New: Export "groom_color" attribute to UE Alembic
New: Show Channels map in Edit Guides object mode
New: Shift + Drag clump knot to move it, Ctrl + Drag to snap selection to nearest knot
New: "Cap faces" attribute in Mesh from Strands for generating closed strand meshes
New: Surface Comb: The transform gizmo now properly orients itself based on the middle sink's surface transformation
New: Surface Comb: Instead of averaging all constituent sinks, they use the middle sink of each curved group
New: Surface Comb: Sinks can be rotated and scaled (before only move worked)
New: RootWarper can use texture coordinates outside of [0-1] range
New: Mesh From Strands: Added the ability to close the tubes generated by mesh from strands
New: Edopt External Guides modifier assigns guide dependencies to hair based on external guides (useful for UE export).
Fixed: Unable to create per-vertex channels in EG
Fixed: Hair from Guides param map reorganization
Fixed: Initial parameter map display (in object mode) in Hair from Guides
Fixed: Guides from Curves preset offered even when no curves are selected
Fixed: A crash when using "Cap Ends" option with group meshes in Mesh from Strands
Fixed: Crash deleting a mirrored sink
Fixed: Don't set/trigger texmap parameter changes if assigned texmap is same as previous (avoids various re-evaluations)
Fixed: Crash reloading a scene with stored dynamic baked modifier
Fixed: Edit Guides: Can't create Per-Vertex Channel
Fixed: Segment interpolation is broken

Marsel Khadiyev (Software Developer, EPHERE Inc.)