HDAs are now placed in a dormant state if loaded as a level instance inside a level. Editing the level instance will allow the HDA Component to be cooked. This fixes several issues when using level instances.

Added a Combine Normals COP that blends normal maps together.

Fix an issue in the attribute paint state where if the geometry intersection failed, it could sometimes connect the stroke to the origin unexpectedly.

On Windows, relax HDK compiler version check for the latest Visual Studio 2022 compiler update.

Fixed a crash in Poly Bevel 3.0 SOP when given atypical input topology, consisting only of points and lines.

Fixed a regression that caused an infinite loop setting landscape spline segment meshes by attributes.

Fixed an issue with Bullet's soft constraints which could cause unexpected rotation behaviour in certain situations when the rest length was non-zero.

Updated documentation regarding 'Automatic Headlight Creation' in Render Settings LOP.

XPU: Fixed a bug where camera clipping range didn't take effect when using a lens shader with any projection other than "Perspective" or "Orthographic".

Fixed a crash writing deep EXR via OpenImageIO driver when DCM Of Size parameter is set to "Monochrome".

Updated python state menu hotkey documentation for the new hotkey system.

Fixed an issue with Bullet's soft constraints which could cause unexpected rotation behaviour in certain situations when the rest length was non-zero.

Houdini is more robust against unexpectedly deleted insertion points.

Update Houdini's USD library to include the following fixes:

• Allow running usdcat and other USD executables on MacOS
• Avoid crash when writing USD to volumes mounted to NTFS folders
• Avoid crash in hydra when handling certain kinds of scene updates

Fixed compilation warnings on the MPM Solver "1 warnings generated."

Fix issue when expanding rows in the hotkey editor.

Handle the special OCIO file rule "ColorSpaceNamePathSearch" by default.

Handle the special OCIO file rule "ColorSpaceNamePathSearch" by default.

The Attribute Copy TOP now has an option to copy expected output files from source work items, in addition to copying regular files.

Karma will now properly identify lat-long OpenEXR mipmapped, tiled textures.

Fixed a bug with Oauth2 keys and broken connections to sidefx.com.

Fixed a bug with Oauth2 keys and broken connections to sidefx.com.

Fixed a bug in APEX Script where new output nodes would not be created through BindOutput with the desired name if an output node named "output" already exists.

Fixed a bug in APEX Script where the incorrect callback version may be placed when using an explicit version of the callback after a 'HoudiniVersion' had been set in the script.

Fixed build warnings and errors for UE5.5 preview1. You should now be able to build the plugin from source with 5.5p1.