IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR ALL USERS:
Please read the Deadline 8.0 Licensing and Compatibility thread for important information regarding Deadline 8.0:
forums.thinkboxsoftware.com/vie … 09&t=13897
Full release notes for Deadline 8.0 can be found in the Deadline 8.0 documentation (see Downloads below).
Downloads
Installers and Documentation: thinkboxsoftware.box.com/s/grcu … exhch3n10z
What’s New In Deadline 8.0.0.47 (Beta 6)
This release includes a bunch of bug fixes and improvements.
General Improvements
-Fixed an issue where some popup windows would hide behind the application that called them and become unreachable.
Cloud Plugin Improvements
-Added Preemptible Instance to the Google Plugin.
-Added Path Mapping to the Google Plugin.
-Added Path Mapping to the Azure Plugin certificate path.
Event Improvements
-Removed unnecceary “SupportedCallbacks” property from event plugins.
-Fixed a bug where an event plugin that did not specify the “State” property would throw exceptions.
Installer Improvements
-Fixed a bug where the OSX installer was not installing Deadline correctly.
-Fixed a bug where the Linux Kernel warning would appear when the Linux Kernel version was newer than the minimum supported version.
-Windows repository installer now creates Windows Firewall rules for MongoDB.
-The repository installer now enables listening on IPv6 in the mongo database configuration.
Launcher Improvements
-Auto-upgrading now works when connected to a Proxy Server.
-Auto-upgrade now properly closes the Balancer and Proxy Server.
Monitor Improvements
-Fixed a bug where custom reports’ pie charts would redraw too often.
-Add ability to expand “Other” pie slice in custom reports’ pie charts.
-Fixed a bug where setting the value of a custom farm report’s graph to a time value threw an exception.
-Fixed a bug where the “Enable Timeouts For Pre/Post Job Scripts” checkbox in Job Properties -> Job Timeout form could not be unchecked.
-Fixed a bug where “Use Frame Timeouts” checkbox in Job Properties -> Job Timeout form was not saving the result.
-Renamed “Image Size” columns to “Output File Size”.
-Fixed a bug where the Local Slave Controls was throwing exceptions.
-Fixed a bug where the Color Scheme was not being respected by the monitor panels.
Proxy Server Improvements
-Fixed a bug where Proxy Server would throw a stack overflow exception when running for too long.
-Fixed a bug where Proxy Server was not responding to user input from the command line.
-Fixed a broken endpoint for AddJobHistoryEntries.
Pulse Improvements
-Fixed a bug where Primary Pulse was always being set to true when pulse settings were being saved.
-Fixed a bug where old Power Management groups would throw an exception.
Slave Improvements
-Fixed a bug where CPU clock values where being reported incorrectly.
Web Service Improvements
-Fixed a bug where Web Service was not responding to user input from the command line.
3dsMax Improvements
-Fixed “CopyImsq.py” creation function.
-NIM support added to Integrated Submitter.
-Added checkbox to close the submitter after submitting a job.
Draft Improvements
-Quick Draft options added to Monitor Draft Submitters.
-Distributed encoding added to Quick Draft.
Harmony Improvements
-Added support for Toon Boom Animation Harmony (monitor and integrated submitters).
Maxwell Improvements
-Added ability to set Maxwell root environment variable.
-Added support for exporting multi-word filenames in Maya.
Maya Improvements
-Modified output paths to match Maya’s output prefix handling in the Integrated Submitter.
-Updated Submit Maya to deadline to default the Maxwell Export filename if it is not set to a value in the scene.
-Added redshift stdout handlers to the MayaBatch and MayaCmd plugins.
-Added checkbox to close the submitter after submitting a job.
Realflow Improvements
-Added Script and Graph flags to Realflow.
Rhino Improvements
-Added checkbox to close the submitter after submitting a job.
Shotgun Improvements
-Added the “created_by” field to Shotgun Event.