V-Ray 5 for Maya, Update 2.2 now available

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We've released V-Ray 5, Update 2.2 with Maya 2023 support, USD improvements and initial support for the Bifrost Graph with USD.
There's many other improvements and bug fixes.
The builds are available to download on the Chaos website.

Highlights:
- Maya 2023 support
- USD support for VDB volumes, hair and particles
- USD support for selective export of V-Ray materials, including VRayDisplacement and VRaySubdivision
- USD support for export and import of the V-Ray Physical camera attributes
- Vantage live-link
- Adaptive Bucket Splitting

This release supports MayaUSD up to and incl. 0.16.0. Support for 0.17.0 will be available in the stable builds soon.

Here's the full changelog:

New features:
(*) V-Ray: Adaptive bucket splitting;
(*) V-Ray: Maya 2023 support;
(*) Bifrost/USD: Support for rendering Bifrost USD graphs;
(*) USD: Support for importing V-Ray materials from USD to Maya nodes;
(*) USD: Support for importing cameras from USD to Maya nodes;
(*) USD: UI for exporting V-Ray materials to USD in the V-Ray>tools menu;
(*) USD: vrayExportUsdMaterials Command for exporting V-Ray materials & displacement directly to USD;
(*) USD: Support for in-memory only USD stages coming from plug-ins;
(*) USD: Support for VRayLightMesh;
(*) USD: Support for UsdGeomPoints particles;
(*) USD: Support for USD BasisCurves hair;
(*) USD: Support for USD Skel;
(*) USD: Support for VDBs in USD;
(*) USD: Initial support for rendering USDPreviewSurface node in Maya;
(*) USD: MayaUSD 0.15 and 0.16 support;
(*) USD/VRayPhysicalCamera: Support for V-Ray physical cameras from Maya to USD;
(*) V-Ray GPU: Objects Recevive Shadows attribute support;
(*) Ornatrix: Support for "user color attributes" from Ornatrix;
(*) V-Ray: Added a transparency_level output to Sampler Info node and TexSampler plug-in;
(*) Denoiser: Added an option to not denoise alpha;
(*) Chaos Vantage: Vantage live link;

Modified features:
(*) VFB: Made ON/OFF state in buttons in VFB2 visible;
(*) USD: Fixed certain lights in USD not rendering correctly;
(*) V-Ray: Automatically add Render Setup layer override for the enabled attribute of toggled Render elements;
(*) V-Ray: More robust IPR change detection while mouse dragging;

Bug fixes:
(*) V-Ray: Fixed crash with reflection exclude list in VRayObjectProperties;
(*) USD: Fixed memory leak when rendering USD
(*) USD: Fixed error with MDL material;
(*) USD: Fixed crash with instanced transforms in USD;
(*) USD: Fixed wrong import of USDPreviewSurface;
(*) VRayTriplanar/VRayProxy: Fixed wrong local object projection on instanced proxies;
(*) VRayToonMtl: Fixed difference between IPR and Production rendering;
(*) Cosmos: Fixed drag&drop asset position on MacOS HiDPI displays;
(*) V-Ray: Fixed textures not updating in IPR when changing filepath;
(*) Installer: Fixed standalone installation incorrectly proceeding while Maya is running;
(*) Texture Baking: Fixed baking of more than one object through the V-Ray Baking Options;
(*) VRayScene: Fixed unnecessary "Preview for Node" error messages;
(*) V-Ray: Fixed loading a .tx textures with UDIM crashing Maya;
(*) VFB: Fixed an issue with lens effects sometimes being computed wrong;
(*) V-Ray: Fixed illegible symbols in memory tracking log on Linux;
(*) V-Ray: Fixed a server-side distributed rendering crash involving Light Mix;
(*) V-Ray: Fixed an issue with standalone installation preventing starting a distributed rendering server on MacOS;
(*) V-Ray: Fixed a rare crash when using Alembic proxies in IPR;