OpenUSD 23.11 release now on Github

jesswang · October 13, 2023, 10:00pm

Hi all!

The release candidate for OpenUSD 23.11 is now available on Github! You can see what’s new in the CHANGELOG.

We anticipate officially releasing 23.11 on Friday, October 20th. Please post any questions or feedback you may have in this thread, and file issues in our GitHub repository for bug reports.

Thank you!

dhruvgovil · October 18, 2023, 5:32pm

We’re seeing a fairly reproducible segfault that seems to have been introduced with 23.11 on macOS.
Filed Segfaults in HgiMetal on USD 23.11 · Issue #2745 · PixarAnimationStudios/OpenUSD · GitHub

jesswang · October 19, 2023, 6:58pm

Thanks for flagging, Dhruv!

We’re working on fixes for the above issue and Storm shader compilation errors on Intel Arc GPUs #2743 as well and anticipate having a new release candidate up soon! We’ll also push back the official release date so folks have a few days to review the new release candidate.

jesswang · October 23, 2023, 10:55pm

Hi all!

The new release candidate for OpenUSD 23.11 is now available on Github. Let us know if you have any feedback!

The anticipated release date is now Thursday, October 26.

paulgolter · October 24, 2023, 12:11pm

Hey @jesswang

Seems like a lot of the links in the #Documentation section of the Changelog file are broken:

github.com

PixarAnimationStudios/OpenUSD/blob/db8d57d59ccb143e4b04922bad545f36cbcfba1e/CHANGELOG.md#documentation

# Change Log

## [23.11] - 2023-10-20

### Build

- Updated C++ standard version to C++17 per VFX Reference Platform CY2022.

- Various fixes and changes to build_usd.py:
  - Updated dependency versions to adhere to VFX Reference Platform CY2022.
  - Fixed a bug where boost would not be rebuilt if it failed to build on an 
    earlier run.
  - Updated zlib version used by build_usd.py to 1.2.13 
    (PR: [#2485](https://github.com/PixarAnimationStudios/OpenUSD/pull/2485))

- Fixed a bug on Windows where loading Python modules would fail if the PATH 
  environment variable contained a relative path. 
  (PR: [#2409](https://github.com/PixarAnimationStudios/OpenUSD/pull/2409))

- Numerous changes to remove uses of boost throughout the source tree.

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jesswang · October 24, 2023, 4:46pm

Hi Paul! Good callout!

I think you might be referring to the links to documentation at openusd.org (eg Rendering user guide, Variable expressions user guide), and that’s actually expected behavior in this short window between the release candidate and actual release.

If you change “release” to “dev” in the URLs, you can see the documentation. For example:

I hope that helps, and sorry for the confusion!

jesswang · October 26, 2023, 11:09pm

Hello all!

The OpenUSD 23.11 release has been pushed to Github
See the CHANGELOG for what’s new! https://github.com/PixarAnimationStudios/OpenUSD/blob/a4cad2f/CHANGELOG.md

dhruvgovil · October 27, 2023, 2:47am

Congratulations on the release and thanks for the quick turnarounds on the issues