Houdini Main Changelogs

18.5.127

Fixed bug that caused CHANGEPRODUCT entitlements to not be able to be installed through hkey and sesictrl.

Wed. February 19, 2020
18.5.126

Provide better error messages when a client does not have access to the license server.

Tue. February 18, 2020
18.5.125

Updated the access denied licensing error so that its more clear what likely went wrong with the request.

Mon. February 17, 2020
18.5.125

Fixed a bug where changing the server list caused hserver to leave the api request around longer then it needed to.

Mon. February 17, 2020
18.5.119

Fixes bugs where the cookie store was not being updated properly causing log in license users to delete their cookie store to fix inconsistencies.

Tue. February 11, 2020
18.5.118

Add the LicenseServerName option to the Windows and Linux installers.

Mon. February 10, 2020
18.5.115

Adds the ability to install the server key through sesictrl.

Fri. February 7, 2020
18.5.112

Fixes bug where http enabled servers (i.e. hserver and sesinetd) were not properly handling invalid http requests. This caused these servers to get into an infinite loop causing them to get up to 500%+ CPU usage.

Tue. February 4, 2020
18.5.110

Fixes bug where http(s) redirects were not being handled properly.

Sun. February 2, 2020
18.5.106

Update hservers log file to include the client ip, server ip and read/write mask when a read/write mask check fails.

Wed. January 29, 2020
18.5.98

Added the ability to use an API key for login based licensing instead of using session ids.

Tue. January 21, 2020
18.5.94

Remove Mantra Indie render resolution restrictions.

Fri. January 17, 2020
18.5.93

Added support for full URL parsing used for parsing connected license servers.

Thu. January 16, 2020
18.5.93

Removed all internal caching in hserver. When issuing http(s) api requests fallback to our legacy API when appropriate. This is instead of the client trying to decide which is the best communication protocol to use. Also added support for full URL parsing for connected license servers. All legacy API in hkey/sesictrl have been removed as well.

Thu. January 16, 2020
18.5.92

Bumped the required license server version to 18.0.287 for all clients (hserver, sesictrl, and hkey).

Wed. January 15, 2020
18.5.83

Created functions to determine CAPATH and CAINFO so that third party developers use the same logic sidefx curl uses when determining these locations.

Mon. January 6, 2020
18.5.83

Allow third party developers to use the same criteria sidefx curl uses to determine curls CAINFO and CAPATH.

Mon. January 6, 2020
18.5.80

Change houdini environment variable HOUDINI_LMINFO_VERBOSE back to 3. This is so that Windows users will see the expiring license list when starting houdini. Also added a note in the expiring license list pop-up dialog explaining how to change this behaviour if needed.

Fri. January 3, 2020
18.5.55

Hserver should no longer spin up to 100% CPU and stay there. Also added several quality of life improvements and bug fixes to hserver.

Mon. December 9, 2019
18.5.44

Fixes bug that caused indie users to drop down to non commercial when using karma.

Thu. November 28, 2019
18.5.28

Fixed a bug that caused hkey to crash on systems that used a very old opengl implementation. These systems will not be able to take advantage of third party authentication.

Tue. November 12, 2019
18.5.22

Provide a more detailed error message for licensing tools when using http(s) communication.

Wed. November 6, 2019
18.5.16

Fixed bug that caused licensing tools to incorrectly report permission errors.

Thu. October 31, 2019
18.5.15

Adds help information in houdini for licensing tools. The help is under the standalone applications section.

Wed. October 30, 2019
18.5.15

Added a couple of missing sesictrl commands from the help information.

Wed. October 30, 2019