New: Plant Guides Tool: Added an option to enable or disable automatic new strand selection
New: Interpolate planted guide between all selected strands instead of only the closest one
New: WIP, switching groom format from USD to YAML (both supported for now)
Fixed: Crash when deleting Hair from Mesh Strips meshes
Fixed: FrizzOperator: Incorrect hair deformations with non-identity scene transforms
Fixed: Crash when removing distribution mesh in Hair from Guides
Fixed: Hair from Guides: Multiplier maps not working when using 'Guides as Hair'
Fixed: Curl modifier changes strands even if they are filtered out via groups
Fixed: HFG: Assertion failure when setting Guide Count to `Do not Interpolate` when guide point counts differ
Fixed: Assertion/crash when Generate Strand Data SeExpr encounters an error

Marsel Khadiyev (Software Developer, EPHERE Inc.)