diff -Naur openvdb-8.0.0/openvdb/openvdb/CMakeLists.txt openvdb/openvdb/openvdb/CMakeLists.txt
--- openvdb-8.0.0/openvdb/openvdb/CMakeLists.txt	2020-12-24 10:13:14 -0700
+++ openvdb/openvdb/openvdb/CMakeLists.txt	2021-02-05 11:18:33 -0700
@@ -146,6 +148,7 @@
         Boost::disable_autolinking  # add -DBOOST_ALL_NO_LIB
       )
   endif()
+  add_definitions(-D__TBB_NO_IMPLICIT_LINKAGE -DOPENVDB_OPENEXR_STATICLIB)
 endif()
 
 if(USE_EXR)
@@ -379,7 +382,12 @@
 # imported targets.
 
 if(OPENVDB_CORE_SHARED)
-  add_library(openvdb_shared SHARED ${OPENVDB_LIBRARY_SOURCE_FILES})
+  if(WIN32)
+    configure_file(version.rc.in ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/version.rc @ONLY)
+    add_library(openvdb_shared SHARED ${OPENVDB_LIBRARY_SOURCE_FILES} ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/version.rc)
+  else()
+    add_library(openvdb_shared SHARED ${OPENVDB_LIBRARY_SOURCE_FILES})
+  endif()
 endif()
 
 if(OPENVDB_CORE_STATIC)
diff -Naur openvdb-8.0.0/openvdb/openvdb/version.rc.in openvdb/openvdb/openvdb/version.rc.in
--- openvdb-8.0.0/openvdb/openvdb/version.rc.in	1969-12-31 17:00:00 -0700
+++ openvdb/openvdb/openvdb/version.rc.in	2021-02-05 11:18:33 -0700
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+#include <winver.h>
+
+#define VER_FILEVERSION             @OpenVDB_MAJOR_VERSION@,@OpenVDB_MINOR_VERSION@,@OpenVDB_PATCH_VERSION@,0
+#define VER_FILEVERSION_STR         "@OpenVDB_MAJOR_VERSION@.@OpenVDB_MINOR_VERSION@.@OpenVDB_PATCH_VERSION@.0\0"
+
+#define VER_PRODUCTVERSION          @OpenVDB_MAJOR_VERSION@,@OpenVDB_MINOR_VERSION@,@OpenVDB_PATCH_VERSION@,0
+#define VER_PRODUCTVERSION_STR      "@OpenVDB_MAJOR_VERSION@.@OpenVDB_MINOR_VERSION@\0"
+
+#ifndef DEBUG
+#define VER_DEBUG                   0
+#else
+#define VER_DEBUG                   VS_FF_DEBUG
+#endif
+
+VS_VERSION_INFO VERSIONINFO
+FILEVERSION     VER_FILEVERSION
+PRODUCTVERSION  VER_PRODUCTVERSION
+FILEFLAGSMASK   VS_FFI_FILEFLAGSMASK
+FILEFLAGS       (VER_DEBUG)
+FILEOS          VOS__WINDOWS32
+FILETYPE        VFT_DLL
+FILESUBTYPE     VFT2_UNKNOWN
+BEGIN
+    BLOCK "StringFileInfo"
+    BEGIN
+        BLOCK "040904E4"
+        BEGIN
+            VALUE "FileDescription",  "OpenVDB"
+            VALUE "FileVersion",      VER_FILEVERSION_STR
+            VALUE "InternalName",     "OpenVDB"
+            VALUE "ProductName",      "OpenVDB"
+            VALUE "ProductVersion",   VER_PRODUCTVERSION_STR
+        END
+    END
+
+    BLOCK "VarFileInfo"
+    BEGIN
+        /* The following line should only be modified for localized versions.     */
+        /* It consists of any number of WORD,WORD pairs, with each pair           */
+        /* describing a language,codepage combination supported by the file.      */
+        /*                                                                        */
+        /* For example, a file might have values "0x409,1252" indicating that it  */
+        /* supports English language (0x409) in the Windows ANSI codepage (1252). */
+
+        VALUE "Translation", 0x409, 1252
+
+    END
+END
diff -Naur orig/openvdb/openvdb/tree/ValueAccessor.h openvdb/openvdb/openvdb/tree/ValueAccessor.h
--- orig/openvdb/openvdb/tree/ValueAccessor.h	2022-11-02 13:58:26 -0600
+++ openvdb/openvdb/openvdb/tree/ValueAccessor.h	2022-11-02 18:55:09 -0600
@@ -872,7 +872,10 @@
     using LeafNodeType = typename NodeType::LeafNodeType;
     using CoordLimits = std::numeric_limits<Int32>;
 
-    static_assert(std::is_same<NodeType, LeafNodeType>::value);
+    // Blender: Technically not an issue in OpenVDB, but USD 21.11 still builds 
+    // as C++14 which does not support terse asserts yet. Add a message to 
+    // explicitly select the C++14 supported static assert.
+    static_assert(std::is_same<NodeType, LeafNodeType>::value, "cache item node type is not leaf node type");
 
     CacheItem(TreeCacheT& parent)
         : mParent(&parent)