New: Groom modifier
New: Modifier boxing and unboxing
New: "Groom Node" groom import type support
New: Dynamic baking support for select modifiers
New: Improved Qt GUI for surface varying parameters
New: V-Ray standalone plugin is available for Linux
New: Dynamic clumping
Fixed: Hair doesn't clear all surface dependencies leading to rare crashes
Fixed: Crash when deletions and creations are used together on a deforming mesh
Fixed: Crashes related to floating ramp dialogs

Marsel Khadiyev (Software Developer, EPHERE Inc.)