New: V-Ray standalone procedural groom export including a new .vrscene exporter and V-Ray standalone plugin
New: Option to load an Alembic file sequence in Strand Animation modifier using a pattern like "MyFile.###.abc"
New: Texture map can be specified in Generate Guide Data modifier
New: Adopt Shape option when planting roots
Fixed: Grounding deforms guides shapes
Fixed: Rotate operator does update viewport when using optimized mesh display
Fixed: Clumper crashes after manually deleting/creating clumps and assigning external guides
Fixed: Unable to comb hair generated with Hair from Mesh Strips
Fixed: Crash when combing ungrounded Hair from Mesh Strips hair
Fixed: Imported Alembic hair is not visible in the viewport when using optimized mesh

Marsel Khadiyev (Software Developer, EPHERE Inc.)