0.89.0

Core

• Added Support for NumericPlug->BoolPlug and BoolPlug->NumericPlug connections.

UI

• Added additional types to the user plug creation menu.
• Added pre-selection highlighting in the NodeGraph (#94).
• Added “Create Expression...” menu option for bool plugs.
• Fixed NodeGraph resizing to crop rather than scale (#10).
• Fixed read only CompoundPlug labels.
• Added workarounds for Qt OpenGL problem on OS X (#404 and #396).

Scene

• Added Parent node. This allows one hierarchy to be parented into another (#91).
• Fixed bug which could cause incorrect bound computation at the parent node in the Instancer.
• Seeds and Instancer classes now preserve existing children of the parent location, renaming the new locations to avoid name clashes if necessary.
• Added tag filtering to the SceneReader node.
• Enabled input connections to PathFilter “paths” plug. This allows it to be promoted to box level and be driven by expressions etc (#704).

Apps

• Updated view app to contain tabs with different views (info, header, preview etc).
• Added scene cache previews to the browser and view apps (#416).

API

• Removed BranchCreator name plug - derived classes are now responsible for generating the entirety of their branch.
• Modified BranchCreator hashing slightly to improve performance - derived classes hashBranch*() methods are now responsible for calling the base class implementation.
• Fixed Box::canPromotePlug( readOnlyPlug ) to return false.
• Fixed Box::canPromotePlug() to check child plugs too.
• Fixed bug in read only Plugs with input connections.
• Added Gadget setHighlighted() and getHighlighted() methods.
• Added supportedExtensions() methods to ImageReader and SceneReader.
• Added Viewer.view() and Viewer.viewGadgetWidget() methods.
• Added NodeToolbar and StandardNodeToolbar classes.

Build

• Updated public build to use OpenEXR 2.1.
• Updated public build to use OpenImageIO 1.3.12.
• Updated public build to use OpenShadingLanguage 1.4.1.
• Removed pkg-config from the dependency requirements.