New: Circular brush mirroring performance is improved by ~90% (tested on 100K strands)
New: FurBall groom has parameters
New: Mesh From Strands: Added negative axis options to the 'Proxy Reference Up Axis' parameter.
New: Option to set default strand channel values in Edit Guides
New: Disabled all sticky parameters
Fixed: Crash when importing some MetaHuman Alembic grooms
Fixed: Guides close to UV edges will flicker on animation when texture islands are present
Fixed: Crash trying to access dynamic parameter set descriptor owner
Fixed: Incorrect direction used for MFS conform to surface option with proxy meshes. The results are also smoothed, like they are with flat/cylindrical hair.
Fixed: Error/crash when loading Alembic files with unexpected property data types (e.g. when exported from Houdini)
Fixed: Assertion/crash when Symmetry plane normal is not of unit length
Fixed: 'Assert failed' error when baking the Propagation node
Fixed: Edit Guides channel renaming is not saved with the scene
Fixed: Edit Guides brush parameters are not shown when changing selected brush
Fixed: Edit Guides - Comb, Local method doesn't work
Fixed: Orientation issue with proxy meshes conform to surface option. Added smoothing.
Fixed: Combing doesn't work in Edit Guides with YAML grooms
Fixed: Strand Channels are not stored in the scene
Fixed: Hair from Guides: 'Use Guide Proximity' checkbox does not work
Fixed: Hair from Guides: Guide Area Calculation method does not have any effect
Fixed: Root parameters in Edit Guides are not initialized in GUI
Deprecated MassFX dynamics modifier

Marsel Khadiyev (Software Developer, EPHERE Inc.)