I also tried it with the older 31.4 built with the same result, freezing Blender.

Attached I made the smallest possible scene with a moving cube. If you turn on Motion Blur and "Render Image" F12 or "Render Animation" Ctrl + F12. Blender freezes.

Thank you very much for your reply. I really appreciate that you work on it
If I achieve a fix on my end, I will let you know!

Bumping this thread because it still does not work with the latest Server:
Octane Server 2026.1-31.4

Might I suggest an installer like in the previous non plugin versions.
Thank you in advance for looking into this!

Thank you very much for the fast fix. I really appreciate it

When I try to get Object Layer Color to work and get out the color I set in the Object context, the Object Layer Color node, although connected in the UI seems to be doing nothing to the rendering. It acts as if there was no node connected.
It works in the older version of Blender Octane e.g ...

Hey Lino,

thank you for getting back to me,

I had to install the patchelf package first.

I tried patchelf --set-rpath '$ORIGIN/'lib ./OctaneServer

Probably because there is no "lib" folder in the directory. The .so files sharing the same folder with the OctaneServer
The attached screenshot shows ...

Hey lino,

sorry for getting back to you so late. The answer notifications both went into my spam folder 😇
Also I seem to have mixed up some versions in my original message.

Basically what I am saying is, the Octane Server for Linux that came with a .run package that could be installed works just ...

Hey there.
I downloaded The new Blender " OctaneBlender Addon 2026.1 - 31.3 Beta Release (for Blender 5.0) [TEST] "

I can extract and run the " octane_addon_server-studio-31.3-beta.zip " on Windows just fine.

But on my Linux Fedora 43, when I extract and run " OctaneStudio_for_BlenderOctaneAddon ...

I tried opening the DB in this version on multiple machines. And I was greeted with an error:
When I tried the older version 2023.1 28.10 everything was working.

I´m working on Windows 11 10.0.22361 Build 22361.