Deadline 6.2.0.25 (Release Candidate 1)

rrussell · April 30, 2014, 4:46pm

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rrussell · April 30, 2014, 4:47pm

What’s New In Deadline 6.2.0.25 (Release Candidate 1)

This is the first release candidate for 6.2, and is mostly just bug fixes and additional improvements.

General Improvements

On Linux and OSX, the shell scripts are no longer called by the Deadline applications to start other Deadline applications. The applications are now just launched directly, since the environment is already configured correctly.
When a job is resubmitted, it no longer keeps the original job’s Bad Slave list.

Launcher Improvements

Monitor Improvements

Fixed a memory leak that was being caused by the Job Details panel.
The Job Candidate Filter in the slave list now properly handles slaves that are in the Excluded list for Limits that the selected job requires.
Exporting data from Farm Status Reports will now use the internal numeric value for integers, floats, and time spans. Bytes will be used for file sizes and memory data, and milliseconds will be used for time spans.
When copying the data from a list in Deadline, the internal numeric value will be used for integers, floats, and time spans. Bytes will be used for file sizes and memory data, and milliseconds will be used for time spans.
When right-clicking on a pre or post job task and viewing its reports, the filter is now set correctly.

Slave Improvements

Fixed a bug where the Average and Peak ram usage in a task error report could be -2147483648 instead of 0.
Fixed a bug that could prevent Bad Slave detection from working.
Slaves now purge their local log files on a more regular basis.

Pulse Improvements

Pulse now purges its local log files on a more regular basis.
When submitting a job through the REST API, there is now an optional IdOnly parameter that can be used to just return the job ID.

Scripting Improvements

Not all path mapping functions in RepositoryUtils were logging the results properly. This has been fixed.
Updated standalone Python API to support the IdOnly option when submitting jobs.
When using Jobs.SubmitJobFiles in the standalone Python API, the plugin info settings are now set properly (previously, the job info was also being submitted as the plugin info).
Added GetDeadlinePluginWithJob and GetDeadlineEventListenerWithJobs functions to plugins and event plugins (respectively). They can be used instead of the original GetDeadlinePlugin and GetDeadlineEventListener functions. The first accepts a single job object, and the second accepts a list of jobs.

3ds Max Improvements

Updated Lightning plugin for 3ds Max 2015 to fix some rendering issues.
State Set rendering now works with 3ds Max 2015.
Added new popup handler for 3ds Max 2015.
Updated 3dsmax.py to handle new 3ds Max 2015 and 3ds Max 2015 SP1 FileVersion numbers.
Added “off-load” to VRay/Mental Ray DBR labels in the submitters to help avoid confusion.
Added User Options in SMTD to configure when the warning message for copying external files is shown.
Fixed an error in SMTD that could occur if the VRay raw or split output files were enabled, but the path was undefined.
Fixed an issue when collecting output paths for render elements when doing single frame tile or multi-region rendering.
When doing a region or tile render with padding > 0, and using VRay’s frame buffer to save the images, Draft is now used to crop the saved images to their desired size.

Blender Improvements

Added /usr/local/bin/blender to the list of default executable paths, since this is where package managers put it.

Houdini Improvements

Added warning to the integrated submitter when submitting dependent Mantra job and there are ROPs with the Disk File option disabled.
Added additional job properties to the integrated and Monitor submitters that can be set for the dependent Mantra job.
The option to export IFDs in the Monitor submission script is now sticky.

modo Improvements

Shotgun Improvements

Fixed Shotgun Event Plugin to update PathToFrames field even if we only have the output directory for the job.

VRay DBR Improvements

VRay DBR submitter for 3dsmax doesn’t update automatically by default now. There is a new Update Severs button that can be used, or the option to automatically update can be enabled.