Announcing the release of OpenCue v1.13.8

OpenCue v1.13.8 release notes

October 8, 2025

To learn how to install and configure OpenCue, see our Getting Started guide.

This release brings a large number of new features, enhancements, bug fixes, and documentation improvements across the OpenCue ecosystem. The highlights include new tools, UI/UX improvements, substantial test coverage, and improved documentation.

Major Features

  • CueNIMBY: Workstation NIMBY Control Introduced the CueNIMBY application, a system tray tool for more convenient NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) control on individual workstations, making it easy to interact with render farm availability. (#2026)

  • cuecmd: Batch Command Execution Added the cuecmd module, enabling batch command execution across the render farm, streamlining mass operations and administrative tasks. (#2028)

  • REST Gateway Improvements
    • Major expansion of OpenCue’s REST Gateway documentation and testing infrastructure (#1940)
    • New REST endpoints for comment management operations (#1953)
    • Comprehensive management interface endpoints and end-to-end testing (#2015)
  • Show Archive Automation Implemented archive automation features to streamline show management. (#2024)

User Interface and Usability

  • CueWeb
    • Professional-style toolbar with grouped action buttons (#1906)
    • Enhanced documentation with mermaid diagram support (#1955)
  • CueGUI
    • Improved Monitor Jobs toolbar UI and restored unmonitor buttons (#1892)
    • Added “Retry Dead Frames” action to Progress Bar (#1961)
    • Updated documentation screenshots to match new layouts (#2021)
    • Multiple fixes for job monitoring, grouped job views, dependency wizard behavior, and UI polish (#1964), (#1976), (#1978), (#1995), (#1968)
    • Removed “Use Local Cores” option for clarity and workflow improvements (#1959)

Quality, Testing, and Stability

  • Increase in Unit and Integration Test Coverage:
  • CI/CD Improvements:
    • Dependency and mock library conflict fixes (#1991)
    • Docs and pipeline reliability improvements (#1997), (#2033), (#2034)

Documentation and Ecosystem

  • Documentation Enhancements and Corrections:
    • New, comprehensive documentation for CueWeb, REST Gateway, and CueProgBar (#1955), (#1940), (#1962)
    • Improved navigation, release notes, and contributor information (#1937), (#1895), (#1944), (#2030)
  • Sample and Dockerfile Updates:
    • Blender and BForArtist Dockerfiles updated to latest LTS with CUDA; improved development workflows (#2003), (#2020), (#2032)

Other Improvements and Fixes

  • Platform and Dependency:
    • Windows newline support, Ruby REXML bump, and PyPI packaging fixes (#2011), (#1951), (#1884), (#1887), (#1949)
    • macOS temp directory stats for RQD (#2023)
    • Logging and overload prevention in RQD (#2019)
  • Job, Frame, and Group Management:
    • Numerous enhancements and fixes to job monitoring, dependent job collapse, progress dialogs, and job/group operations (#1966), (#5b4231bc), (#3a0cafe), (#14367a9)

Changes

  • Bump brace-expansion in /cueweb #1870
  • [pypi] Update pyproject.toml files with descriptions and README files #1884
  • [pypi] Fix TestPyPI upload failures for existing package versions #1887
  • [cuegui] Improve Monitor Jobs toolbar UI and restore unmonitor buttons #1892
  • [docs] Add “Contributors” section and fix spelling and consistency issues in README #1937
  • [rest_gateway] Add comprehensive OpenCue REST Gateway documentation and testing infrastructure #1940
  • [docs] Add v1.11.66 release notes documentation #1895
  • Update the description of the Opencue modules’ README files #1890
  • [docs] Fix documentation navigation order and remove duplicate video #1942
  • [cueadmin] Add Unit Tests for Format Module Functions #1941
  • [docs] OpenCue documentation stable version - Update docs version to 1.11.66 #1946
  • [docs] Add News: OpenCue Project Review 2025 #1948
  • [pypi] Fix Python package descriptions exceeding 512 character limit #1949
  • [cueman] Add Comprehensive Unit Tests for Job Termination Logic in cueman #1950
  • [docs] Fix markdown formatting issue in v1.11.66 release notes #1944
  • Bump rexml from 3.4.1 to 3.4.2 in /docs #1951
  • [cueadmin/cuegui/cuesubmit/pycue/pyoutline/rqd] Standardize test file naming convention to test_*.py #1952
  • [rest_gateway] Add REST endpoints for comment management operations #1953
  • Update README file #1956
  • [cueweb] Add Professional Toolbar with Grouped Action Buttons #1906
  • [docs] Add comprehensive CueWeb documentation with mermaid diagram support #1955
  • [cueman] Add comprehensive test infrastructure and update documentation for Cueman #1954
  • [cuegui] Add ‘Retry Dead Frames’ action to Progress Bar window #1961
  • [cuegui] Fix KeyError when unmonitoring finished/archived jobs #1964
  • [docs] Add CueProgBar documentation to Cuetopia monitoring guide #1962
  • [cuegui] Fix progress dialog close buttons and completion behavior #1968
  • [cuegui] Fix Group Dependent functionality to properly collapse dependent jobs #1966
  • [cuegui] Remove “Use Local Cores” option from Layer and Frame context menus #1959
  • [cuegui] Fix AttributeError when clicking on GroupWidgetItem in JobMonitorTree #1976
  • [cueman] Add Unit Tests for Layer Display Formatting #1971
  • [cueman] Add Comprehensive Unit Tests for buildFrameSearch #1973
  • [cueadmin] Add unit tests for allocation management #1974
  • [cueman] Add Unit Tests for Job Operation Commands #1979
  • [cueadmin] Add Unit Tests for Host Management Commands #1969
  • [cuegui] Fix Unmonitor Finished feature for grouped job views #1978
  • [cueadmin] Enhance testing infrastructure, tooling, and documentation #1982
  • [CI/CD] Fix mock dependency conflicts across Python packages #1991
  • [cuegui] Fix dependency wizard progress dialog hanging at 100% for grouped jobs #1995
  • [CI/CD] Fix docs pipeline failing on tag deployments #1997
  • [cueadmin] Add Unit Tests for Subscription Management #1984
  • [cueman] Add Unit Tests for Query and Listing Commands #1988
  • [cueman] Add unit tests and validation for frame operations #1999
  • [Windows] Force newline style #2011
  • [cueadmin] Add Unit Tests for DependUtil Class #1985
  • Revised the sample rqd blender to latest LTS release with cuda support and added an additional bforartist dockerfiles #2003
  • [cueadmin] Add unit tests for proc management commands #2013
  • [cueadmin] Add unit tests for utility functions #2012
  • [cueadmin] Add unit tests for ActionUtil class and fix protobuf field names #2007
  • [cueman] Add comprehensive unit tests for command line argument parsing #2006
  • [cueman] Add unit tests for error handling and logging #2005
  • [cueman] Add Unit Tests for Memory and Duration Filtering #2004
  • [cueadmin] Add job management commands, job unit tests, update integration tests and documentation #2014
  • [cueadmin] Add integration tests for CueAdmin #2008
  • [rest_gateway] Add management interface endpoints and comprehensive testing #2015
  • [cueman] Add integration tests for Cueman #2010
  • [CI/CD] Add REST Gateway tests to CI/CD pipeline #2018
  • Update CueGUI documentation screenshots to reflect new button layouts #2021
  • [rqd] Avoid overloaded log files created by RQD’s jobs #2019
  • [rqd] Add macOS support for temp directory stats reporting #2023
  • [cuebot/pycue/cueadmin/docs] Add show archive automation feature #2024
  • [cuebot] Add onframe element to dtd spec #2001
  • [cueman] Improve input validation and refactor duration/memory filters #2022
  • [cuecmd] Add cuecmd module for batch command execution on render farm #2028
  • [cuenimby] Add CueNIMBY - System tray application for workstation NIMBY control #2026
  • Revised sample rqd blender&cuda+additional bforartist dockerfile #2020
  • [docker] Use build for Cuebot in docker-compose for development #2032
  • [docs] Update Docs nav_order and some titles #2030
  • [CICD] Simplify release pipeline under a single environment #2033
  • [CICD] Remove published whls from release #2034

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