IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR ALL USERS:
Please read the Deadline 8.1 Licensing and Compatibility thread for important information regarding Deadline 8.1: forums.thinkboxsoftware.com/vie … 09&t=14476
NOTICE OF KNOWN BUG WITH AUTO-UPGRADE:
There is also a known bug when auto-upgrading from a version older than 8.1.4.6 – the auto-upgrade will fail to set execute permissions on the newly-added “deadlinesandbox” shell script on Linux/Mac OS. For this reason, we recommend using the Client installers to upgrade to this revision from versions older than 8.1.4.6, or be sure to manually add execute permissions to that script after the auto-upgrade.
Full release notes can be found in the Deadline 8.1 documentation (see Downloads below).
What’s new in Deadline 8.1.5.3 (Beta 6)
This release includes added support for Silhouette, as well as several miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements. This build also includes all the fixes made to Deadline 8.0, up to (and including) version 8.0.10.4.
Application Improvements General Improvements
When sending out WOL packets to multiple machines, the list of end points will now only be retrieved once to improve performance.
Updated several spots in Deadline Client applications to properly clean up temporary files.
Fixed Plugin Configuration settings to properly invalidate across applications when changed.
Monitor Improvements
Made minor improvements to the Event Plugin configuration form.
Slave Improvements
Fixed an issue where the Plugin would reload unnecessarily between tasks if the Repository contained a global Pre-load script applicable to that Plugin.
Fixed an issue where Auxiliary Files for a Job would be downloaded to the wrong location if connected through a proxy server.
Fixed an issue where synchronizing Auxiliary Files would always report that auxiliary files had changed (causing a Plugin reload) even if they hadn’t.
When a Plugin reloads because Auxiliary Files have been modified, the message printed to the Slave log will now indicate which files were changed.
API Improvements Embedded Python API
Added additional path mapping override functions to RepositoryUtils and PathMappingUtils.
Integration Improvements 3ds Max
Updated several log messages to be more consistent.
Fixed a couple render exceptions to be raised properly.
Added support to ignore V-Ray Split Channels at submission time if V-Ray “Memory frame buffer” is disabled.
Fixed edge case where V-Ray RAW image file was not getting padding set for the Draft Tile assembly job final output path.
Command Script
Fixed a couple bugs when quoting shell execution.
Fixed a bug that was replacing all ‘’ in the command lines with ‘/’ on Linux and Mac.
Fixed a bug that prevented running argument-less command lines with shell execution turned off.
Episode
Overhauled Episode submission script and Plugin.
Maya
Fixed a bug in the Maya plugin that caused GPU affinity overrides to be ignored.
Added the ability to submit referenced render layers in Maya when submitting all render layers.
Octane
Added support for multiple frames in one file (.orbx).
Silhouette
Added support for Silhouette.
Softimage
Fixed an issue introduced with the recent migration of Pipeline Tools to our common interface.