Release Notes/2022.20000/next

These are the release notes for our upcoming release. Welcome to the "insider club"!

Known Issues

The following operators have not been ported yet
- Audio Render CHOP
Leap Motion CHOP / Leap Motion TOP - The Leap Motion SDK has not been updated for Apple Silicon by Ultraleap, so it is not an option to add to these builds.
Movie File In TOP / Movie File Out TOP - The Cineform codec SDK does not look like it will be updated for Apple Silicon, so it is not an option to add to these builds.
RealSense TOP / RealSense CHOP - The librealsense SDK v2.50.0 does not look like it will be updated for Apple Silicon, so it is not an option to add to these builds.

Palette:searchReplace - searchReplace result reporting improvements. Added a toggle to include "hidden" parameters which defaults to off.
Palette:popMenu - Fixed issue displaying wrong selected value in DAT output.

Palette:materialDesignIcons - Align modes default to Bounding Box for better alignment of icon.
Palette:multiTouch - v6.0.1 - Removing a top level missing export on the opacity parameter which caused an unnecessary warning.
Palette:sopRender - v13.1.3 - Small internal cleanup of some unused OPs laying around.
Palette:quadReproject - v0.1.5 - Added a Reset pulse parameter that internally re-trigger replication of quad configs after resetting to a clean state.
Widgets - AutoUI - removed Verticalaspect parameter reference.

Actor COMP / Nvidia Flex Solver COMP - Optimize the updating of collision shapes and transforms of static shapes.
FBX COMP - Added texture asset's external file path to Info DAT table to assist with debugging failed texture imports.
Geometry COMP, TDRotateToVector() - Fixed issues when scales were applied in some cases when rotating to vector.

Composite TOP - Improve performance when many inputs are used.
GLSL TOP - Fixed texture reallocation that occurs with extra color buffers if they are used for mipmapped rendering elsewhere.

Screen Grab TOP - Fixed delayed mode not working well with GPUs using fallback capture.
Screen Grab TOP - Fixed a potential crash on macOS if permission wasn't granted for TouchDesigner to use Screen Recording.

Web Render TOP - Fixed crash that can occur when restarting the web rendering process.

Delay CHOP - Fixed issue occuring when delay was exactly equal to maximum delay.
Mouse In CHOP - Fixed bug which caused no values to be generated on some macOS systems.
Timer CHOP - Fixed to alertSegment, alertDone callback arguments when cycling, or max cycles not used.

Monitors DAT - Added 'gpu_name' column.
MQTT Client DAT - Fixed connections to secure brokers ie. SSL
MQTT Client DAT - Automatically attempt to reconnect if connection to broker is lost or fails.
MQTT Client DAT - Trigger onConnect callback on client reconnect.

Table DAT - Table DATs now default to using 'tsv' extension when saving or editing contents rather than using the Content Language.
Web Client DAT - Fixed DAT viewer crash when outputting bytes type data.
Web Client DAT - Fixed a case where redirect headers (eg. 302) were sometimes combined with their subsequent response headers.
WebSocket DAT - Possible fix for issues with establishing WebSocket connections outside the LAN.
Alembic SOP - Upgraded to Alembic 1.8.4, removed support and dependency for legacy HDF5 compression format.
Texture SOP - Camera aspect now works with floating point values.

Binding cells/pars/channels to Parameter Menus now use tokens or integers as appropriate.
Reset button values to default when changing button type menu.
Fixed node name dependency so it does not depend on parameters.
Fixed crashes that can occur when switching panel views quickly.
Fixed an issue showing * for a modified toe file on macOS after exiting Perform Mode.
Fixed spurious errors when using Page.appendPar()
Fixed a crash when entering invalid characters into the customize component window.
Fixed % operator not being an Optimized Expression in some cases (CHOP source particularly).

BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY ISSUE -