Fixed an issue with some methods incorrectly serializing and deserializing information when shared memory data transfer is enabled.

Added a new pdg.ServiceManager.killService(..) API method that terminates a service and all its client processes, even if the clients are still running work. This differs from stopService(..) which performs a graceful shutdown.

Added a pdg.ServiceManager.killClient(..) API method that terminats a specific client process. This differs from the existing stopClient(..) method which gracefully exits the service process via an RPC message.

Fixed bug where Houdini was reading just freed memory when saving a hip file.

Fixed a crash in karma CPU when point instancer with zero instances is used on uniform volumes.

Fixed reference to the wrong node on the RBD Deforming to Animated help page

Fixed a bug where using deep EXR as camera's Background Image parameter would fail to read the image unless using the legacy driver (i.e. HOUDINI_OIIO_EXR environment variable set to 0).

Reverted USD patch from 21.0.694 (for material assignment issue) as it introduced a regression.

When "Display resolved paths" is turned off, the scene graph layers pane now shows the raw identifier fro mteh originating layer, rather than the "intermediate" path which evaluates stage variables and turns relative paths into full paths.

Fixed "Bold Non-Integer Keys" not having any effect in the animation editor.

Changed the process of initializing OIDN.

When initializing the OIDN denoiser, idenoise and karma were checking whether a GPU device existed independently of the OIDN library. This caused OIDN to try to allocate and initialize CUDA, ignoring the state of the OIDN_DEFAULT_DEVICE and OIDN_DEVICE_CUDA variables. This test was done whether the `forcecpu` option was selected or not.

Now, we no longer do this test if `forcecpu` is enabled, or if `OIDN_DEVICE_CUDA=0` or `OIDN_DEFAULT_DEVICE=cpu`.

Prevents a possible hang when using the default Quadrilaterals hole filling method on the Poly Fill SOP.

Prevents a possible hang when using the default Quadrilaterals hole filling method on the Poly Fill SOP.

Fixed bugs editing sticky note text containing newlines.

Added environment variable KARMA_ALBEDO_AOV_DIFFUSE which can be set to 1 to force built-in albedo AOV to output albedo of just diffuse BSDF components instead of every BSDF.

Fixed a bug in Poly Extrude 2.0 SOP where the "Copy Edge Group" toggle was having no effect.

Removed dead code from PCG files.

Fixed an issue where baked objects could be deleted if baking a landscape.

Fixes geometry light emission evaluation when kma_roundededge shader is wired in. Previously the kma_roundededge shader was not invoked on emission evaluation for geometry light.

Folder parameters no longer expanded by default.

Removed input merge ndoes when HDA is deleted.

Fixed an issue with the Python Script TOP always copying input files to outputs files during the cook stage, even when the node itself is set to evaluate during the work item generation stage.