IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR ALL USERS:
Please read the Deadline 7.1 Licensing and Compatibility thread for important information regarding Deadline 7.1:
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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/qea6 … kzt2cp77hc
Documentation: thinkboxsoftware.box.com/s/4tvb … qlyjav53l7
What’s New In Deadline 7.1.1.0 (Release Candidate 1)
This is a patch release for Deadline 7.1 that fixes a few important bugs that were discovered shortly after Deadline 7.1 was released.
Note that a 7.1 license is still required to run this version. If you have a license for Deadline 7.0 or earlier, you will need an updated license. In addition, the version of Draft that ships with Deadline 7.1 needs a new 1.3 license. If you have a license for Draft 1.2 or earlier, you will need an updated license.
Here are the highlighted changes.
General Improvements
- Added support for using colons in Deadline’s frame list formatting style. For example, a start and end frame can be specified as 1:10, or a start and end frame with a step of 2 can be specified as 1:10:2
Installer Improvements
- When running the installer with the --help option, the Repository installer no longer prints out “unknown variable mongodefaultport” as the default port for dbListeningPort.
- The Repository installer no longer overwrites the .ini files in the 3dsmax integrated submitter folder if they already exist.
- The correct version of the Microstation submitter is now shipped with the Repository installer (which includes the option to convert paths to UNC).
- The After Effects submitter installer now installs the script to the correct location on OSX, and a README is shown at the end that explains how to modify the AE preferences in order to run the script.
Monitor Improvements
- Significantly improved the performance of the Manage Pools and Manage Groups dialogs when manipulating Pools/Groups for multiple slaves.
- Fixed a bug in the job properties dialog that prevented you from setting a job’s auto-cleanup override to Archive after it has been set to Delete.
- Cleaned up the exception messages printed in the results box when testing thermal sensors in the Monitor.
- When adding a new thermal sensor, an error message now pops up if the sensor OID doesn’t start with 1.3, instead of displaying the exception in the results box.
- If the CheckTemeratureSensors.py script throws an error when getting the temperature from a sensor, it now writes that error in the sensor’s text box instead of dumping a stack trace to the console.
Slave Improvements
- When running a process with ‘su’ on Linux and Mac OS X, the executable and arguments are now separated with a space.
Pulse Improvements
- Fixed a bug in Pulse that prevented it from using the port override in the Pulse settings.
Scripting Improvements
- Added StdoutRedirection property to the ManagedProcess class. It defaults to True, but if set to False, Deadline will not capture any stdout from the process.
- Added AsynchronousStdout property to the ManagedProcess class. It defaults to True, but if set to False, Deadline will use a synchronous approach to capture stdout from the process. Note that this property is ignored on Windows.
3ds Max Improvements
- The Repository installer no longer overwrites the .ini files in the 3dsmax integrated submitter folder if they already exist
- Added popup ignorers to the 3dsCmd plugin.
- Fixed a bug that prevented RPManager from loading the Deadline submission script for 3dsmax.
- Fixed a bug that prevented RPManager from loading the correct SMTD defaults.
After Effects Improvements
- The After Effects submitter installer now installs the script to the correct location on OSX, and a README is shown at the end that explains how to modify the AE preferences in order to run the script.
Corona Improvements
- Added popup ignorers to the CoronaDR plugin.
Hiero Improvements
- Added support for Nuke 9.x to the Hiero submitter.
Houdini Improvements
- Fixed a bug that prevented the submission of multiple ROPs at the same from the integrated Houdini submitter. The error occurred when trying to submit All ROPs or Selected ROPs.
Microstation Improvements
- The correct version of the Microstation submitter is now shipped with the Repository installer (which includes the option to convert paths to UNC).
modo Improvements
- The integrated submitter now properly handles the tag in output paths.
- Multiple pass groups can now be submitted when doing Tile rendering.
- Fixed a bunch of issues when doing Tile rendering with multiple pass groups.
Nuke Improvements
- The Nuke plugin now properly ignores all errors when “Continue On Error” is enabled in the submission options.
VRED Improvements
- Added warning message to VRED and VREDCluster plugins when the slave is running as a service.