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Release Notes

Buildcat 0.5.0 - December 9th, 2022

  • Added certificate-info command to show certificate file details.

  • Added workers command to start more than one worker at a time.

  • Updated houdini-render-ifd command can submit multiple jobs at once.

  • Set a reasonable default timeout for the houdini-render-ifd command.

  • Added timeout arguments for houdini-render-hip, modo-render, and redshift-render commands.

  • Allow newer Redis versions.

  • Switched to pyproject.toml and flit for packaging.

Buildcat 0.4.1 - October 22nd, 2021

  • Updated the way we collect code coverage data.

  • Switched from Zulip to Github Discussions for support.

Buildcat 0.4.0 - October 14th, 2021

  • Removed DCC-specific files from the install.

  • Improved consistency among subcommand arguments.

  • Added subcommands to secure communication channels with TLS.

  • Allow clients to contact the server using a nonstandard port.

  • Organized and streamlined the documentation.

  • Switched from Travis-CI to Github Actions for continuous integration.

  • Buildcat server can serialize tasks to an arbitrary storage path.

  • Added an option to run workers without forking, for Windows.

  • Added an integration to render Houdini .ifd files.

  • Added support for rendering arbitrary collections of frames and frame ranges from a Houdini .hip file.

  • Added an option to specify the maximum number of jobs executed by a worker.

Buildcat 0.3.0 - March 30th, 2021

  • Create a single command-line client with subcommands for starting the server, starting workers, and submitting jobs.

  • Added integrations for Modo and Redshift.

  • Removed support for Python 2 in the Buildcat module.

  • Removed support for Windows, use WSL instead.

  • Eliminated the need for custom worker code, so we can use vanilla RQ workers instead.

  • Completely reorganized and harmonized behavior among integrations.

  • Added a command to estimate when a queue will be empty.

  • Explicitly use pickle protocol 2 for serialization, so (non-Buildcat) Python 2 clients can submit jobs.

Buildcat 0.2.0 - July 8th, 2019

  • Greatly expanded documentation.

  • Introduced support for multiple render queues in Houdini.

  • Added support for rendering multiple frames at a time from DOP ROPs in Houdini.

  • Improved error checking and troubleshooting messages in Houdini.

  • Support rendering with step sizes other than one in Houdini.

Buildcat 0.1.0 - March 20th, 2019

  • Initial release, including basic Houdini integration.

Buildcat 0.0.1 - May 18th, 2018

  • Setting up the project.