Please note that a new 2.2 license will be required to use this version. You can email Sales@thinkboxsoftware.com to request an updated license, or a 15 day eval. license if you are not on active support.
Multi-threaded loading is not new. What is new is that it is OFF by default, and the control is in your face on the Main Controls panel. Krakatoa 2.0 used to default to ON and the control to turn it off was under Preferences>System Preferences, so people did not know why their network was going down when 50+ slaves were trying to load at the same time
Now it is up to the artist to turn it on for fast iterative tests, and turn it off before Deadline rendering submission…