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.