A lot of work is going into a future release of Houdini, but also plenty of bug fixes and minor RFE work for 18. Here's some of the more significant changes we've made since the last production build.

• Open Temp Directory and Make Default Scheduler from Scheduler TOP Node RMB menu
  
  
• Overhaul of FFmpeg Encode Video [www.sidefx.com] and FFmpeg Extract Images [www.sidefx.com]
  
  
• Added LOPs support to HDA Processor [www.sidefx.com]
  
  
• More options for MQ setup with Deadline Scheduler [www.sidefx.com] to minimize overhead.
  
  
• For Farm Schedulers we are testing a new high performance Message Queue (MQ) [www.sidefx.com]. Currently integrated for Deadline only.
  
  

Thanks for this, slight typo in the topic I suppose: 18.0.516? (s.b. 18.0.416?)