Fixed an issue with HUD sliders in the APEX Animate state getting stuck when dragging quickly past the bounds of the slider.

Improved performance for indexed primvars on the PointInstancer Lop. Also added support for using 'type:string' or 'type:uv' to target indexed primvars, similar to SOP Import Lop, etc.

Fixed a few issues with the Joint Capture Paint state.

• Fix a potential crash when the number of unlocked capture regionsexceeded 50.
• Fix an issue with the smooth brush getting stuck on when releasingthe shift key before finishing the stroke.
• Fix a potential python error when using the brush immediately uponentering the state.
• Fix an issue with the brush being made visible unexpectedly whenresuming the state while in the joint select modes.

Fixed a bug where background images sources from COP nodes would display incorrectly in the viewport

Add frustum culling support to COP RasterizeGSplats.

Fixed COP RasterizeGSplats producing non-deterministic Color output.

Fixed a bug on the twist autorig component where the driven field wasnt working.

Fixed the animation editor not respecting the "On Mouse Up" update mode.

Fixed a case where bookmarks on the Animation Editor's timeline could be dragged without holding control.

Fixed an issue in the Curve Animate state with HUD sliders creating multiple undos for a single slider change, and fixed another issue with the settings HUD not minimizing correctly.

Updated the ZibraVDBForHoudini plugin to v1.4.0.0. This changes the file extension from ".zibravdb" to ".cvdb"/".cvdbe" /".cvdbf", depending on the user's license. Old .zibravdb files can still be opened normally.

• Only export and enable KHR_materials_emissive_strength when the anon-default emissive strength value is being used
• Fixed some error and warning reporting issues in the glTF 2.0 nodes

Fixed GSplats appearing distorted/stretched after resizing the viewport.

Backported a fix for a bug in Stage Manager LOP where changing the variant of a prim would expand the reference file path in the parms.

Fixed a case where geometry could get duplicated in the APEX animate state in LOPs.

Remove alpha_threshold param and layerPickPosition method from Drawable2D. Add is_overlay param to Drawable2D. When true, the layer retains the size and aspect ratio of the node layer.

husk should no longer warn about being unable to stitch husk:null_raster when auto-stitching some render product types for some render delegates.

Fixed subdivision surfaces being skipped in viewport ray tracing.

Fixed a bug where polygon surface primitives would not draw in the viewport if a hair material was applied to them at the Object level

Fix regression where right-menu hotkeys in the Rig Tree pane didn't work

imaketx now supports writing 16-bit float data to .tx files.

Change the color parm's "Color Picker Tool" option to use the new color editor's improved color picker.

Fixed an issue in the color editor where editing colors with it would sometimes cause renders to stop picking up further color changes.

Fixed an issue with the TOP status bar drop down showing an incorrect work item when selecting items in a dynamic node, and fixed a potential crash when the status bar updates while the current scene file is being changed.