.. _ReleaseNotes/Draft1.5.3:

Draft 1.5.3
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This version of Draft will not work with Deadline 6 or earlier.

What's New
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**New License File Required**

- This build requires a new version 1.5 license.  Please contact sales@thinkboxsoftware.com for an updated Draft 1.5 license file. 

**Compatibility**

- Scripts written for previous versions of Draft should still work fine with Draft 1.5.

**Images**

- Added support for specifying the channel bit depth when writing an image to file.
- Added support for embedding a timecode when writing an image to file.
- Added support for accessing an image in memory as a byte array that is compatible with the QByteArray in PySide.

**Videos**

- Added support for embedding a timecode when encoding a video.
- Added support for video concatenation.

Bug Fixes
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- Fixed a bug that was causing ImageMagick to read image file twice.
- Fixed a bug that was preventing Draft to encode a video with codec DNxHD and format MXF for some frame rates.
- Fixed a bug that was causing some ImageMagick warnings to throw runtime errors.
- Fixed bugs in Draft.Image.RenameChannel() and Draft.Image.SetToColor(). Those functions were not handling file channel mapping correctly.
- Fixed a bug that was causing overflows when assembling big OpenEXR images with the TileAssembler.
- Fixed a bug in Draft.VideoDecoder.DecodeNextFrame(). That function was not handling file channel mapping correctly.
- Fixed two bugs in Draft.Image.Resize(). Data outside of display window was not cropped when necessary and an image was not resized if data window did not need to be resized.
- Fixed a bug in Draft.Image.WriteToFile(). When writing a tiled EXR image, certain resolutions were causing a memory access violation.


