Update changelog for vvvv gamma 7.1 release

Added changelog for vvvv gamma 7.1 and updated details for vvvv gamma 7.0.

Author: azeno

changelog/7.x.md

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+## vvvv gamma 7.1
+TBA
+
+### vvvv itself - HDE & Runtime
+
+### New
+- Plugin support see blog post
+- Adds new command to reorder grouped pins based on their connected position - [forum](https://forum.vvvv.org/t/sort-input-pins/24228/12)
+
+#### Changes
+- Only run empty entry point from root documents. This was especially concerning when project uses IStartup with non-lazy service registration. In that case depending on how often that startup was referenced those services started multiple times - for each empty entry point. By running only those from root documents - that are those which have been opened explicitly either via -o, open, drag drop or F1 we should be on the safe side.
+- Allows to reference AspNetCore from within patch
+- Removes the option to run vvvv from within installer as it doesn't work reliably
+- Pack command (Ctrl+G) remaps control points which refer to the same input. For example when we have a pin "Context" appearing multiple times in the patch, and we group downstream connected elements, we will now only see one new "Context" pin and not multiple.
+- System rewrites package versions in referenced C# projects to those used by the system. This should help with method not found / type load exceptions (due to the project being built against wrong VL.Core version) or (even worse) wrong VL.Core versions in export.
+- Use vvvv.exe folder for package-cache instead of temp folder.
+
+#### Fixes
+- Fixes crash when referencing VL.Devices.SpaceMouse
+- Fixes encoding of mutability flag in pre-compiled packages - [forum](https://forum.vvvv.org/t/ensurevalue-model-and-for-each-loops/24594/13)
+- Fixes type ref parser not accepting hyphens in an identifier - [forum](https://forum.vvvv.org/t/new-type-editor-does-not-let-resolve-type-ambiguity/24711)
+- Double click in type editor selects word - allows for quick selection of type argument
+- Fixes `--export-package-sources` not working in `vvvvc` - was throwing invalid argument exception
+- Fixes patches getting corrupt after undoing a pack command (Ctrl + G)
+- Fixes generated target code when connecting byte value directly to output of Cache region - [forum](https://forum.vvvv.org/t/the-byte-type-throws-an-exception-on-the-caches-bcp/24736)
+- Fixes operations feeling sticky when moving around - [forum](https://forum.vvvv.org/t/patch-context-menu-interaction-ui-refresh-issues/24741)
+- Fixes runtime continuously trying to start entry point even though we know the constructor crashes
+- Fixes package compilation falling apart when having a package having reference to obsolete VL.Video.MediaFoundation
+- Package compiler will no longer try to compile already failed packages again - [forum](https://forum.vvvv.org/t/pasted-nodes-are-not-selected/22865/13)
+- Fixes generated target code for unconnected/faulty foreach loop
+- Some optimizations to Solution Explorer - [forum](https://forum.vvvv.org/t/solution-explorer-keeps-updating-if-docked-and-collapsed/24845)
+- Fixes `ImportType` not working for types from referenced assemblies
+- Fixes complete crash if importing extension method using a type parameter for first input - [forum](https://forum.vvvv.org/t/access-violation-with-generic-extensions-and-importasis/24861)
+- Fixes regions not updating their size after renaming a node - [forum](https://forum.vvvv.org/t/rename-process-inside-region/24849)
+- Fixes stack overflow in adaptive node lookup at runtime - [forum](https://forum.vvvv.org/t/creating-a-range-uint32-hangs-and-crashes-vvvv/24810)
+- Fixes timings on node no longer shown after moving it around in patch structure
+
+#### Regressions
+- Fixes links between mutable values not drawn in dash style
+- Various newly introduced glitches with text fields
+- Fixes pin editors in inspector no longer working on Channel inputs (was working in 6.7)
+
+### Standard Libraries
+
+#### New
+- Adds `PatchPath` node similar to existing `ApplicationPath` - see it's summary for details
+- Adds optional pin to render windows which allows to define custom interaction area when extending into title bar - [forum](https://forum.vvvv.org/t/extending-into-title-bar-blocks-imgui-interaction/24756/2)
+
+#### Fixes
+- Fixes memory leak in `RefCount` operator. Was causing video playback to stutter at some point (depending on how many videos where played at the same time, for a single video it properly took something like 14h).
+- Fixes `InsertSlice` not handling case index == count correctly.
+- [Video] Increases sleep time in case no frame was pushed - seems one ms was not enough, the used method returned immediately ending up in a busy loop - [forum](https://forum.vvvv.org/t/videoin-source-conversion-less-work-more-cpu/24764/6)
+
+#### Stride
+- Stride 4.2.1.2487, Windows Forms based render window, HDR support, ARM64 support
+- Adds experimental ModelReader for to load models directly from disk without going through asset database
+- Adds `Reload` pin to `TextureReader` -- [forum](https://forum.vvvv.org/t/add-the-ability-to-explicitly-and-blockingly-load-reload-textures-in-stride/24743/3)
+- Fixes network paths ("\\SHARE\foo\bar") not working for various File* nodes
+- Fixes couple of help patches on AMD GPUs
+- Render nodes will no longer store full screen bounds, only windowed bounds. This prevents windows from opening in a different state after patch restart.
+- `TextureReader (Async)` improvements
+  - Limits the amount of concurrent load tasks to ensure CPU has still breathing room for rendering on main thread
+  - Allows for cancellation of load operation - helps tremendously when switching input often
+  - Makes use of async FileStream options -> I/O threads for disk read
+  - When disposing a load task we will no longer block. In combination with cancellation and load limiting this should not lead to OOM scenarios.
+- Adds `View Format` pin to `RenderTexture` to be able to make use of typeless textures
+- Adds device reference count to perfmeter as a quick way to debug resource leaks
+- Fixes TextureFX nodes not cleaning up their effect instance (thanks to new refcnt)
+- Fixes a memory leak in `LightStreak`
+- `SkiaTexture` improvements
+  - Internally collects and renders all textures in one batch. Leads to far better performance than previous node.
+  - Changes default of texture format to BGRA_Srgb which finally brings correct rendering results (using Typeless as the resource format). 
+
+#### Redis
+- Updates StackExchange.Redis to 2.8.31
+- When setting init mode of a binding to Redis, we want the key to get created if it doesn't exist yet. Otherwise take the value from redis.
+- Returned `RedisClient` object refers to the node of the same name and is always assigned. Should make working with it much easier - no more null checks and re-passing it around.
+- Writes key into error message when serialization fails
+
+#### TPL
+- Propagate completion from source to connected target block
+- Ensures state gets disposed on provided scheduler (if any)
+
+#### Skia
+- Transport monitor scaling in `CallerInfo` - opens door to better support multi monitor DPI awareness
+- Adds help text to TextureToSkImage with hint about tooltip not updating
+- Adds logging about device creation
+
 ## vvvv gamma 7.0
 released on 25 08 2025  
 [Installer win-x64](https://teamcity.vvvv.org/guestAuth/app/rest/builds/id:39385/artifacts/content/vvvv_gamma_7.0-win-x64_setup.exe) | [Offline Installer win-x64](https://teamcity.vvvv.org/guestAuth/app/rest/builds/id:39385/artifacts/content/vvvv_gamma_7.0-win-x64_setup_offline.exe)  
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 - Adds new pin `When` to `Binding` node allowing to control the condition under which the value is written to Redis 
 
 
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