Houdini Main Changelogs

20.5.845

Fixed a bug where modifying materials on geometry lights could either crash or fail to update.

yesterday
21.0.597

Fixed a bug where modifying materials on geometry lights could either crash or fail to update.

yesterday
21.0.597

Added support for parsing output files from logs when using a ROP Fetch TOP with batch work items.

yesterday
21.0.597

Added 'networkeditor' kwarg to Gear/Preset menus.

yesterday
21.0.597

Recipes: Ensures that preset menus built with recipeutils.buildPresetMenu() always display the revert label in revert mode as the first entry when no other entries are present. It also fixes a bug in revert mode, where the last invoked recipe name in parentheses would be replaced by the submenu name.

yesterday
21.0.597

Recipes: When multiple network editors are opened, the placement prompt is initiated from the same network editor that was used to invoke the recipe. Similarly, decoration recipes will find the most suitable network editor for prompting when invoked from a standalone parameter pane or a parameter pane contained inside a network editor.

yesterday
21.0.596

Added geo::PrimUV<T> apex nodes to interpolate attributes at a specific parametric UV positions.

Added apex nodes for getting and setting Vector[234]Array and Matrix[34]Array attributes.

Wed. January 14, 2026
21.0.596

Fixed a bug where primvars may fail to write to primvar AOV with 'noholdouts' prefix in offline renders.

Wed. January 14, 2026
21.0.596

Fixed a bug where changing material assignment on volumes wouldn't take effect until render restart.

Wed. January 14, 2026
21.0.595

Fixed a Python exception when cooking an FFMPEG Encode Video TOP with a custom input file list.

Tue. January 13, 2026
20.5.843

Fixed an issue with the Additional Arguments parameter on the FFMPEG Encode Video TOP being disabled by the enabled/disable toggle associated with the Color Transfer parameter.

Tue. January 13, 2026
21.0.595

Fixed an issue with the Additional Arguments parameter on the FFMPEG Encode Video TOP being disabled by the enabled/disable toggle associated with the Color Transfer parameter.

Tue. January 13, 2026
21.0.594

XPU: fixing an NVidia 590 driver bug relating to the karma ramp node

Tue. January 13, 2026
21.0.595

Surface Deform SOP now has a Blur parameter which is off by default. Instances of this node created between 21.0.591 and 21.0.594 which have non-zero blur iterations will need to have the Blur parameter toggled on to preserve the same behaviour.

Tue. January 13, 2026
21.0.595

Fixed a bug where cryptomatte manifest isn't merged across tiles and sidecar file is missing when autotile feature is enabled.

Tue. January 13, 2026
20.5.843

Added an option on the For Each LOP to merge the load masks from the iteration input to create the load masks for the output stage.

Tue. January 13, 2026
21.0.595

Added an option on the For Each LOP to merge the load masks from the iteration input to create the load masks for the output stage.

Tue. January 13, 2026
21.0.594

Fixed a bug that caused a faulty command line to be produced when passing in a logfile path to the HAPI_StartThrift* methods on POSIX operating systems.

Mon. January 12, 2026
20.5.842

Fixed a bug where animating USD visibility or editing properties would cause "Render Visibility" object property to be lost until render restart.

Mon. January 12, 2026
21.0.594

Prefix-Sum and related COPs such as Statistics should be fast again. There was a significant performance regression in 21.0.507 when we inadvertently lost the ability of the OpenCL COP to perform per-row or per-column operations.

Mon. January 12, 2026
21.0.594

Fixed a bug where animating USD visibility or editing properties would cause "Render Visibility" object property to be lost until render restart.

Mon. January 12, 2026
21.0.594

Updated the USD library that ships with Houdini to address problems with Alembic import of vector attributes, hydra access to the data sharing id, and prevent an unnecessary warning when hiding point instancers.

Mon. January 12, 2026
20.5.839

Fixed Pinned curve state not sticking when only point positions change in the LOPs Houdini delegate.

Fri. January 9, 2026
20.5.839

Updated the ZibraVDBForHoudini plugin to v1.2.3.0. This includes bug fixes and improved VDB volume metadata serialization. Summary of the changes available here: https://github.com/ZibraAI/ZibraVDBForHoudini/releases

Fri. January 9, 2026
21.0.591

Surface Deform SOP now has blur parameters added, to smooth the deformation without loss of detail from the input geometry. Treat Deformer as Subdivision Surface is now off by default to avoid slow cooking with high resolution deformer meshes. Fixed a bug where the Group selector script gave an error.

Fri. January 9, 2026