Rush 102.42a6 was released today -- upgrade is Free to all customers.
Just contact me directly via email, erco [at] seriss.com from your
business email address, and I'll supply you with the download info
for the upgrade.
Feature highlights (with pretty pictures):
http://www.seriss.com/rush-current/features/
Detailed release notes (dry descriptions/no pretty pictures):
http://www.seriss.com/rush-current/rush/release-notes.html#102.42a6
Outstanding fixes/features:
o rush -ljf bug that caused extra daemons on unix repaired
o vfork() now used (unix) to prevent memory overhead on large job servers
Useful for /large/ facilities with busy unix based job servers.
o irush now warns about license expirations
o 'rush -lah' shows warnings if there are too many hosts in the rush/etc/hosts file
o Irush has resizable columns -- officially released
(some of you have this already from previous updates or beta tests)
o Submit-maya6 has some new features and detailed docs.
o Floating point frame rendering
o You can now mix Batch Frames and frame increments
o RenderMan rendering
o Improvements for MentalRay Standalone rendering with Batching
o "Help" button (at bottom of submit-maya6 form) has details on how
to use the multiple modes of submit-maya6.
o submit-shake-quicktime now supports many new codecs, thanks to submitted
data from one of the new Rush evalers.
** LINUX/OSX USERS **
The 'rush -ljf' fix is an *important fix* for those of you have
unix/osx machines as job servers, and use automated scripts for gathering
data using 'rush -ljf'. This bug caused multiple rushd daemons to appear
if the jobid argument to 'rush -ljf' no longer exists. The daemons would then
fight each other over network messages, causing intermittent 'unknown jobid'
responses when viewing jobs, and/or other oddities.
Those of you sometimes noticing frames restarting themselves, or getting
intermittent responses of 'unknown jobid' for your jobs should take this update
to solve the problem.
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