Changelog
Release notes for the RenderConf Blender add-on, phone app, and web app.
Annual subscribers receive every add-on update automatically in Blender; app updates arrive over the air.
Add-on 1.17.1 · July 2, 2026
Smoother connections, lighter monitoring
- Reconnects after a network drop or relay maintenance are now spread out and much gentler, so the connection recovers quickly without hammering the network.
- Hardware monitoring on the render PC is lighter: GPU stats are sampled every 2 seconds instead of twice per second, freeing CPU for your render. CPU and RAM stay at half-second resolution.
- APK and demo-video downloads are faster, resumable, and served from the edge.
Add-on 1.17.0 · July 1, 2026
Licensing and AMD support
- License keys: your purchase now issues a signed license, shown once on the purchase page and pasted into the add-on preferences. The add-on panel shows license status.
- Licensed auto-updates: add the RenderConf repository in Blender with your license as the access token and updates install like any extension.
- AMD and Intel GPU telemetry alongside NVIDIA: utilization, VRAM, temperature, and power where the hardware reports it.
Apps · July 2026
The clean console redesign
- Phone and web apps redesigned in the light "clean console" style with dark device screens for previews and graphs.
- The web app installs as a PWA and works great on iPhone (guide).
- Per-GPU hardware graphs with gauge and history views, power actions for the render PC, and frame download/export.
How updates reach you. Subscription and annual licenses include updates:
follow the install guide to add the update repository in Blender once, and new
versions appear in Preferences > Get Extensions. The one-time lifetime purchase stays on the version
current at purchase.