Major Changes in 50.alpha
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* Enhancements:
- Improved thumbnail loading through new custom widget (Khalid Abu Shawarib)
- Significantly increase code coverage by adding tests for thumbnail sizes, batch renaming, redoing, bookmarks, and many more (Khalid Abu Shawarib)
- Rework batch rename mechanism and avoid freezes on cyclic collisions (Khalid Abu Shawarib)
- Strip whitespaces in editable file names (Abhinandan Thakur, Peter Eisenmann)
- Strip newlines from file name in file chooser (M B SURYANARAYANAN, Khalid Abu Shawarib)
- Reduce memory usage by trimming on window/tab closure (tytan652, Peter Eisenmann)
- Use shorter operation status message in sidebar (Corey Berla, Peter Eisenmann)
- Support multiple file type search filters (Khalid Abu Shawarib)
- Use highlight for batch rename replacement text (Abhinandan Thakur)
- Use AdwAlertDialog for file operation dialogs (Peter Eisenmann)
- Add settings menu item to context menu for trash and recent (Khalid Abu Shawarib)
- Focus password entry on extraction (Peter Eisenmann)
- Make file type filter buttons more accessible (Khalid Abu Shawarib)
- Add Fedora CI (Khalid Abu Shawarib)
- Add alternative bindings for copy and paste (Tomasz Hołubowicz)
- Remove drag icon from column chooser (Khalid Abu Shawarib)
- Pass activation_token to previewer (Tau Gärtli)

* Bugfixes:
- Fix potential outdated view item usage (Peter Eisenmann)

* Cleanups:
- Read image properties without GdkPixbuf (Peter Eisenmann)
- Drop superfluous thumbnail prioritizing (Khalid Abu Shawarib)
- Detect videos via xdg/shared-mime-info over intern list (Peter Eisenmann)
- Drop usages of goto (Peter Eisenmann)
- Replace some deprecated GTK APIs (Peter Eisenmann)
- Use media queries for high contrast style (Peter Eisenmann)
- Avoid redundant folder name in completion toast (Shone Binu)
- Cleanup bookmark list API to use GFile (Peter Eisenmann)
- Make NautilusHashQueue more useful with destroy funcs (Khalid Abu Shawarib)
- Continued search-related rework (Peter Eisenmann)
- Cleanup controls in metainfo (Maximiliano)
- NautilusFile/Directory constructor-related cleanups (Peter Eisenmann)
- Remove NautilusWindowSlot usage from NautilusApplication (Peter Eisenmann)
- Drop deprecated FileOperations interface (Peter Eisenmann)
- Deprecate packagekit build option (Peter Eisenmann)

* Translation updates (GNOME Translation Project contributors)