Fixed the Karma Cryptomatte LOP creating new Products.

Render Gallery snapshots would sometimes fail, or even cause Houdini to crash if the stage didn't have a render settings prim.

Fix an issue where the "Reset All" button on the APEX Scene Animate node would not reset the selection sets if the Animate state was active.

Fixed crash that could occur opening images with the OIIO plugin.

Fix an issue where the "Reset Animation" and "Reset Custom" buttons on the APEX Scene Animate node were always resetting the selection sets, and added an item to the tree when "Reset Custom" is pressed to allow choosing to reset the selection sets.

The karma:light:shader parameter was changed from a string to an asset to allow the asset resolver to kick in for evaluation.

The karma:light:shader parameter was changed from a string to an asset to allow the asset resolver to kick in for evaluation.

Fix a bug with hkey that incorrectly reported expired dates if the date was past 2037.

Fix a bug with hkey that incorrectly reported expired dates if the date was past 2037.

Fixes a bug in the background plate LOP's metallic/reflection parameters not being connected to the background shader.

Fixes a bug in the RBD Bullet Solver with packed geometry input collision with primitive name attribute.

Fixes a bug in the RBD Material Fracture SOP's concrete material when enabling edge detail and adding input points with primitives to the 4th input.

Fixed a bug where enabling tint or chromatic aberrations on lens shader may erroneously influence utility AOVs.

Fixed the Karma Cryptomatte LOP's ability to add itself to existing render products and settings.

In the Guide Interpolation Mesh SOP, only compute biharmonic weights when there are points that need computing, i.e. points that don't correspond to a guide. These can often be optimized out by remeshing, which previously resulted in an error.

Fixed visibility of geomsubset-assigned materials when looking at a Component Material LOP. Also made some internal optimizations and fixes to that node, as well as the Component Geometry Variants LOP, to resolve unnecessary re-cooking of inputs.

Fixed a rare bug in the Unpack USD SOP which could cause packed USD prims to be unpacked at a time code of 0, ignoring animation.

Various APEX documentation updates for numeric nodes.

Add many numerical utility APEX callbacks such as transform::Prescale, Prerotate, Premultiply, scale, rotate, mulitply and more generic vector operations.

Update the help documents for HOUDINI_SPLASH_FILE to indicate that its not available for tainted sessions.

Improvements for the Edit Context Options dialog:

• "Automatic" context options are hidden by default
• User created context options can be explicitly marked as "hidden"

A settings menu provides toggle to turn on the display of each of these types of initially hidden context options.

Added Array Lerp, GetComponent/SetComponent and nLerp APEX callbacks.

Fixed a bug where wires were not drawn properly in SHOPs.

Fix a bug in Guide Process SOP and Guide Mask SOP where masks weren't always visualized correctly.

Added the ability to flag a context option as "hidden", which causes it to not appear in the edit context options dialog (unless the new toggle to show hidden options is enabled).