Timur Hairulin et al.  released new version of free distributed rendering solution for render-farms called CGRU, which contains a rendering manager (supports Blender, Nuke, Houdini and Maya) and a bunch of scripts.

Changes:

• Afanasy supports IPv6 now;
• a Nuke render script was added to render images locally in a temporary folder and copy completely rendered image to reduce network traffic;
• changes in Nuke render network: 'afanasy' nodes can be connected to describe 'Write' nodes dependency;
• Mavishky — a new dialog and command line tool for Linux to make video files from image sequences;
• RPM build scripts were added and tested on openSUSE, Fedora, CentOS.
• Afanasy GUI application for Windows does not open terminal anymore;
• support for Maya 2010 and 2011 was implemented;
• the 'fbx2clip' tool was removed.

You can download CGRU here.

More on this topic:

• 3Delight exporter for Blender updated to feature new global illumination method
• Mitsuba 0.3.0 released with new sun/sky model and other improvements
• CGRU v1.5 released with more sophisticated support for Houdini
• LuxRender 0.8 released with new features and GPU rendering
• New "Secret Spaces" competition from LuxRender