apply Camera Image & selecting an image.
Referenced by issue #95165, Regression: Custom Normals tools dont update immediately (when started with Auto Smooth OFF)
Referenced by issue #95155, Can't run Blender
Referenced by issue #95095, Blender crashes when using image sequences for displacement after playing 250 frames
Referenced by issue #95021, Blender 3.0 Crash during edit mode with a mesh
Referenced by issue #94946, Random Crash while Texture Baking
Referenced by issue #94756, Blender crashes when clicking render.
Referenced by issue #94686, Non selected verteces that are on the opposite side/through the mesh are being moved.
Referenced by issue #94668, Don't open
Referenced by issue #94630, crash when assign a preview to a specific asset in the asset browser
Referenced by issue #94624, Object As Font not working
Referenced by issue #94615, Blender 3.0 consistently crashes when RSS nears 5GiB on Linux (easy to trigger with video playback)
Referenced by issue #94576, Long bake computing time material to vertex color for selected objects
Referenced by issue #94532, Blender 3.0 very slow with rx 5700XT
Referenced by issue #94451, Large (135Mb) file without apparent data
Referenced by issue #94347, Crash when adding new scene in video editor and pressing home
Referenced by issue #94314, OpenEXR can't be used to save results during the render process
Referenced by issue #94304, Remesh + symmetry model bug? : Blender 3.0.0
Referenced by issue #94264, Blender Crashing While Appending Animation Action
Referenced by issue #94217, When baking to two images, CUDA crashes on the second image.
Referenced by issue #94213, Old blend file corrupts to crash blender, I guess
Referenced by issue #94197, Boolean Apply Clearing custom data layers (bevel weight Weight / Vgroup Data)
Referenced by issue #94107, Blender crash when tracking motion
Referenced by issue #94112, Blender crashes often in GPU mode
Referenced by issue #93926, "Hops" and "Boxcutter" modifiers work incorrectly in version 3.0
Referenced by issue #93896, Vertex group (memory access?) change after applying modifier
Referenced by issue #93866, Blender crashes when bevel edge(CTRL + B, not modifier) + Shade Smooth then press CTRL + Z two more times
Referenced by issue #93847, Sometime cyclesx crashed
Referenced by issue #93730, Crashing after render
Referenced by issue #93684, context.engine return CYCLES whereas particle panel enumeration does not have it
Referenced by issue #93680, Blender 3.0 is crashing when creating hair particle system (Windows, Intel)
Referenced by issue #93641, blender3.0.0 f1cca30557 crashing when render is stopped before finishing
Referenced by issue #93619, Cycles Sampling Preferences in old demo files from Blender download page in newest Blender 3.0 are different
Referenced by issue #93594, Regression: Header transform options hide on modal operation
Referenced by issue #93565, Spot light no longer projecting an image texture in Blender 3
Referenced by issue #93388, Asset browser: dropping object on grid in orthogonal view misses the floor plane
Referenced by issue #93130, View/Frame Selected (Vertex Paint mode) not working
Referenced by issue #88968, Failed to create CUDA context unknown error
Referenced by issue #72279, Material Library VX causes permanent freeze with EEVEE rendering
Referenced by issue #59374, The UI overlays are flickering

source/blender/blenkernel/BKE_blender_version.h

@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ extern "C" {
 /* Blender patch version for bugfix releases. */
 #define BLENDER_VERSION_PATCH 0
 /** Blender release cycle stage: alpha/beta/rc/release. */
-#define BLENDER_VERSION_CYCLE rc
+#define BLENDER_VERSION_CYCLE release
 
 /* Blender file format version. */
 #define BLENDER_FILE_VERSION BLENDER_VERSION