- Change Tracking
- Create Brush
- Delete Brush
- Draw strands
- Edit Guides amount value applies to strand deletions and creations
- Edit Guides can be applied directly onto a surface mesh

Surface Comb
- Triangulation mode

Hair from Guides
- Strand groups can be used as hair parts
- Guide proximity mode in Hair from Guides on by default, barycentric interpolation on by default

Arnold Render
- Strand channel export

Clump
- Clump hair editing tool uses hair selection overlay for displaying selected clump hairs
- Improved sub-clumping

Frizz
- Preserve Length option

Animation Cache
- Start and End recording options

Ground
- Added "Ground closest end" parameter
- Noise modifier : Quickly animate basic procedural hair movement, or just add randomness to hair shape
- Smooth Surface modifier : Use OpenSubDiv to dynamically subdivide base mesh
- Transfer Normals modifier : Copy normals of base surface onto hair
- Reduced storage requirements for hair surface dependencies, allows faster work with polygonal base meshes and smaller memory usage
- Strand group patterns : Use a pattern to filter operators for a range of strand groups when needed, instead of a single strand - group
- Strand group blending : Blend between strand groups in various operators
- Multiple hair strand groups: a single strand can now belong to multiple strand groups, allowing a greater control over various effects.

Viewport Display
- Significant speed increases in viewport hair rendering
- Hair overlay colors show strand groups, channel values, and selection directly on hair with custom saturation
- Modifier baking