Release Notes for Nuke and Hiero 15.0v6

Release Date

16 January 2025

Bug Fixes

Rotopaint

ID 580889 - Points jump when cmd + drag bbox to scale a shape

Viewer Saturation Control

ID 581172 - Saturation slider not present in the preferences for the viewer

3D

ID 519874 - Non-Uniform geometry scale values will not warp 3D handles in 3D viewer's screen space transform mode.
ID 558775 - The inputs for the environment light node in the new 3d system now match that of the classic node.
ID 560420 - lastmodified doesn't apply textures to some USD files
ID 562533 - The frustum wireframe of Camera4 nodes does not represent its Window Translate, Window Scale, or Window Roll knobs
ID 563418 - Light options under 'node name' knob does not update while switching between the options - classic 3D system
ID 578704 - GeoTransform now detects an animated axis input
ID 582051 - The GeoUVProject node produces incorrect results if indexed "st" attributes are present
ID 582635 - The ParticleExpression node's new operator and the "only on new" condition work correctly for particles generated from ParticleSpawn nodes.
ID 585463 - The Viewer shows the correct values when the show_point_num knob is enabled.
ID 588168 - Spherical projection mode in UVProject and GeoUVProject works correctly.

Exporting

ID 479281 -
Fixed: Hiero/Nuke Studio always import the latest clip version when building track, even if the version number is defined in the preset/structure
When building a track from export structure, there is a 'Use Latest Version' checkbox.
- When the box is checked, building track creates track items set to the latest version available for the underlying media
- When the box isn't checked, building track uses the same version as the track that the process draws from
ID 486035 - Fixed: Exporting Sequences with a soft effect as the bottom active track error with a unhelpful error message saying 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'getJumpName'
ID 516447 - Fixed: Hiero unable to export clip length audio
ID 536334 - Fixed: Hiero returns an empty error message when it is unable to overwrite an existing file
ID 562767 - Fixed: Exporting comps creates ModifyMetaData nodes for all tagged frames in a sequence, even if the Tags does not apply to the exported shot

File Export

ID 569723 - Nuke renders 30 FPS MXF files at 29.97 FPS

Knobs

ID 568305 - Nuke crashes when the value of an EvalString_Knob is set to a long string [LINUX ONLY]

Node

ID 215654 - ZDefocus outputs black pixels with certain focus plane values
ID 431602 - The background remains black when specific settings are used in the ZDefocus node

Performance

ID 589604 - Nuke locks up sometimes when comp cache limit is reached

Python

ID 556538 - Python DeprecationWarning messages occur when PYTHONDEVMODE is enabled
ID 567990 - Fixed: hiero.ui.activeView() returns None when the Viewer is in fullscreen
ID 581730 - Nuke's Script Editor no longer autofills PySide2 modules

Sync Review

ID 579815 - Fixed: Versioning is slower while a Sync Session is active
ID 580906 - Fixed: UI performance decreases when a Sync Session is active
ID 580907 - Fixed: Playback performance can change unexpectedly when a Sync Session is active

Timeline

ID 275037 - Collapsing a track with a large number of soft effects no longer causes tracks to overlap.
ID 574874 - Fixed: An "Exception handling element" error occurs in Nuke Studio/Hiero when importing EDL files that contain an unknown transition and a Dissolve transition on the same clip
ID 579497 - Zooming in on the timeline Viewer during playback results in blurriness or flickering on the image
ID 580273 - Track height now adjusts when replacing a clip in the timeline that had soft effects
ID 580651 - Right-clicking a track item that is not auto-selected will no longer include the auto-selected clip. Right-clicking an auto-selected clip will also no longer hard-select the clip, maintaining the auto-selection.
ID 582645 - Opening a project with a large stack of soft effects no longer results in overlapping tracks in the UI.

USD

ID 588822 - Retrieving a std::string from usg::Value no longer crashes when using a custom USD version.

Versions

ID 574495 - Fixed: Nuke Studio/Hiero freezes when Scan for Versions encounters a corrupt file

Viewer

ID 577615 - Fixed: Deleting a track in the Viewer's A or B buffer stops the Viewer from caching all frames
ID 588255 - Changing the Viewer's downrez can also change the result of SphericalTransform nodes

ZDefocus

ID 371415 - Running more than one session with GPU based nodes causes "Couldn't find Function ******** " to occur within Viewer and Frame Server

Known Issues

3D

ID 580101 - Textures created inside of nuke is no longer visible when exported and re-imported

Disk Cache

ID 551673 - Disk cache is not properly invalidated when expressions are used to link two soft effect values

MacOS

ID 541985 - Viewer becomes a solid colour when changing Ultimatte 'Screen Colour' from non-default to default
ID 548082 - OFX Denoise and OFlow not supported natively on Apple Silicon

Monitor Out

ID 563868 - Floating Window sometimes not rendering when switching between Timeline and Node Graph

Node

ID 581199 - The UnrealReader's Picker knobs do not Add or Remove items from the Layer List

Sync Review

ID 581464 - Adding soft effects will remove In and Out points from other session

Timeline

ID 581186 - Clone soft effects do not update when the original is edited

Viewer

ID 592171 - The Viewer's playback range becomes locked when the Playhead is selected if the playback range was previously locked

Qualified Operating Systems

macOS Monterey (12.x), or macOS Ventura (13.x). Nuke 15.0 supports Apple's silicon hardware on M1 and M2 chips.

For more information on Foundry products and supported macOS versions, see Foundry Knowledge Base article
Q100592.
Windows 10 (64-bit) or Windows 11 (64-bit)
Linux Rocky 9.0 (64-bit)

Nuke requires libnuma to run under Linux distributions, the library is required by the Nablet H264 Codec SDK.

The currently supported version of VFX Reference Platform includes library versions that are only compatible with Rocky 9.0.

Other operating systems may work, but have not been fully tested.

Requirements for Nuke's GPU Acceleration

If you want to enable Nuke to calculate certain nodes using the GPU, there are some additional requirements.

NVIDIA

An NVIDIA GPU with graphics drivers capable of running CUDA 11.8, or above. A list of the compute capabilities of NVIDIA GPUs is available at https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-gpus

The compute capability is a property of the GPU hardware and can't be altered by a software update.

With graphics drivers capable of running CUDA 11.8, or above. On Windows and Linux, CUDA graphics drivers are bundled with the regular drivers for your NVIDIA GPU. Driver versions 522.06 (Windows) and 520.61.05 (Linux), or above are required. See https://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx for more information on compatible drivers.

We recommend using the latest graphics drivers, where possible, regardless of operating system.

AMD

Bitwise equality between GPU and CPU holds in most cases, but for some operations there are limitations to the accuracy possible with this configuration.

On Windows and Linux, an AMD GPU from the following list:

Other AMD GPUs may work, but have not been fully tested.
- AMD Radeon PRO W7900
- AMD Radeon PRO W6600
- AMD Radeon PRO W6800
- AMD Radeon Pro W5700
- AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT
For information on the recommended driver for each GPU, see https://www.amd.com/en/support
On Mac, integrated AMD GPUs are supported on the following Intel CPU Macs:
- Any late 2013 Mac Pro onward (including 2019 Mac Pro),
- Mid-2015 MacBook Pros onward, and
- Late 2017 iMac Pros onward.
All supported Mac Pros include a multi-GPU support option, where applicable. Bitwise equality between GPU and CPU holds in most cases, but for some operations, there are limitations to the accuracy possible with this configuration.

Although AMD GPUs are enabled on other Mac models, they are not officially supported and used at your own risk.

Multi-GPU Processing

Nuke's GPU support includes an Enable multi-GPU support option. When enabled in the preferences, GPU processing is shared between the available GPUs for extra processing speed.

Multi-GPU processing is only available for identical GPUs in the same machine. For example, two NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080s or two AMD Radeon™ Pro WX 9100s.

GPU Requirements for the Machine Learning Toolset

Training using the CopyCat node requires an NVIDIA GPU, with compute capability 3.5 or above; or MacOS Apple silicon integrated GPUs.

If an appropriate GPU is not available, Inference and other machine learning plug-ins can run on the CPU with significantly degraded performance.

Developer Notes

As Nuke develops, we sometimes have to make changes to the API and ABI under the hood. We try to keep these changes to a minimum and only for certain releases, but from time to time API and ABI compatibility is not guaranteed. See the following table for the situations when you may have to recompile your plug-ins and/or make changes to the source code.

Release Type	Example	Compatibility	Recompile	Rewrite
Version	14.0v1 to 14.0v2	API and ABI
Point	14.0v1 to 14.1v1	API	⬤
Major	14.0v1 to 15.0v1	-	⬤	⬤

Additionally, node Class() names occasionally change between major releases. While these changes do not affect legacy scripts, you may not get the results you were expecting if a node class has been modified. The toolbars.py file, used to create Nuke's node toolbar, contains all the current node class names and is located in <install_directory>/plugins/nukescripts/ for reference.

As an example, between Nuke 13 and Nuke 14, the Axis node Class() changed from Axis3 to Axis4. In the toolbars.py file for the two releases, the entries for the Axis node appear as follows:

m3Dclassic.addCommand(
    "Axis",
    "nuke.createNode(\"Axis3\")",
    icon="Axis.png",
    tag=MenuItemTag.Classic,
    node="Axis3",
    tagTarget=MenuItemTagTargetFlag.TabMenu)
m3D.addCommand(
    "Axis",
    "nuke.createNode(\"Axis4\")",
    icon="Axis_3D.png",
    tag=MenuItemTag.Beta, node="Axis4")