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    6.6-0 FEATURES AND FIXES
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    New features 
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    ==== CL 12729 ====
    @NEW: add smartShare parameters to Supervisor config dialog

    ==== CL 12771 ====
    @NEW: add support for Adobe's CC <year> naming scheme, eg. "CC 2014"

    ==== CL 12592 ====
    @NEW: add support for Autodesk 2015 - Maya
    @NEW: includes submission interface for new 'maya hardware renderer 2' for rendering bifrost simulations
    @NEW: includes new options for the mentalray renderer

    ==== CL 12591 ====
    @NEW: add support for Autodesk 2015 - 3dsMax

    ==== CL 12590 ====
    @NEW: add support for Autodesk 2015 - XSI

    ==== CL 12575 ====
    @NEW: Add job context menu item for copying ID's of selected jobs to the clipboard

    ==== CL 12571 ====
    @NEW: supervisor and worker stop/start/enable/disable menu items only enabled for root user on linux

    ==== CL 12558 ====
    @NEW: scheduled locking can optionally purge jobs when locking
    @NEW: Windows watchdog locking can optionally purge jobs when locking
    @NEW: Windows watchdog locking timeout value can be user-defined

    ==== CL 12569 ====
    @NEW:Support for Ubuntu

    ==== CL 12564 ====
    @NEW: add render thread control group to Nuke LoadOnce submission UI

    ==== CL 12605 ====
    @NEW: add additional messages to regex_errors for nuke cmdline and loadOnce jobs

    ==== CL 12483 ====
    @NEW: add 'ip address' column to instance list in job view

    ==== CL 12430 ====
    @NEW: expose 'shove' operation in job context menu, only enabled if user has Qube admin privilege

    ==== CL 12310 ====
    @NEW: add support for new 'exiting' status

    ==== CL 12271 ====
    @NEW: add 'retrying' and 'failing' pseudo-states for running jobs that have
    either failed or running frames that have been automatically retried

    ==== CL 12213 ====
    @NEW:expose frame/subjob timeout, retry, etc in modify dialog

    ==== CL 12145 ====
    @NEW: add support for Arnold to maya BatchRender submissions, supports outputPaths

    ==== CL 12136 ====
    @NEW: a jobytpe for Modo which uses a "cmdrange-like" behavior, writes out a
    modo command-file for each agenda item and redirects that file into the modo_cl
    executable. Support single-frame, chunking, and frame partitions

    ==== CL 12004 ====
    @NEW: add support for remote worker commands (startup/shutdown/sleep/wake) via
    a customer's pre-existing IPMI framework

    ==== CL 12003 ====
    @NEW: "Browse" buttons for reservations should show global options

    ==== CL 11995 ====
    @NEW: Add db data integrity checks to WV->Admin menu, log progress and results to a floating window

    ==== CL 11966 ====
    @NEW: add support for Arnold standalone rendering using SolidAngle's 'kick' utility
    @NEW: show rendered output from Arnold renders in Maya

    ==== CL 11939 ====
    @NEW:Add "block until <time>" field to simpleCmd


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    Fixes 
    ========================= 
    ==== CL 12458 ====
    @FIX: regex_* fields missing from pyCmdline & pyCmdrange submission UI's.

    ==== CL 12531 ====
    @FIX: speed up data aggregation for global resource charting, 900,000 record
    test was reduced from 4 minutes to 12 seconds.

    ==== CL 12533 ====
    @FIX: speed up data warehouse queries for Running and Pending charts
    @CHANGE: print record counts for data warehouse queries in log pane.

    ==== CL 12534 ====
    @FIX: AttributeError: 'GlobalResourceUsageQuery' object has no attribute
    'dataPeriodTablesExists', occurs when a only a single resource is selected to
    be charted

    ==== CL 12562 ====
    @FIX: OS choice control not visible in Nuke submission UI's execPathBuilder widget

    ==== CL 12564 ====
    @FIX: nuke thread count should update when 'slots = threads' control is
    checked, not just when slot/thread count is changed

    ==== CL 12566 ====
    @FIX: failure when backing up or creating a new version of a config file should
    raise an error dialog, rather than just print the error to the WV logPane.

    ==== CL 12571 ====
    @FIX: support Ubuntu use of update-rc.d to control supevisor and worker daemons

    ==== CL 12676 ====
    @FIX: "IndexError: list index out of range" during the parsing of a job log, crashes requestQueue

    ==== CL 12680 ====
    @FIX: 'KeyError' when the job dependency graph is enabled and refreshing
    jobList with a job selected which has a dependent job which is no longer in
    Qube.

    ==== CL 12682 ====
    @FIX: 'KeyError' when the job dependency graph is enabled and refreshing
    jobList with a job selected which has a dependent job which is no longer in
    Qube.

    ==== CL 12697 ====
    @FIX: Qube Worker service erroneously detected as running on OS X due to Chrome
    having a process with "--type=worker" argument

    @FIX: Qube Worker service can't start on OS X unless it's also set to auto-start

    ==== CL 12706 ====
    @FIX: catch another case of "IndexError: list index out of range" during the parsing of a job log, crashes requestQueue


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    Changes in behavior 
    =========================
    ==== CL 12474 ====
    @CHANGE: update pyNuke jobtype backend to use new pythonChild framework that runs on all 3 platforms
    @CHANGE: update pyNuke frontend, add 'thread count' and license expiry messages to regex_highlights

    ==== CL 12507 ====
    @CHANGE: set displayed length limit for both job and instance logs to 30MB
    ZD: 11075

    ==== CL 12543 ====
    @CHANGE: All values for file and directory controls in submitted SimpleCmd jobs
    (cmdline, cmdrange, pyCmdline, pyCmdrange & all jobs with SimpleCmdType set in
    package) are now wrapped in QB_CONVERT_PATH()

    ==== CL 12539 ====
    @CHANGE: upgrade WX version on Windows from 2.8.11.0 -> 2.9.5.0

    ==== CL 12558 ====
    @CHANGE: "Scheduled locking" now locks all slots
    @CHANGE: 'Windows Watchdog locking" now locks all slots

    ==== CL 12651 ====
    @CHANGE: mxi cleanup operation deletes all but the target (merged) .mxi, uses a (required) external script

    ==== CL 12652 ====
    @CHANGE: if bit depth specified in Maxwell render job, pass this bit depth value to the mximerge job

    ==== CL 12703 ====
    @CHANGE: remove all references to 'expand' job flag, job expansion is replaced by new smartShare feature

    ==== CL 12706 ====
    @CHANGE: suppress printing of "Checking for uniqueness", move to debug logging level

    ==== CL 12729 ====
    @CHANGE: removed deprecated supervisor_flag "stub_optimize" from the list of presented choices
    @CHANGE: group supervisor config params in config dialog into functional groups; commonly-changed,
    smartShare, user limits, email, advanced (uncommon), etc

    ==== CL 12777 ====
    @CHANGE: 'Clear Defaults' now saves the prefs to disk automatically, but doesn't reset or close the
    current submission UI

    ==== CL 12386 ====
    @CHANGE: rename AfterEffects in-app menu item from 'Submit Job From File' to
    'Submit From JobArchive' for clarity

    ==== CL 12195 ====
    @CHANGE: On Windows, disable "Install/Update license" if not admin-equiv