Bumped version to 1.20

Disable BAT's Strict Pointer Mode to work around issues with dangling
pointers in the Blender Animation Studio files. These seem to be caused
by not-perfectly-resynced library overrides. Ignoring those pointers
seems to cause less problems than crashing on them.

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 # Blender Cloud changelog
 
+## Version 1.20 (2021-07-22)
+- Bump blender-asset-tracer version 1.3.1 -> 1.5.1.
+- Blender-asset-tracer "Strict Pointer Mode" disabled, to avoid issues with
+  not-entirely-synced library overrides.
+
 ## Version 1.19 (2021-02-23)
 
 - Another Python 3.9+ compatibility fix.

blender_cloud/__init__.py

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 bl_info = {
     "name": "Blender Cloud",
     "author": "Sybren A. Stüvel, Francesco Siddi, Inês Almeida, Antony Riakiotakis",
-    "version": (1, 19),
+    "version": (1, 20),
     "blender": (2, 80, 0),
     "location": "Addon Preferences panel, and Ctrl+Shift+Alt+A anywhere for texture browser",
     "description": "Texture library browser and Blender Sync. Requires the Blender ID addon "

blender_cloud/flamenco/__init__.py

@@ -54,6 +54,8 @@ from bpy.props import (
 from .. import async_loop, pillar, project_specific, utils
 from ..utils import pyside_cache, redraw
 
+import blender_asset_tracer.blendfile
+
 log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 # Global flag used to determine whether panels etc. can be drawn.
@@ -649,6 +651,12 @@ class FLAMENCO_OT_render(
 
         self.log.debug("projdir: %s", projdir)
 
+        # Due to issues with library overrides and unsynced pointers, it's quite
+        # common for the Blender Animation Studio to get crashes of BAT. To avoid
+        # these, Strict Pointer Mode is disabled.
+
+        blender_asset_tracer.blendfile.set_strict_pointer_mode(False)
+
         if is_shaman_url(prefs.flamenco_job_file_path):
             endpoint, _ = bat_interface.parse_shaman_endpoint(
                 prefs.flamenco_job_file_path

requirements.txt

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 lockfile==0.12.2
 pillarsdk==1.8.0
 wheel==0.29.0
-blender-asset-tracer==1.3.1
+blender-asset-tracer==1.5.1
 
 # Secondary requirements:
 asn1crypto==0.24.0

setup.py

@@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ setup(
     },
     name="blender_cloud",
     description="The Blender Cloud addon allows browsing the Blender Cloud from Blender.",
-    version="1.19",
+    version="1.20",
     author="Sybren A. Stüvel",
     author_email="sybren@stuvel.eu",
     packages=find_packages("."),