Metered Licensing

The release of Qube 6.9 includes a new option for expanding your render capacity, Qube Metered Licensing. Metered Licensing lets you burst to as many resources as you need while always prioritizing your existing paid Qube! licenses. It's billed monthly in arrears by the minute at a rate of $0.10 per hour for the total minutes used in that month.

Enable metered licensing for your site, set your own limits, and track your usage up to the last 15 minutes on our metered licensing portal at http://metered.pipelinefx.com

Cross-cluster job priorities

Now in Qube 6.9, a job can be set to have the same priority across all clusters. Prior to this release, a job could only be highest priority in its own cluster, and had to accept running at a reduced priority in other clusters.

New environment variables exposed during the execution of job instances and pre/postflights

QB_FRAME_PADDING

QB_PADDED_FRAME_NUMBER

QB_PADDED_FRAME_START

QB_PADDED_FRAME_END

QB_PADDED_FRAME_STEP

Cluster priorities now allow you to use wildcards, by using a + character at the end of a cluster name, to match several clusters. Multiple clusters can also be specified by separating them with commas.

For example, specifying a job's cluster as /+ and a priority of 1 would allow the job to run as priority 1 in all clusters on the farm.

Authenticated SMTP (Simple Mail Transport Protocol) Support

We've added SMTP Auth support over SSL and TLS connections. This allows the supervisor to send mail through your ISP's email server, customers no longer have to have an in-house SMTP relay.