Release Notes
==================================

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**5.2.4** :

- Fixed crash when using "Add to BRQ" from Blender
- Fixed infinite loading and queue clearing issues
- Fixed Python execution when expression is wrapped in a function
- Fixed failure to load if Cycles add-on is disabled
- Fixed reorder / selection UI issues
- Always display "computed" output path with frame number and extension
- Improved handling of paused items when quitting the app (now resumes to remaining frames on startup)
- Improved output path display
- Added automatic clearing of render logs when deleting item/queue

**5.2.3** :

- Fixed bug that makes all item status revert to "ready" if BRQ or computer is restarted, now items will keep their last status (ie "Done", "Failed", "Stopped"...)

**5.2.2** :

- Added "Don't ask again" option to the "install the BRQ add-on" popup

**5.2.1** :

- Adding frame number to output filename when rendering a single image when frame number token is used (ie ``####``) in the output path

**5.2.0** :

- Fixed possible bug on Cycles device attribute retrieval for some Blender versions
- Fixed item reloading that corrupts queues when upgrading BRQ or blender

**5.1.9** :

- Dropdown list are now sorted (Scene, Camera, View Layer)
- Added tag feature to mark items with color tags
- Added resolution scale setting in order to zomm in/out UI 

**5.1.8** :

- Fixed render never completes bug when outputing to video format  

**5.1.7** :

- Added Octane support
- Fixed alpha missing bug for FFmpeg alpha compatible video formats

**5.1.6** :

- Added preview image persistance even after rendering is done
- Added "Resume" option to resume stopped renderings from last rendered frame
- Max Retry attemps counter set to 100 instead of 10
- Retry attemps resume from last rendered frame

**5.1.5** :

- Fixed Video sequencer rendering bug (stops at frame 1)

**5.1.4** :

- Fixed wrong color space for OpenEXR output

**5.1.3** :

- Fixed Cycles multi GPUs selection bug

**5.1.2** :

- Fixed render preview for Blender 5.x
- Fixed update of FFmpeg properties
- Added invalid frame range tooltip

**5.1.1** :

- Fixed bug caused by third party addons that override Blender's stdout logs

**5.1.0** :

- Added some Wildcards to the list
- Limited the number of concurent blend file loading
- Multiple Queues Import / Export

**5.0.0** :

- Added compatibility with Blender 5.0
- Updated Blender File Output Template Variables (Wildcards) to comply to Blender's
- Preview image is now full res and zoomable
- Multiple queue managment + Import / Export queue files
- Added Output presets management, save/load presets for Engine & Format settings
- Multiple items editing simultaneously
- Added "Factory startup" flag option to skip user preferences & add-ons loading
- Added render crash retry attemps counter
- Bug fixing and improvements


**4.9.0** :

- Added compatibility with CyclesHair render engine (3d Hair Brush add-on)
- Fix bug on preview image that causes empty render iamge
- Fix bug when pausing render multiple times
- Fix bug on Cycles render device list and added a refresh button
- Improved ``DETECT LATEST BLENDER VERSION`` speed
- Fix bug on progress information when ``overwrite`` is checked for image sequences rendering
- Stripping long texts on UI (Scene/camera/viewlayer names)

**4.8.9** :

- Monitoring mobile app
- Camera selection
- ViewLayer selection
- Added shortcuts
- Preview image for all output format
- Cycles GPU device selection
- BRQ Blender add-on
- Auto Blender install detection
- Added Turbo Render compatibility
- Fixed compatibility with faulty third party add-ons
- Fix VSE Scene strip rendering

**3.5.3** :

- Added compatibility with CyclesHair render engine (3d Hair Brush add-on)
- Fix bug on preview image that causes empty render iamge
- Fix bug when pausing render multiple times
- Fix bug on Cycles render device list and added a refresh button
- Improved ``DETECT LATEST BLENDER VERSION`` speed
- Fix bug on progress information when ``overwrite`` is checked for image sequences rendering
- Stripping long texts on UI (Scene/camera/viewlayer names)

**3.5.2** :

- Added shortcuts
- Preview image for all output format
- Cycles GPU device selection
- BRQ Blender add-on
- Auto Blender install detection
- Added Turbo Render compatibility
- Fixed compatibility with faulty third party add-ons
- Fix VSE Scene strip rendering

**3.0.0** :
    
- Added auto shutdown computer option when queue completed
- Added checkbox to show blender error messages (now disabled by default)
- Fixes freeze when rendering large image sequence
    
**2.0.8** :
     
- Fixes blender's exe path error on startup on windows fresh install

**2.0.6** :
    
- Slightly rendering speed improvement with Cycles on the GPU on Windows
- Better handling of Blender rendering errors
- Adds Render status message popover on each rendering job
- Fixes bug on last screenshot when queue finished rendering
- Fixes bug on list reorder
- Fixes bug on settings on initial startup
    
**1.0.3** :
    
- Fixes "Can't retrieve blender scenes" error
- Fixes cloud progress infos not updating when window is hidden