IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR ALL USERS:
Please read the Deadline 7.0 Licensing and Compatibility thread for important information regarding Deadline 7.0:
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[i]NOTES:
- If you are upgrading from a previous Deadline 7 beta version, you must reinstall the Deadline Client on your machines. Auto-upgrading will not work properly if upgrading from a previous beta version.
- Deadline 7.0 beta 3 and later requires an updated license server application. You can find the latest version of the license server here: thinkboxsoftware.com/license … all-files/[/i]
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The documentation has been updated for this build, but is still not complete. In addition, the User Manual documentation is currently in HTML format. Simply unzip the documentation to your machine and open index.html from the html folder to view the documentation. We plan creating PDF versions of the docs in the future.
What’s New In Deadline 7.0.0.44 (Beta 7)
This release fixes a bunch of bugs and updates a few features. Here are the highlighted changes:
General Improvements
- Fixed a bug in the orphaned task scan in the Repository Repair operation that caused tasks that have been rendering more than 5 minutes to get requeued.
- The Jigsaw panel now includes options to lock and disable regions.
- Fixed an issue in the Google cloud plugin.
Repository Improvements
- Lock files are no longer used in the Repository to ensure that operations like Housecleaning and Repository Repair are only done by one application at a time.
- There are now separate 32 and 64 bit versions of the windows bin.zip file in the repository. This is so that we can ship platform-specific libraries as part of the auto-upgrade in the future if necessary.
Database Improvements
- Added a “locking” collection to the database that is used instead of lock files to ensure that operations like Housecleaning and Repository Repair are only done by one application at a time.
Client Application Improvements
- Improved the Connection Error message when a Deadline application cannot connect to the Repository or Database.
Installer Improvements
- Windows installers are now code-signed.
- The settings folder is now backed up by the Repository Installer.
- The Thinkbox.ico and repository.ini files are now placed in the settings folder in the Repository.
Monitor Improvements
- Improved the default widths of some of the columns for lists in the Repository Options.
- The Job Candidate Filter in the Slave list now handles jobs with empty whitelists properly.
- Task progress bars are now filled properly based on the current task progress.
- Task progress bars are now only visible for completed and rendering tasks.
- Task progress bars no longer change color based on the task’s state.
- Disabled ability to resubmit tasks for Tile and Maintenance jobs.
- For tile jobs, the tile numbers under the Frame column in the Task List now start at 1 instead of 0.
- Fixed a bug in Job Properties where editing a job’s existing Script Dependencies wasn’t being committed properly when pressing OK.
- Fixed some errors when removing multiple asset or script dependencies from their respective lists in the job properties.
- Fixed a spacing inconsistency between the timestamp and the text in the Monitor’s Console panel.
- When switching between the global pinned monitor layouts, the local pinned layout settings (column layouts and filters) are ignored so that they do not get clobbered.
- Fixed spelling of “interruptiple” in the job properties dialog.
- Fixed a typo in the Application Logging panel in the Repository Options.
- Fixed a layout bug in the Plugin Configuration if CategoryOrder was specified in the .options file of a plugin.
Slave Improvements
- Fixed a bug that could cause the slave to crash during shutdown.
- Fixed a bug that would result in only partial logs for a task that rendered across different days.
- The local task logs have been renamed to ensure they are unique to the slave and render thread that is rendering them.
- Any orphaned local task logs are now cleaned up the next time that render thread renders a task.
Scripting Improvements
- Added some missing properties to the doxygen docs for BalancerInfo, PulseInfo, SlaveInfo, and SlaveSettings.
Cinema 4D Improvements
- Added version 16 to the version drop down in the Monitor submitter.
Draft Improvements
- Improved the error message when the Draft Tile Assembler can’t load input tiles.
Lightwave Improvements
- Jobs submitted from Lightwave 11.8 now render properly.
Maya Improvements
- Jigsaw for Maya now stores regions in relative coordinates.
- Jigsaw for Maya now properly handles images with a resolution larger than the current display.
VRay Improvements
- In the Ply2Vrmesh submitter, the attribute field is now wider.