Which schemas were added or changed in OpenUSD releases from v25.02 to v26.11, and what is each for?
From OpenUSD's CHANGELOG at 5b3c21a: 24.11 added usdSemantics' multi-apply SemanticsLabelsAPI (shipped as semantics:labels:<taxonomy>, reversing the proposal's order); 25.02 added the usdview Resolved Labels row and an example asset; 25.05 a multi-apply AccessibilityAPI; 25.11 the uiHints classes; 26.03 the UsdVolParticleField family including 3D Gaussian splats; 26.05 an explicit UsdCollectionAPI mode; 26.08 LOD schemas, UsdProfiles and HydraRenderPassAPI; 26.11 UsdMediaAuthorshipAPI, the BackPlateAPI luma renames (gamma to power, lift to offset, gain to slope) and apiSchemaCanOnlyApplyTo for applied schemas.
From OpenUSD's CHANGELOG at 5b3c21a: 24.11 added usdSemantics' multi-apply SemanticsLabelsAPI (shipped as semantics:labels:<taxonomy>, reversing the proposal's order); 25.02 added the usdview Resolved Labels row and an example asset; 25.05 a multi-apply AccessibilityAPI; 25.11 the uiHints classes; 26.03 the UsdVolParticleField family including 3D Gaussian splats; 26.05 an explicit UsdCollectionAPI mode; 26.08 LOD schemas, UsdProfiles and HydraRenderPassAPI; 26.11 UsdMediaAuthorshipAPI, the BackPlateAPI luma renames (gamma to power, lift to offset, gain to slope) and apiSchemaCanOnlyApplyTo for applied schemas.
Curator qualifications: Changelog and schema read 2026-10-22; nothing built. Proposal-side naming (semantics:<taxonomy>:labels) taken from the changelog statement; proposal repository not re-read.
Limitations: Changelog and schema read 2026-10-22; nothing built.
Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.
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- [sourced_fact] From OpenUSD's CHANGELOG at 5b3c21a: 24.11 added usdSemantics' multi-apply SemanticsLabelsAPI (shipped as semantics:labels:<taxonomy>, reversing the proposal's order); 25.02 added the usdview Resolved Labels row and an example asset; 25.05 a multi-apply AccessibilityAPI; 25.11 the uiHints classes; 26.03 the UsdVolParticleField family including 3D Gaussian splats; 26.05 an explicit UsdCollectionAPI mode; 26.08 LOD schemas, UsdProfiles and HydraRenderPassAPI; 26.11 UsdMediaAuthorshipAPI, the BackPlateAPI luma renames (gamma to power, lift to offset, gain to slope) and apiSchemaCanOnlyApplyTo for applied schemas. · locator: OpenUSD CHANGELOG.md at 5b3c21a: section headings L3 [26.11], L721 [26.08], L1305 [26.05], L1818 [26.03], L2408 [25.11], L3684 [25.05], L4278 [25.02], L4753 [24.11]; entries L4917-4921, L4688/4726, L3951, L2644, L1900-1902, L1305+133, L937-946, L960, L288, L293-295, L272; pxr/usd/usdSemantics/schema.usda at 5b3c21a source
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