Version bump to 2.80 final release

Referenced by issue #95254, Regression: Outliner 'Scenes' mode does not select objects when clicking on collection ('Select objects' operator also does not work)
Referenced by issue #75219, GPencil – Move to New Layer Does Not Move
Referenced by issue #73057, Cloth Simulation Rig behaves like jelly/jello in 2.8 and behaves gently in 2.79
Referenced by issue #71687, blender 2.80 and 2.81 crashes when i tried to copy a surf sub modifier.
Referenced by issue #71669, Mesh gets transparency in a specific vertex group after trying to render in EEVEE
Referenced by issue #71657, Subdiv of certain model causes huge memory consumption and crash (regression bug)
Referenced by issue #71660, Blender 2.80 (sub 75) crashes on Ubuntu when loading Spring 01_015_A file
Referenced by issue #71602, Library Override: Overriding material causes BKE_id_is_in_global_main assert on file load
Referenced by issue #71456, Entire system locks up when interacting with  Properties Material Context
Referenced by issue #71300, VSE: Crash in IMB_colormanagement_transform_threaded when rendering this clip
Referenced by issue #71267, spinning on Linus crashes
Referenced by issue #71163, Metaball particle sources jumping around
Referenced by issue #71080, Crash on adding material - Linux
Referenced by issue #71090, Collections cannot be linked (do not appear in file browser)
Referenced by issue #71024, Blender Crash on Starup. Ubuntu 19.04
Referenced by issue #70752, Crash when undoing a loop cut.
Referenced by issue #70754, Windows 10 Precision Touchpad multi-touch inputs not detected by Blender
Referenced by issue #70738, Vertex color interpolation issue
Referenced by issue #70699, Select Edge Ring not found in search menu
Referenced by issue #70627, Crash when using Mesh>Normals>Point To Target
Referenced by issue #70560, Large cones are created with double vertices (even though the radius is zero)
Referenced by issue #70561, black render of mirrored object - cycles
Referenced by issue #70500, Blender VSE with a Scene Strip and Compositor Crash
Referenced by issue #70461, Plane plus Modifier "skin" CRASH
Referenced by issue #70279, crash, Helicopter, blender 2.74 demo file
Referenced by issue #70227, VSE Low Playback Rate: Alpha Over will give a lower fps than Cross
Referenced by issue #70228, VSE Low Playback Rate: Resolution mismatch will give a lower fps
Referenced by issue #70229,  VSE Low Playback Rate: Show Cache On will cause a lower fps
Referenced by issue #70213,  EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION/found bundled python crash
Referenced by issue #69894, blender 2.8 crashing with segmentation fault
Referenced by issue #69790, Blender 2.80 always crash when choosing material
Referenced by issue #69735, Blender 2.8 won't start with ATI Radeon HD 4850
Referenced by issue #69709, Face Orientation not visible when material's viewport display uses alpha
Referenced by issue #69677, Blender 2.8 crash on startup | Ubuntu 16.04 | Nvidia Quadro FX 580
Referenced by issue #69561, Undo moving of armature in object mode undo half of different action from edit mode
Referenced by issue #69486, Reloading 'text' file in 'Scripting' marks the file as modified
Referenced by issue #69473, Curve widget crash when resetting curve with bad clipping values
Referenced by issue #69439, Default cube has different vertex order than a New Cube (results in unexpected "transfer shape key")
Referenced by issue #69266, [ Material > Viewport Display > Color ] no longer saved with the scene
Referenced by issue #69270, Tools Solidify
Referenced by issue #69259, Brick texture in Eeeve - crash when changing parameters
Referenced by issue #69262, VIEWPORT RENDER IMAGE dont render quad view images
Referenced by issue #69233, Bone selection problem (only root bone can be selected, multiple clicks then cycle throught the hierarchy)
Referenced by issue #69226, Unable to view texture when UV editing
Referenced by issue #69232, Unable to copy any values in the GUI.
Referenced by issue #69205, Crash on Context.Material->New
Referenced by issue #69188, Crash while using several rigid bodies and some force fields.
Referenced by issue #69183, Blender goes into "Not Responding" state
Referenced by issue #69129, Blender can't find GPU
Referenced by issue #69060, File Output Node does not work with Time Remapping
Referenced by issue #69067, Locking a transformation in the properties panel doesn't stop it from changing
Referenced by issue #69048, Lock Camera to View is not working correctly when camera is child of an object
Referenced by issue #69008, Cannot load in Image Textures
Referenced by issue #68956, Transparency visual artifacts on overlapping objects
Referenced by issue #68958, wireframe shadows
Referenced by issue #68952, Blender crashes when trying to add loopcut with ctrl-r
Referenced by issue #68864, [CYCLES] Shadow catcher is not transparent in the viewport
Referenced by issue #68855, Texture on active object is not visible in solid view with sculpt mode activated
Referenced by issue #68843, Invalid (pink) shader when using wireframe node [ Eevee ]
Referenced by issue #68835, Auto Perspective does not work with Align View to Active
Referenced by issue #68837, "GPU failed to find function math_max" - related to eevee and material's blend_method setting
Referenced by issue #68806, Inconsistent presentations of texts
Referenced by issue #68810, (Undocumented operator)
Referenced by issue #68815, Words exist on the UI but not on the PO file, unable to be made translated
Referenced by issue #68789, 'Zoom d:d' strange string
Referenced by issue #68778, Crash when moving vertex
Referenced by issue #68767, Crash on loading File
Referenced by issue #68753, Singularity and Plurality
Referenced by issue #68739, GPU CYCLES RENDERING PROBLEM
Referenced by issue #68668, Weight Tools: Limit Total does not seem to set the requested limit
Referenced by issue #68638, Cycles fails to render Motion Tracking scene on OpenCL GPU Compute
Referenced by issue #68527, Bones are not selected when clicked on (except the first one)
Referenced by issue #68499, weight paint gradient is broken when mirror modifier is enabled
Referenced by issue #68367, Translated text NOT display
Referenced by issue #68344, 3D cursor sets to "-nan(ind)m" or "nanm" on click
Referenced by issue #68314, Grid mesh with x/y_subdivisions = 1762, 896 creates broken UV map
Referenced by issue #68240, Blender 2.8 crashes
Referenced by issue #68237, Cycles. "/" button of the numeric keypad do not hide objects from view.
Referenced by issue #68161, Order of words
Referenced by issue #68164, Clicking on Shader tab causes crash
Referenced by issue #68166, shadow lights
Referenced by issue #68154, Fluid simulation viscosity presets do not update immediately after clicking presets.
Referenced by issue #68102, Problem with Panel class in layout and with translation texts
Referenced by issue #68089, Crash when Selecting Shader tab
Referenced by issue #68048, Lack of function in using depsgraph_update_post
Referenced by issue #68042, Bone Selection Problem (on NVIDIA Quadro)
Referenced by issue #68018, Being able to set the same location of proxies to source is not allowed in the filesystem
Referenced by issue #67966, UV editor doesn't select exact face
Referenced by issue #67739, Freezed when resize new added metaball
Referenced by issue #67720, Smoke Cache deleted when hiding the smoke domain
Referenced by issue #67535, VSE crash and failure to update
Referenced by issue #62466, Driver from world custom prop to material not refreshing realtime
Referenced by issue blender/blender-addons#68964, MeasureIt Area computation

source/blender/blenkernel/BKE_blender_version.h

@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
 /** Can be left blank, otherwise a,b,c... etc with no quotes. */
 #define BLENDER_VERSION_CHAR
 /** alpha/beta/rc/release, docs use this. */
-#define BLENDER_VERSION_CYCLE rc
+#define BLENDER_VERSION_CYCLE release
 
 /** Defined in from blender.c */
 extern char versionstr[];

source/blender/windowmanager/intern/wm_operators.c

@@ -1515,7 +1515,7 @@ static void wm_block_splash_add_labels(uiBlock *block, int x, int y)
     version_suffix = " Beta";
   }
   else if (STREQ(STRINGIFY(BLENDER_VERSION_CYCLE), "rc")) {
-    version_suffix = " Release Candidate 3";
+    version_suffix = " Release Candidate";
     show_build_info = false;
   }
   else if (STREQ(STRINGIFY(BLENDER_VERSION_CYCLE), "release")) {