Fixed incorrect normals produced by the MaterialX Bump node.

Fixed an issue in the HeightField Erode COP where the node would fail to recook when several hydro erosion rate parameters were adjusted.

XPU: Fixed a bug in Optix device where SSS probe rays failed to intersect other objects that belong to the same SSS traceset if their material did not have SSS enabled (e.g. shadowing internal geometry).

Backporting a workaround for a UI bug in Paint Instances LOP parm dialog where resizing the prototype panel was slow. Now the update happens on MouseRelease.

Fixed a bug in the viewport mesh update that could cause a mesh to disappear in LOPs.

Fixed occasional crash quitting gplay by hotkey.

Fixed occasional crash quitting gplay by hotkey.

The Bake UsdSkel Skinning LOP also now disables instancing for children of the SkelRoot prims (previously this only occurred for SkelRoots themselves) to allow skinning to be baked for any instances underneath.

Adds hou.Drawable2D.imageLayer() for retrieving the currently displayed image layer.

Fixed error that can occur when installing the plugin via the Houdini Engine Plugin Installer shelf tool. Also added missing 3ds Max versions (2026, 2027) to the shelf tool installer.

Fixed error that can occur when installing the plugin via the Houdini Engine Plugin Installer shelf tool. Also added missing 3ds Max versions (2026, 2027) to the shelf tool installer.

Fixed bug where the Soft Falloff visualizer would not be on by default after loading a hip file from inside Houdini.

Fixed bug where the Soft Falloff visualizer would not be on by default after loading a hip file from inside Houdini.

Fixed a bug where there would be a large performance impact in the viewport when displaying many individual text markers

Added groups to the apex geo::Transform callback.

Fixed unwanted parameters in the channel list when creating a channel reference by calling hou.Parm.set(hou.Parm).

Remove innocuous error "Invalid instance property name: rendervisibility" when applying Render Visibility property on instances.

Fix a potential crash in Curve Animate when converting curves with keys.

XPU: gsplats SPH data now correctly motion-blurred

Certain operations on geometry channels (cut & paste, snapshots, and scaling) are now up to 7.8x faster.

If the "new segment type" preference is an empty / whitespace-only expresssion, it is treated as automatic.

Fixed issue with HoudiniField assets not properly updating in the viewport

Fix a regression where the bonecapture weights did not get properly updated on the autorig builder SOP when using a rig template with a non sidefx mapping.

Fixed a bug that could cause UV Layout to hang processing invalid potential configurations.

Fix an attribute error raised in advanced mode in Dynamic Motion.