New: Maya 2025 support
New: FurBall groom has parameters
New: Mesh From Strands: Added negative axis options to the 'Proxy Reference Up Axis' parameter.
New: Circular brush mirroring performance is improved by ~90% (tested on 100K strands)
New: Option to set default strand channel values in Edit Guides
New: Read Maya preferences instead of assuming their values
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: Propagator: 'Selected Side' settings are not stored when saving the scene
Fixed: Strand Channel name changes are not stored with the scene
Fixed: Mirror brush not working
Fixed: Paint brush: The first brush strokes add random values to strands outside the brush range
Fixed: Clumper: Hairs clumped to guides will not follow the guide's animation
Fixed: MeshFromStrands: Shaders entries disappear from the shader list when the node's AE loses focus.
Fixed: Problem loading grooms that contain a referenced Hair object, like a propagated feather
Fixed: Don't allow referencing the hair itself in Merge node
Fixed: Adopt External Guides: Incorrect Strand Deformation

Marsel Khadiyev (Software Developer, EPHERE Inc.)