Rush 102.42a7 is a minor maintenance release; minor features + fixes
to 102.42a6. The upgrade is *free* to all customers.
If you're already at 102.42a6, don't feel motivated to upgrade unless
you see a feature or fix you really need.
But if you are running a release older than 102.42a6, you should consider
upgrading, as a6/a7 have many good features/fixes over older releases.
IRUSH FEATURE HIGHLIGHTS IN A7
The most interesting features in 102.42a7 are in irush:
o Switching jobs in irush now updates the Irush title bar with the job title.
o Added 'Upper:AllCpus' option to the 'Edit Hotkeys' menu
This way one can make hotkeys for 'rush -lac' that includes color-coded reports.
o Added ability for 'Hotkeys' to be 'repeatable'.
You can just hit 'REP', then hit one of the pre-programmed hotkeys
or an Irush|Hotkey menu item, and it will repeat that operation.
o Enabled better autodetection when new columns are added to reports.
Helps custom generated reports work as expected as 'hotkey' scripts.
o Control buttons now remain a fixed size during irush window resizing.
(Replaced Fl_Group with FixedSizeGroup)
MAYA SUBMIT SCRIPT NAMING CHANGE IN A7
In 102.42a7, the newer Maya submit script will now always be called 'submit-maya'.
The older 'mayabatch' style script has been demoted to 'submit-maya-old'.
The name changes are simple:
The old style 'mayabatch' script has been renamed to 'submit-maya-old'.
(it used to be called submit-maya)
The new style 'Render -r [sw|mr]' script is now called 'submit-maya'.
(it used to be called submit-maya6)
So basically the newest Maya script is 'submit-maya'.
FIXES IN A7
Fixes in this version are nothing critical to most users.
See the release notes for specifics.
Customers with large networks of linux machines (>100 machines)
may want to upgrade a6 to a7 for an optimizations added to prevent
per-frame rendering DNS lookups.
MIXING RELEASES
If you are already running a 102.42* release, you can mix this release
with your existing 102.42* version for testing purposes; the 102.42* series
are all network inter-compatible.
Only if you have a release older than 102.42 (eg. 102.41 or 102.40..)
is it an issue to mix versions.
HOW TO UPGRADE
To upgrade to 102.42a7, you can 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.
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