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What’s New In Deadline 6.1.53751 (Beta 11)
This release mainly consists of bug fixes.
General Improvements
- Added more weighted scheduling options to handle tiebreakers (FIFO or Balanced).
- House cleaning can now be run in a separate process again.
- Default is to run houscleaning and pending job scan in separate processes now.
Installer Improvements
- The Windows Repository installer can now reinstall mongo if there is already an existing mongo service.
Launcher Improvements
- Fixed a bug that caused the update countdown dialog to get stuck at 20 seconds.
Monitor Improvements
- Added buttons to pop out or close stats reports in Farm Reports dialog.
- Fixed a bug in the Farm Reports dialog in the Data Column editing that caused the wrong column to be selected for the grouping.
- Fixed a bug in Stats Reports where TimeSpan values weren’t sorting/graphing properly.
- Fixed a bug in Custom Stats Reports where it wasn’t maintaining custom columns/grouping.
- Fixed a bug where slave status sorting wasn’t taking rendering time into account.
- Task update events are no longer fired if there are multiple jobs selected.
- The script dependency and required asset pages now get the file name portion for the list view correctly on all the operating systems.
- Updated the title of the Job Dependency view “unsaved changes” question box.
- Removed some debugging output.
- Fixed a bug when moving multiple slaves between lists in the Limit dialog.
- The selection is now maintained when moving items between lists in the limit dialog.
- Fixed some sorting and display issues in some of the list importers.
- Fixed a frame column sort bug in the task list.
- Fixed a memory leak in the cloud region object.
- Fixed a bug in the task importer that caused pre and post tasks from disappearing in the UI.
- Job Dependency Graph - added ability to double click Details area and not have it open the job properties panel
- Job Dependency Graph - added text elide
- Job Dependency Graph - added icons to nodes
- Job Dependency Graph - titles are now left justified
- Job Dependency Graph - increased socket sizes to help with hit testing (other changes were made in library to improve hit testing)
- Job Dependency Graph - improved detection for selecting using fully contains item
- Job Dependency Graph - no longer throws errors when clicking on nodes of deleted jobs
- Job Dependency Graph - improved description message to better account for which types of nodes are shown
- Job Dependency Graph - made it so asset and script nodes are the same size
- Job Dependency Graph - Connections Darken when hovered over
Slave Improvements
- Slaves no longer try to send email or popup notifications to empty email addresses or machine names.
- Fixed a bug where the GatherResourceUsageDuringRendering network setting was checked on windows, instead of being checked on linux and osx.
Pulse Improvements
- Fixed some duplicate key errors.
3ds Max Improvements
- Fixed a progress bug in 3dsmax plugin that could cause 3dsmax renders to hang.
- Added exe version info output to 3dsmax plugin.
- Added a fix from Bobo that allows SMTD to handle the case where the selected camera in the viewport is actually a light.
- Fixed a bug where the Max.log index was reset when starting a job.
- Fixed naming conventions of old tile assembler while using draft.
Draft Improvements
- Fixed a draft event plugin bug when there are multiple outputs for a job.
Fusion Improvements
- Fixed a fusion error when rendering.
Job Transfer Improvements
- Fixed some bugs in the JobTransfer plugin.
modo Improvements
- Fixed a modo submission error.
Nuke Improvements
- Switched the Nuke executable to upper case on windows (though it really shouldn’t matter).
- Tweaked some confirmation dialogs in the Nuke submitter to prevent them from being too wide.
Vray Spawner Improvements
- When submitting from the Monitor, the number of tasks now equals the Maximum server count for the vray spawner submitter.