Fixed an issue where invalid agent blendshapes (e.g. using a channel name which does not exist) caused all blendshapes to be skipped. This also affected other nodes such as the SOP Character Import LOP.

Fixed sampling parms for the Sky light on Karma Physical Sky.

Fixed video export from mplay to create missing intermediate directories.

XPU: fixed an issue with MtlxSmoothStep with inverted min/max inputs

Fixed a bug in licensing that caused the diagnostic to report an IP lookup failure in some cases when it should not have.

Fixed a viewer crash when attempting to display a guide for an unknown light type.

Fixed a bug where Du/Dv VEX calls may sometimes return garbage when the input parameter is a uniform value.

Added environment variable (HOUDINI_NO_EXTERNAL_ICON_CACHE) that can be used to disable external icon caches to aid in debugging cache problems.

Fixed a bug in the PDG Deadline plugin where it did not apply Deadline path mapping to the task executable path.

Fixed a bug where Du/Dv VEX calls may sometimes return garbage when the input parameter is a uniform value.

Fixed a bug where Du/Dv VEX calls may sometimes return garbage when the input parameter is a uniform value.

Fixed a bug preventing 'SOP Modify' from showing up under the 'More Editor Nodes' sub-menu of the Scene Graph Tree's context menu.

Fixed a crash that could occur while opening a hip file if a context option change callback changes another context option's value.

Fixed a crash that could occur while opening a hip file if a context option change callback changes another context option's value.

Upgraded Houdini and HQueue's OpenSSL library to 1.1.1w.

Fixed a bug that caused several Python-based utility applications, such as py23convert and renderstatsreport, to fail on Linux and macOS.

Fixed a potential crash in the Guide Process SOP.

Improved stability of ray-intersection with uniform volumes when the same mesh was also rendered as a hard surface. In some unusual cases, this could cause bad shadowing on the uniform volume.

The USD Render ROP now properly populates the Render Settings drop down menu when a LOP node is connected to its input. Previously the LOP Path parameter would be used to generate the list of render settings prims, which is incorrect because a connected input supercedes that parameter.

Changed options for exporting layers from Unreal to Houdini to allow more control over which landscape layers are sent.

'Add to Asset Gallery' on Component Output LOP no longer adds an additonal entry for the main asset, when variant layers are used.

Fixed excessive memory usage with volumes containing multiple fields when rendering offline.

Fix a MaterialX shader generation crash in the viewer when the surface shader node isn't recognized.

In Feather Deform & Feather Procedural:

Added transfer of velocity (taking into account both linear velocity v and angular velocity w) from the deforming surface.

    Added a 'Preserve Names of Shape Primitives' toggle to the ROP FBX node to    remove the type and object count normally added as a suffix to the    name of shape primitives on export. This includes polylines as well as Bezier    or NURBS curves and surfaces.