+ New: Ornatrix toolbar. Two buttons for now: quick hair and settings. Quick hair automatically detects current renderer and sets up hair appropriate for a one-click solution.
+ New: Ability to have a displacement map and offset control the distance at which hairs are generated from distribution mesh
+ New: Symmetry modifier now has X/Y/Z buttons to quickly adjust the symmetry plane
+ New: Symmetry modifier now has an option to automatically ground the mirrored strands
+ New: Viewport mesh hair and generator are cached by hair from guides modifier and do not re-compute topology if only geometrical data changes prior to the hair from guides modifier (e.g. by Edit Guides modifier earlier in the stack). This speeds up brushing and editing significantly.
+ New: Surface comb directional sink creation process now uses a threshold value relative to current viewport zoom. This allows viewport to be zoomed in really close and still be able to create an omnidirectional sink.
+ New: Surface comb modifier direction sink display arrows are now independent of view zoom level.
+ New: Added view hairs % and random seed parameters to hairs from mesh strips object
* Fixed: Hair from strips viewport hair mesh now
* Fixed: Moving sinks changes their direction if their new face is different
* Fixed: Texture coordinates of hair mesh not being preserved when going through the stack without topology modifications
* Fixed: Hair from strips not updating Nitrous hair when changing distribution method
* Fixed: GuidesDelta requiring at least 3 guide points on guide move. It is handled gracefully now and only 2 points are needed now.
* Fixed: Edit guides crashes when "Push away from mesh" is pressed in sub-object mode
+ Added: "PushAwayFromMesh" function to edit guides MXS interface

Marsel Khadiyev (Software Developer, EPHERE Inc.)