Houdini Main Changelogs
| 21.0.690 | The Configure Property LOP can now set elementSize metadata on attributes that are not primvars. Though this has no built in USD meaning on non-primvar attributes, it is still a useful convention already used by SOP Import when importing a fixed-tuple-size attribute. |
yesterday | |
| 21.0.689 | Fixed bug where HAPI_RESULT_INVALID_SESSION was being returned by some functions instead of HAPI_RESULT_NO_LICENSE_FOUND when a license error occured. |
Fri. April 17, 2026 | |
| 21.0.688 | Fixed missing wireframe curves when turning off Shade Open Curves on ribbons in No Lighting mode. |
Thu. April 16, 2026 | |
| 21.0.688 | Fixed bug where long team condition would cut off the team list. |
Thu. April 16, 2026 | |
| 21.0.688 | Add support for querying if an SHFS file is installed using python. |
Thu. April 16, 2026 | |
| 21.0.688 | Add support for viewing users from grouped licenses. |
Thu. April 16, 2026 | |
| 21.0.688 | Fixed bug on OSX where a no license prompt from houdini was hanging. |
Thu. April 16, 2026 | |
| 20.0.1407 | Fixed a bug in the SOP Import LOP where NURBS curves with animated topology did not author time samples for attributes such as 'knots' |
Wed. April 15, 2026 | |
| 20.5.935 | Fixed a bug in the SOP Import LOP where NURBS curves with animated topology did not author time samples for attributes such as 'knots' |
Wed. April 15, 2026 | |
| 21.0.687 | Fixed a bug in the SOP Import LOP where NURBS curves with animated topology did not author time samples for attributes such as 'knots' |
Wed. April 15, 2026 | |
| 21.0.687 | Fixed an issue where partitions were not properly being displayed in hkey and sesinetd was not properly removing partition rules. |
Wed. April 15, 2026 | |
| 21.0.686 | Fixed a bug where backfaces woundn't be drawn in the selection highlight overlay |
Tue. April 14, 2026 | |
| 21.0.686 | Improved hkey startup speed for some users. |
Tue. April 14, 2026 | |
| 21.0.686 | Fixed a bug where sesinetd was incorrectly reporting usage in certain cases. |
Tue. April 14, 2026 | |
| 20.5.934 | Fixed a bug where sesinetd was incorrectly reporting peak usage in certain cases. |
Tue. April 14, 2026 | |
| 21.0.685 | Fixed a bug in the APEX Animate viewer state preventing the "Bake to New Layer" toggle in the "Bake" menu from working. |
Mon. April 13, 2026 | |
| 21.0.685 | Fixed a bug where geometry would disappear if rendered with shadows or scene lighting while some render modes were active including: edge select, edge boundary overlay, group overlay, or selectable-template rendering |
Mon. April 13, 2026 | |
| 21.0.685 | Fixed a bug where updating the parameters of an APEX Graph node would not mark a flag to cause a recompilation of the graph. This would results in future evaluations of the graph using the old node parameter values. |
Mon. April 13, 2026 | |
| 21.0.685 | Fixed an SHFS bug on OSX/Linux where installing SHFS files from Houdini using the launcher would cause the files to be placed in root directories instead of under the SHFS directory. |
Mon. April 13, 2026 | |
| 21.0.682 | Apply slight depth offset to geometry marked as selectable-template to avoid being drawn over active geometry in cases where they perfectly overlap |
Fri. April 10, 2026 | |
| 21.0.682 | Fix errors that could occur in RV_Geometry after clearing all connect groups or after freeing instance attributes |
Fri. April 10, 2026 | |
| 21.0.682 | Fixed a crash that could occur if a packed prim's base primitive had 0 points |
Fri. April 10, 2026 | |
| 21.0.682 | Undo actions accidentally left open are now automatically closed whenever 5 seconds have elapsed, provided no mouse buttons are being pressed and no UI events are occurring. The timeout value (in seconds) can be changed via the newly added HOUDINI_UNDO_IDLE_TIMEOUT environment variable, or disable entirely if set to 0. Set the environment variable HOUDINI_ENABLE_UNDO_BUG_NOTIFY=1 to receive notifications when these checks have performed an action. |
Fri. April 10, 2026 | |
| 21.0.682 | Fix APEX Scene Animate viewport state issue where controllers were still pickable when guides were turned off in the display options and not being displayed. |
Fri. April 10, 2026 | |
| 21.0.682 | Improve speed when creating Autorig Component SOP nodes. |
Fri. April 10, 2026 |