Fixed a bug where Karma Fog Box LOP produced undefined results in render when 'Noise' toggle is enabled.

Fixed a bug in Camera Edit LOP where assigning a lens shader using "Lens Shader VOP" parameter (under Karma tab) had no effect. Note that the fix only applies to newly created Camera Edit LOPs.

Fixed potential hanging in both CPU and XPU when rendering volumes, particularly when a ray originating from far far away intersects the volume.

Fixed an issue where the pixel inspector wouldn't read values in some areas when using a render region with Live Render.

Fixed a performance issue when Karma dealt with a very large number of lights.

Updates to Karma camera tint will now properly trigger a sync with the renderer.

Fixed erroneously generated outlines in cases where:

• Outlines are enabled but crease-based detection is disabled.
• Outlines are disabled but contour-based detection is enabled.

Fixed a potential crash with nested instancing of volumes when an instancer has zero instances.

Fixed potential crashes when unpacking packed USD primitives for meshes with invalid subdivision crease attributes.

Fixed load warnings for the Shot Output HDA.

Improved PDG Async Importer performance.

Unreal 5.8 compatability fixes.

Changes to RV_Instance initialization, to allow Extra Extensions to be added at later point in startup. If new extensions are requested after the instance is created, but before the viewport is initialized, the instance will be re-initialized to include all extensions.

Fixed the TOP status bar work item selection menu so it can only be scrolled when the menu is open. This prevents accidental changes to the selected work item in the menu when using the mouse wheel to zoom the network editor, which could trigger a recook of displayed nodes that use work item attributes.

Added a console variable Houdini.GarbageCollection that can be used to enable/disable the plugin's explicit calls to Unreal's Garbage Collector.

Fixed an issue where custom instancer values would not be set correctly when using packed primitives.

Fixed baked actors not being recentered correctly.

Reduced schedular timing, improving performance.

XPU: improved error reporting when CUDA NVML library fails to load

Fixed a bug in outlines where depth-based detection may erroneously draw in lines over objects with outlines disabled that's in close proximity to objects with outlines enabled. Also addresses the issue where objects with outlines disabled always used random ID for contour detection, which prevented users from removing unwanted outlines on objects with outlines disabled using user-defined IDs.

XPU: fixed a gsplats SPH transform rendering bug

Add missing documentation for KARMA_ALBEDO_AOV_DIFFUSE environment variable.

Fixed Poly Frame tangent frame style of the input geometry in COP Preview Material SOP, to be linked to the MikkT Tangent Space toggle. This fixes render mismatch between VK and Karma rendering of normal maps.