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What’s New In Deadline 6.1.53841 (Beta 12)
This release mainly consists of bug fixes and Pulse stability improvements.
General Improvements
- Fixed some issues with trimming whitespace off of values in the job info and plugin info files.
- Fixed a small bug in the message output for invalid slave remote log requests.
- Fixed a bug where stack traces for Python script errors didn’t show the correct line numbers.
- House cleaning has been refactored to improve performance and memory usage.
- House cleaning process is now locked so that only a single application can perform house cleaning at any given time.
- When releasing tasks for the same pending job with frame dependencies, they are now released as a group, instead of one at a time.
- Fixed a bug in house cleaning where job auxiliary folders wouldn’t get cleaned up properly.
- Added timings and counts to the house cleaning log for better debugging.
- Added configurable maximums for file-based house cleaning operations (archiving jobs, deleting auxiliary folders, deleting old job report files), which can be configured from the Monitor.
- Task progress is now reset to 0 when the task changes to a state other than completed.
Launcher Improvements
- When the launcher displays the update warning, it now brings it to the front on OSX.
Monitor Improvements
- Added tooltips to Power Management dialog.
- The Slave-based and machine-based remote control menu items are now in separate sub-menus.
- Rearranged buttons in Job Dependency view
- Fixed a bug when showing an icon for a deleted job node in the Job Dependency view.
- The Job Control menu is now disabled in the Job Dependency view context menu if no jobs are selected.
- Added configurable maximums for house cleaning to the House Cleaning page in the Repository Options.
- The Monitor now only caches the task collection for the current selected job. Before, it could end up caching every task collection, which would increase memory usage.
- When changing many job states at once from the job list (requeuing, suspending, resuming, deleting, etc), each event plugin is only loaded once, instead of being loaded for each job.
- The pool quick filter in the job list control is now populated properly again.
- Fixed how some text was set in the lists that prevented integer-based list filters from working.
Slave Improvements
- The confirmation message that is displayed when closing Slave now has a timer so that Slave doesn’t get stuck when the system tells Slave to shut down.
- Fixed a NullReferenceException that could occur when the slave checks if its task has been requeued.
Pulse Improvements
- The confirmation message that is displayed when closing Pulse now has a timer so that Pulse doesn’t get stuck when the system tells Pulse to shut down.
- The web service no longer caches data from the database to reduce memory usage.
Command Improvements
- Fixed a typo in the help text for the SetGroupsForSlave command.
- Added missing Release/Debug character at the end of the Deadline version in the About command.
Scripting Improvements
- Added a submit job function to the standalone Python API that accepts dictionaries for the job info and plugin info instead of files.
3ds Max Improvements
- Fixed a “RegionRendering” bug in 3dsmax.py.
- Added improved backburner PATH information to 3dsmax plugin.
- Added some additional popup handlers.
- Removed backburner PATH sanity check that could fail renders unnecessarily.
Cinema 4D Improvements
- Added some additional progress handling.
Maya Improvements
- When submitting a dependent VRay standalone job after doing a VRay export job, the .vrscene extension is added to the vrscene file path if it isn’t already specified.
- Added stdout handlers for fatal vray error messages.
Maxwell Improvements
- When rendering an animation, the MXI file is now padded with the appropriate frame number so that they don’t overwrite each other.