Houdini Main Changelogs

18.5.469

Turning peak usage logging on by default. The interval is an hour and the default file is `<license dir>/sesinetd_peak_usage.bin`. Also turning logging on by default for sesinetd. The default path is `<houdini temp>/sesinetd.log`.

Mon. January 25, 2021
18.5.462

Add support for reading the new keystring format from license files.

Mon. January 18, 2021
18.5.450

Small change to how the license ip mask is validate in hserver and sesinetd.

Wed. January 6, 2021
18.5.429

Fixed a bug where the peak usage of a license could be slightly higher then it should be in some cases.

Wed. December 16, 2020
18.5.422

When running `sesictrl ping` the total and connect time is now displayed.

Wed. December 9, 2020
18.5.414

Changing the default read IP mask for sesinetd to *.*.*.* to allow all traffic by default.

Tue. December 1, 2020
18.5.406

Fixed a bug with license partitioning that was causing the empty group to rejected causing each license to be manually partitioned. Also added a new API in sesictrl to view the partitioned licenses (`sesictrl partition-info`).

Mon. November 23, 2020
18.5.400

Fixing a bug with the parsepeakuserlog.py that prevented exporting with xlsx.

Tue. November 17, 2020
18.5.400

Fixed a bug with the SQL backend for licensing where it would display an error message about the database being locked or busy.

Tue. November 17, 2020
18.5.396

Since some timezone shorthands have conflicting names the timezone offset is now added to tell which timezone the log was actually produced in.

Fri. November 13, 2020
18.5.389

Add a confirmation prompt in hkey before switching the license server list to sidefx.com (login licensing).

Fri. November 6, 2020
18.5.389

Fixing a crash when redeeming entitlements and hkey is not able to find the selected server in the current server list.

Fri. November 6, 2020
18.5.385

Fixed a bug that caused hserver to hold onto a license for longer then it should in some cases.

Mon. November 2, 2020
18.5.375

Lowering the severity level of some SQLITE error in the cookie store used by licensing (i.e. hkey).

Fri. October 23, 2020
18.5.374

Fixes karma licensing for indie users.

Thu. October 22, 2020
18.5.373

When selecting the new login-based licensing system in hkey redirect to the web browser to view the licensing portal. This is instead of changing the server listing directly in hkey.

Wed. October 21, 2020
18.5.368

Adds /ping route to sesinetd to ping the server without adding a body.

Fri. October 16, 2020
18.5.368

Fixed bug that caused Apprentice license activation to fail.

Fri. October 16, 2020
18.5.360

Adding excel-tab and unix as dialect choices for the usage log parser when exporting as csv.

Thu. October 8, 2020
18.5.357

Adding a new option to hserver to enable run with licensing behaviour directly from hserver. Instead of running core with -force-houdini-fx adding --features=enable-run-with to hserver will produce a similar behaviour. use FX if FX is already checked out instead of checking out an additional core license. Not only does this add proper run with support to core but to all licenses.

Mon. October 5, 2020
18.5.350

Fixed issues with network renders that took over 1 minute to complete. The servers timeout were being triggered causing the connections to drop the renders early.

Mon. September 28, 2020
18.5.346

Updating help url to the new url.

Thu. September 24, 2020
18.5.343

Include the client version when logging information to the license logs in sesinetd.

Mon. September 21, 2020
18.5.340

Adding support for grabbing the hserver version without including other information about the server through api calls.

Fri. September 18, 2020
18.5.339

When using license partitioning the client can specify which groups they want to be apart of. The only requirement is that the group exists but the client isnt required to be apart of that group. To add user groups to requests add `--user-group=""` to the command line of hserver or `userGroup=Beta` to the hserver ini file.

Thu. September 17, 2020