Orient Joints SOP: fixed an issue where the Targets Group option was affecting all joints in the skeleton that had more than 1 child joint, no matter if any of the Target Joints were among the children joints or not

Fixed a bug in karma ROP where choosing an AOV preset in Extra Render Vars would cause a python error window to pop up.

Fixed an issue where the Variant Name parameter on the USD Import SOP could display incorrect contents for its menu.

Added hou.Parm.menuContents(), which returns a flat list of the menu tokens and labels in the format required for parameter menu scripts. This makes it simpler to promote the menu from another parameter in a python menu script.

XPU: fixed an issue with loading textures with more than one plane

Orient Joints State: fixed an issue where the joint highlighting would disappear when navigating the viewport

Rig Pose: fixed the Bake from Input error when Mode is set to Override

XPU: fixed a bug where greyscale images were sometimes appearing red

XPU: added 3 new environment variables. KARMA_XPU_OPTIX_CURVE_OPT_LEVEL, KARMA_XPU_OPTIX_HQ_LINEAR_FILTERING and KARMA_XPU_OPTIX_SPARSE_TEXTURES.

Fix LOP Test Geometry shelf tools when the viewport is pointed at a non-LOP network. Prevent LOP tools launched in the network editor from changing the context of pinned scene viewer panes.

Fixed a bug in dicing where two adjacent faces with opposite winding order could lead to a corrupt mesh or a crash.

Prevent crashes that could occur when editing a SOP network while viewing a LOP stage that includes data from that SOP network.

XPU: Optix sparse textures now more robust with out-of-memory situations (fixing a bug where OOM errors went unreported, failing with cryptic "cudaErrorIllegalAddress" message instead)

Fixed a bug where sesinetd would re-save the license when loading the license.

Character Blendshape Channels: Fixed Update from Input action creating 2 entries per blendshape Character Blendshape Channels: Fixed Update from Input action, when only the Skeleton input is connected, not creating entries for all blendshapes

XPU: Fixed possible crash upon initialization with VDB volumes.

Fixed the New Brush action in the Layout LOP so that it once again creates a single instance of the brush node type, and populates it with the standard brush template nodes.

Remove unfinished experimental hou.clone HOM module from build.

Added a "Always Merge Geometry Input" asset option that causes input geometry nodes to always be passed through a merge node when provided to a geometry input parm.

Fixed missing draw time text in the viewer when the Draw Time option is enabled.

Fix loading .sim files. Saved files were valid, but incorrectly marked invalid on load.

Fixed a bug that prevented the LOP node debug flag from being saved and restored properly when using the opscript command.

Fixed a crash when promoting a parameter with an empty script menu to an hda using drag and drop.

Fixed displacement shading in GL when using MaterialX, which was often being ignored.