Release date: April 19, 2022

Welcome to RenderMan for Blender 24.4!

RenderMan for Blender 24.4 brings some new functionality to artists, as well as several bug fixes. 

Blender Builds Supported

Features:

• Live stats are now enabled by default in the preferences.
• Setting the enviroment variable, RFB_BATCH_NO_PROGRESS, will disable progress printing during batch rendering via Blender.

Bug Fixes:

• Fix issue with depth of field not matching between viewport renders and preview renders
• Fix issue where rotating dome lights would cause portal lights to rotate on the wrong axis.
• An issue where textures in the texture manager would fail when materials/nodes were renamed has been addressed.
• Fix issue where light filters were still being drawn in the viewport when they were deleted.
• Holdouts should now render correctly when doing viewport renders
• Lights are correctly hidden when the viewports overlays has been disabled
• Fix an issue with progress not displaying correctly when rendering to "it". 

NOTE: Blender 3.0 and 3.1 is not officially supported.