0.58.4.0

Improvements

• Arnold Renderer : Improved performance when instancing large numbers of objects. A benchmark with 1 million instances shows a 25% reduction in scene generation time.
• Encapsulate : Fixed bugs in shader/attribute inheritance when rendering in Arnold (#3559).
• Arnold Renderer :
  • Fixed OSLShader connections between color components.
  • Fixed hangs when instancing the output of an Encapsulate node.
• CropWindowTool : Fixed error handling bugs.
• ImageReader : Fixed bug which caused fileName to be evaluated in unnecessary contexts.