Houdini 17 includes a wealth of new features, including a GPUaccelerated multisolver for cloth, hair, soft bodies and grains, a new white water solver, a materialbased destruction framework, facial autorigs, fullbody IK, enhanced animation and modeling workflows, UV autoseaming, GLTF I/O, gamedev tools and much more.
On October 2, SideFX is hosting the Houdini 17 Launch event at Cirque Éloize in Montreal. The presentation will be recorded and we'll publish it asap afterwards.
The H17 release is scheduled for midOctober 2018.