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Deadline 7.1.0.23 (Release Candidate 1)

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IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR ALL USERS:

Please read the Deadline 7.1 Licensing and Compatibility thread for important information regarding Deadline 7.1:
viewtopic.php?f=204&t=12100&p=53363#p53363

Full release notes for Deadline 7.1 can be found in the Deadline 7.1 documentation (see Downloads below).

Downloads

Installers: thinkboxsoftware.box.com/s/p0o1 … gwn6tludqd
Documentation: thinkboxsoftware.box.com/s/4tvb … qlyjav53l7

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What’s New In Deadline 7.1.0.23 (Release Candidate 1)

This is the first release candidate for Deadline 7.1, and includes various bug fixes and minor improvements.

Deadline 7.1 is now feature locked, and we will primarily be focusing on bug fixes over the next month or so. That being said, we are always accepting feature requests for future versions of Deadline.

Here are the highlighted changes:

General Improvements

  • Added an Idle Detection option to only stop a slave when the machine is no longer idle if that slave was originally started by idle detection.
  • Fixed a bug when doing path mapping that caused the whole file to be read into memory when there weren’t any paths in the Mapped Paths settings in the Repository Options.
  • Deadline no longer tries to create the deadline.ini file if it doesn’t exist, which can happen unintentionally when the deadline.ini file is being updated on Linux or OSX, and cause the file to get wiped.
  • The Deadline applications no longer cache the machine’s host name, which can cause problems when running multiple instances of the Slave on the same machine.

Installer Improvements

  • The SketchUp submitter installer now works even if SketchUp hasn’t been installed on the machine yet.
  • Fixed the default install paths in the SketchUp submitter installer for SketchUp 7, 8, and 2013.
  • Added command line option to the Client installer to set the launcher daemon delay setting (Linux and OSX).

Job Improvements

  • Fixed a Daylight Savings Time related bug that affected job archiving and getting jobs from the REST API.
  • When archiving a job, any JSON errors are now written to the log.

Launcher Improvements

  • The launcher now passes a “-service” command line argument to the slave if it is running as a service on Windows. This tells the slave that it is running as a service.
  • The init.d script (Linux) and launchd script (OSX) now pass a -daemon argument to the launcher.
  • When the launcher is running as a daemon (Linux and OSX), it will sleep the number of seconds specified for the LauncherDaemonStartupDelay setting in the system deadline.ini file before starting up any other Deadline applications. This delay helps ensure that the machine has its hostname set during startup before launching Slave, Pulse, or Balancer.

Monitor Improvements

  • Fixed a bug that could prevent the report panel from displaying an error message if it can’t connect to Pulse to stream logs (if Pulse log streaming is enabled in the Monitor options).
  • Fixed how the controls in the Override Idle Detection group box were enabled/disabled when enabling it.
  • Split local slave dialog into 3 tabs so that it’s not so tall.
  • Error and log reports now show if the slave was running as a service (Windows only).
  • The Remote Desktop script now lets you specify a settings file or folder when connecting (which is how it used to work in Deadline 5).
  • Added a new CheckTemperatureSensors.py that can be used to check the temperature of all sensors in Power Management.
  • The list labels in the Limit Dialog are now set correctly when editing a Machine-level Limit.
  • When sending remote commands from the Monitor to the Slave, only the slave’s postfix is sent, instead of the full slave name. This prevents slaves from starting up with the wrong slave name if the machine’s host name changes.
  • When sending remote commands from the Monitor to the default slave instance on the machine, the ‘~’ character is used to represent the default instance (since the default instance has no postfix).
  • Added options for custom viewer name (which is used for the menu item), and if it supports chunked tasks. If an image viewer supports chunked tasks, the chunked task image viewer dialog won’t be shown.
  • Added a better error message to deal with custom viewers that are pointing to directories instead of files.
  • The CPU Affinity settings in the Slave Properties now mention that it’s only supported on Windows and Linux.
  • Permissions for the cloud panel are now open by default.
  • When the Monitor is configured to start in super user mode, it no longer hides panels during startup that the user wouldn’t normally have permissions to see.
  • The Monitor no longer loads the Monitor settings twice during startup.

Balancer Improvements

  • Fixed a caching issue that affected cloud regions.

Scripting Improvements

  • Added IsRunningAsService() function to DeadlinePlugin to check if the slave is running as a service on Windows.
  • Added Limit properties LimitCurrentHolders, LimitInUse, and LimitStubLevel to scripting API.
  • Added RepositoryUtils.GetPowerManagementOptions function to scripting API.
  • Added PowerManagementGroup and PowerManagementOptions classes to scripting API.
  • The SetIniFileSetting function no longer changes the order of sections and keys in the ini file.
  • Added RepositoryUtils.GetPathMappings() function to get all the path mappings for the current OS and region.

3ds Max Improvements

  • Added extra LogInfo line so we can see in a crashing 3dsMax error/log report that slave is running as a service.
  • Added V-Ray & Corona VFB override checkbox option in SMTD.
  • Added V-Ray & Corona VFB enable/disable checkbox, only active if override option is enabled in SMTD.
  • Updated customize.ms to use DeadlineUtil.WarnMessage for warning messages.
  • Added support for V-Ray Image Sampling - “Render Mask” Type = current scene selection.
  • Updated V-Ray advanced renderer maxscript properties to support latest V-Ray v3.15 / nightly builds.
  • Updated iray advanced renderer maxscript properties to support most recent iray features introduced in 3dsMax 2014 onwards.
  • Added read-only labels to 3dsmax submission via SMTD to display the final, assembled image resolution when tile/region/jigsaw rendering.
  • Fixed regression introduced in the ExtraInfo mxs $token customisation in beta 4.
  • Changed “V-Ray VFB [Region] button is enabled” sanity check from #fail to #fix.

After Effects Improvements

  • Changed wording of “Number of Tasks” to “Number of Machines” in multi machine rendering settings.
  • Enabling multi machine mode in the Monitor submitter now disables the local rendering option.

Anime Studio Improvements

  • Updated the Anime Studio submitter so that it can parse .anime and .animeproj scene files for layers. These new formats were introduced in Anime Studio 11.

CSi* Improvements

  • Added option to submit the data file with the job.

EnergyPlus Improvements

  • Added option to submit the data file with the job.

Houdini Improvements

  • Added Tile rendering support when submitting from the integrated or Monitor submitters.
  • Improved path mapping support by using the HOUDINI_PATHMAP environment variable.

Mantra Standalone Improvements

  • Added Tile rendering support when submitting from the Monitor submitter.
  • Improved path mapping support by using the HOUDINI_PATHMAP environment variable.
  • Fixed a path mapping error that affected Houdini’s crowd feature.

Maya Improvements

  • The Threads setting is now disabled in the Monitor submitter if it isn’t supported by the selected renderer.
  • Some settings in the Monitor submitter are now disabled when the “File” renderer is selected.

MicroStation Improvements

  • Added ability to select color type for Single View and Animation renders in MicroStation.
  • Changed unhandled modal dialogs to generate an error after 60 seconds of being open.
  • Added Print operation to MicroStation.
  • Added ability to specify a SM file that isn’t currently the one in use.
  • Fixed some case sensitivity issues.
  • Added ability to export Flat (references merged) DGNs.
  • Improved error handling.
  • Added cancel button to MicroStation integrated submitter and fixed tab ordering.
  • Added path mapping for the output path.

Nuke Improvements

  • Fixed a bug when executing TCL in a nuke write node to get its output file name.
  • The integrated submitter now properly detects if Gizmos are selected when submitting the selected write nodes only.

Rhino Improvements

  • Tweaked Tile Rendering labels in the submitter, and added a label that explains that tile rendering is disabled when submitting from the Monitor.

RIB Improvements

  • The RIB plugin no longer fails 3delight renders when they print “error reporting” to stdout.

VRay Spawner Improvements

  • Monitor submitter now hides the port setting if it isn’t applicable for the selected application.
  • Fixed/Updated various 3dsMax VRay DBR port configuration settings.

VRED Improvements

  • Confirmed that VRED plugin works with VredServerNode executable.
  • Updated VRED plugin to add popup ignorers to handle using the VredServerNode.

ftrack Improvements

  • If there is only one output file, Deadline now creates the default “main” component instead of “Deadline_Output_0”.
  • Upgraded the ftrack API.

Google Cloud Improvements

  • Removed unnecessary deletion of disks in TerminateInstances because all instances the Balancer starts have autodelete on.
  • Added regions that were missing.
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