Announcing OpenUSD v26.05: Key Features and Improvements

OpenUSD v26.05 is a production-focused release centered on reliability and authoring clarity across real pipeline workflows. Rather than a single headline feature, this release combines high-impact improvements across build and deployment, USD composition performance, prototype traversal semantics, validation migration, and day-to-day documentation. This release also continues several release-to-release transitions already underway in the ecosystem, including validation framework adoption…