HPS 2025.5.0
Note
Upcoming Change to Product Package Names
To improve clarity and consistency, HOOPS will adopt a unified naming scheme across all products. New package names will include product, version, platform, architecture, and compiler details. This change will take effect no earlier than the 2025.7.0 release in mid-September 2025.
Technology Updates
Third-Party Library Updates
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| Android NDK | r27 |
Library Compatibility Information
| Library name | Version | Windows | Linux | OS X | Android | iOS | Notes |
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| Android NDK | r27 |  |
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| HOOPS Exchange | 2025.5.0 | |
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Android support is limited. See this explanation. |
| HOOPS Publish | 2025.5.0 | |
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Requires SSSE3 instruction set support, Linux support is limited to C++ |
| HOOPS Communicator HTML Sprocket | 2025.4.0 | |
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HC Sprocket only works with Visual Studio toolset 142. |
| HOOPS Communicator Streaming Sprocket (HCA) | 2025.3.0 | |
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HC Sprocket only works with Visual Studio toolset 142. |
| .NET Framework | 4.8 | |
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Required for Visual Studio v14.2 libraries and samples. |
| .NET Standard | 2.0 | |
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Required for Visual Studio 2019 (toolset 142) and 2022 (toolset 143). |
| .NET Core | 8.0 | |
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Required for Visual Studio 2022 (toolset 143). |
| Parasolid | 35.1 | |
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For iOS platforms, support is limited to 64-bit platforms for the Parasolid Sprockets (hps_sprk_parasolid and hps_sprk_exchange_parasolid). |
| RealDWG | 2023 | |
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RealDWG 2023 is only compatible with Visual Studio 2019 (v142 toolchain) |
| RealDWG | 2025 | |
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RealDWG 2025 is only compatible with Visual Studio 2022 (v143 toolchain) |
| Qt | 5.12.7 | |
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| SketchUp | 2023 | |
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VS2019 Redistributable required, and only x64 Sketchup is supported |
Platform Changes
- Support for all Microsoft Windows 10 editions is scheduled to end in October 2025 in coordination with Microsoft’s scheduled end of life policy.
- Support for OpenGL on macOS is deprecated and will no longer be supported starting in January 2026. Partners will have to migrate to Metal in order to maintain support for Apple devices in the future.
Functional Changes
- We have improved the rendering of shadow map for PBR model so it now takes correctly transparency into account to show a correct result.
Deprecations
- HOOPS Communicator sprocket (HCA) is deprecated and will be removed in an unscheduled future release.
Fixed Bugs
| Issue | Description |
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| SDHV-21192 | Shadow maps now know about PBR transparency. |
| SDHV-21179 | Fix ShowCursors with adding one missing enum. |
| SDHV-21172 | Fixed a case where cylinder bounding box wasn’t regenerated after being edited. |
| SDHV-21166 | Resolve crash by updating animation tracking counter on deserialisation. |
| SDHV-21075 | Improvement of contour line drawing for segment display lists. |
| SDHV-20254 | Add a feature to enable lines antialiasing for priority rendering. |
