New: Graft grooms tool
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: Import groom as baked hair and baked guides option
Fixed: Incorrect direction used for Mesh from Strands 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: Animation Cache: Strand channel data is not recorded
Fixed: GPU hair crash, reverted to older hair display method

Marsel Khadiyev (Software Developer, EPHERE Inc.)