Buildcat 0.5.0

• Added certificate-info command to show certificate file details.
• Added workers command to start more than one worker at a time.
• Updated houdini-render-ifd command can submit multiple jobs at once.
• Set a reasonable default timeout for the houdini-render-ifd command.
• Added timeout arguments for houdini-render-hip, modo-render, and redshift-render commands.
• Allow newer Redis versions.
• Switched to pyproject.toml and flit for packaging.

Buildcat 0.4.1

• Updated the way we collect code coverage data.
• Switched from Zulip to Github Discussions for support.

Buildcat 0.4.0

• Removed DCC-specific files from the install.
• Improved consistency among subcommand arguments.
• Added subcommands to secure communication channels with TLS.
• Allow clients to contact the server using a nonstandard port.
• Organized and streamlined the documentation.
• Switched from Travis-CI to Github Actions for continuous integration.
• Buildcat server can serialize tasks to an arbitrary storage path.
• Added an option to run workers without forking, for Windows.
• Added an integration to render Houdini .ifd files.
• Added support for rendering arbitrary collections of frames and frame ranges from a Houdini .hip file.
• Added an option to specify the maximum number of jobs executed by a worker.

Buildcat 0.3.0

• Create a single command-line client with subcommands for starting the server, starting workers, and submitting jobs.
• Added integrations for Modo and Redshift.
• Removed support for Python 2 in the Buildcat module.
• Removed support for Windows, use WSL instead.
• Eliminated the need for custom worker code, so we can use vanilla RQ workers instead.
• Completely reorganized and harmonized behavior among integrations.
• Added a command to estimate when a queue will be empty.
• Explicitly use pickle protocol 2 for serialization, so (non-Buildcat) Python 2 clients can submit jobs.

Buildcat 0.2.0

• Greatly expanded documentation.
• Introduced support for multiple render queues in Houdini.
• Added support for rendering multiple frames at a time from DOP ROPs in Houdini.
• Improved error checking and troubleshooting messages in Houdini.
• Support rendering with step sizes other than one in Houdini.

Buildcat 0.1.0

• Initial release, with basic Houdini integration.