Fixes a bug in the RBD Car Transform which would lead to wheel inversions with fractured tires.

Fixed PCG inputs not showing up in the graph.

Added a new refreshStartupPathCacheDirectory method that can be used to refresh a directory in the startup path cache if the filesystem is modified during startup.

Added "line_interp" parameter to the uvslider control graph in order to return the parameteric value in any of the interpretations supported by the apex spline nodes.

Further tweak to hcustom behavior on Windows so that it works building USD plugins with the -g option.

Fix broken fake caustic for SSS and volume indirect bounce on karma CPU.

Fixes a bug in the RBD Car Transform SOP when overriding the steering. Allows the wheel geometry to turn with animated steering when "Re-Align Wheels" is off. Added a Simulation Start Frame parameter to set a reference frame when overriding the steering to allow updating the goal_*_axis constraint attributes during a simulation.

Added some exception handling to the APEX Animate viewer state.

• Updated the Houdini Engine Session Sync panel UI.

Fixed a bug where displayed control count for an Animation Catalog capture could be different before vs after saving it.

Updated the Shot Output HDA to better handle time sample filtering. Now when you publish data that has time samples, all of the time samples will be written to the layers on disk, not just the rendered frame range.

Fixed a bug causing the Menu Bar of the Shot Builder Project Panel to disappear.

Fixed a crash caused by reloading the Shot Builder Project Panel when there is no project.json file present.

Fix some options in the Texture tab of the Display Option not staying up to date, and fix an issue where the Clear and Reload cache options would not trigger an update to the cache when using the Vulkan viewport

Fix some options in the Texture tab of the Display Option not staying up to date, and fix an issue where the Clear and Reload cache options would not trigger an update to the cache

Fix testgeometry Electra 2.0 Motion Mixer setup by removing C_spineEnd_ctrl from the MixerAnim.skel.

• Updated the mapping for the ikfk blend autorig component to be derived fromthe guidesource, so its not longer needed to add it manually.
• Added the ankle and ball tag to the feet of electra-2.0.
• Updated the defaults for the reverse foot autorig component to work withelectra-2.0 by default.

Fix crash caused by missing attributes for GSplat

ONNX Inference now works with models that have the model parameters split out in a separate external file.

Backported r516635 Fixed bugs in Layout LOP's prototype gallery system that caused editing bruses to change the asset ID's of existing instances in the scene. Also made some performance improvements for these brushes

ML Regression Proximity was re-saved to avoid an assertion

Python Handles – Improve 2D Handle drawing and picking

• Add hou.ViewerHandleContext.setDrawOrder() for defining the draw order ofunderlying drawables, including picking behavior.
• Add hou.ViewerHandleContext.draw() for rendering the drawables ofthe underlying python handle.

Added USD_HoudiniPathMapArResolver sample. This is a USD default asset resolver which leverages $HOUDINI_PATHMAP in USD filename lookups, similar to the support provided elsewhere in Houdini file referencing.

Fixed an issue where passing -U to hcustom on Linux/OSX would trigger a warning about an invalid option.