V-Ray RT GPU Enhancements
– V-Ray RT GPU now supports texture-mapped rectangle and mesh lights, simple light portals, and the VRayBlendMtl.

Additional Improvements
– Optimized memory usage and multithreaded performance for dynamic geometry.
– Optimized Irradiance Map and Light Cache to reduce flickering when using time dependent option of the DMC sampler.
– New Flakes material.
– Improved support for standard Maya shading nodes.

Installation and Deployment Improvements
– Now Mac OS users can benefit from the user-friendly GUI installer for both VLRService and V-Ray for Maya.
– Windows and Linux OS users can easily take advantage of the two installation options: executable installation or an archive file for easier deployment on a cluster of machines.