Version 9.0.0-a6

IECore

• Multithreaded PointSmoothSkinningOp
• Added ExternalProcedural object type
• Added HasBaseType type trait
• Added boost::hash compatibility for MurmurHash

IECoreRI

• Added support for DynamicLoad and DelayedReadArchive procedurals

IECoreArnold

• Added support for delayed load DSO and .ass procedurals

9.0.0-a5

IECore

• LinkedScene::hash now takes extra children at links into account

IECoreRI

• Added support for RiFrame blocks in IECoreRI::Renderer.

IECoreMaya

• Renamed IECoreMaya::MayaScene to IECoreMaya::LiveScene

IECoreHoudini

• Renamed IECoreHoudini::HoudiniScene to IECoreHoudini::LiveScene

9.0.0-a4

IECore

• Bug fix in StreamIndexedIO that was causing sporadic crashes when loading SceneCaches during procedural expansion.
• Fixed some minor bounding box bugs in IECore.SceneCache
• Child bounds can now dilate bounds explicitly specified using IECore.SceneCache.writeBound()
• IECore.LinkedScene now supports extra children at link locations
• Fixed TransformOp double transform bug

Version 8.5.2

IECore

• Prevented TransformOp from double transforming data (when 2 PrimitiveVariables point to the same data).

Version 9.0.0-a3

IECore

• Added SceneInterface::hash() method.
• Improved ConfigLoader.
  • Now executes files within the same directory in alphabetical order.
  • Added subdirectory argument.
  • Env var accepted in place of search path.

9.0.0-a2

IECore

• Made RefCounted bindings release the GIL during C++ destruction.
• Changed RefCounted base class binding to use GILReleasePtr too.
• Replaced IECore::IntrusivePtr with boost::intrusive_ptr.
• Removed staticPointerCast, constPointerCast and dynamicPointerCast.
• Fixed crash in MeshMergeOp.
• Fixed mutex acquisition in LRUCache::updateListPosition().
• PointSmoothSkinningOp handles faceVarying normals and added refIndices parameter
• Changed DespatchedTypedData DataPtr & argument to Data *
• Fixed LRUCache hangs.
• Simplified RefCounted bindings.
• Fixed LRUCache crashes where clear() was called concurrently with get().

IECorePython

• Added IECorePython::CastToIntrusivePtr.

IECoreMaya

• MayaScene bindings now catch boost python exceptions

IECoreGL

• Removed deprecated IECoreGL::Selector::loadIDShader() method.
• Added IECoreGL::Selector::postProjectionMatrix() method.

IECoreRI

• Added support for camera edits to IECoreRI::Renderer.
• Added support for motion blurred cameras to IECoreRI::Renderer.
• Added support for multiple cameras to IECoreRI::Renderer.
• Removed "transform" parameter from IECoreRI::Renderer::camera().
• Removed support for hider parameters in IECoreRI::Renderer::camera(). …
• IECoreRI now built for all python versions
• added M44dData attribute support to IECoreRI::Renderer

IECoreAlembic

• Added support for the Ogawa backend into IECoreAlembic.

8.5.1

IECore

• PointSmoothSkinningOp handles faceVarying normals and added refIndics parameter
• FromMayaMeshConverter checks if we need to convert st and extraST before doing it.

IECoreRI

• IECoreRI::Renderer supports M44d attributes

9.0.0-a1

IECore

• Added from-python conversion of RunTimeTypedClass to IECore::TypeId
• Removed implicit surface functionality
• Removed BGEO and BIN readers/writers.
• Removed IFFHairReader.
• Fixed EXRImageReader canRead to accept scanline images.
• Improved speed of InternedString( int64_t ).
• Significantly optimised LRUCache performance.

IECoreMaya

• Fixed MayaScene for reading scene:visible and custom attributes at the root

Version 8.5.0

IECore

• Added python binding for RefCounted::refCount()
• Fixed default ObjectPool for larger sizes

IECoreRI

• Changed SHWDeepImageReader to convert depth to standard Z (distance from eye plane), instead of spherical distance from the near clip.
• Changed SHWDeepImageWriter to convert back to spherical distance from the near clip, assuming the incoming DeepPixels represent distance from eye plane.

IECoreHoudini

• Fixed bug in SceneCache ROP when re-rooting flattened geo with errors

Version 8.4.7

IECore

• IECore.ls supports ambiguous padding when the sequence is not a regular frame range.
• IECore::frameListFromList correctly handles reverse order lists.