Linux-SP-Stable Release Notes
9/22/2022
Version: V4.26.01
Version: V4.26.00
Version: V4.24.03
Version: V4.24.02
Version: V4.24.01
Version: V4.24.00
Change: Fixed PCIe driver for Windows 10. Now it works in case of OS is allowed to turn off device to save power. PCIe driver V2.4.4 has been released.Change: Fixed getting of "debounce" parameters value correctly. Now if different input line is selected, correct values of "debounce" will be returned.
Affected products: CB,MC,MX,MT,MJ
Change: Fixed initialization of GPI "Debounce Setup" dialog in xiCamTool. Now parameters during dialog opening initialized properly.
Change: Added new field of structure XI_IMG "color_filter_array". Now output image data color filter array should not be parsed from pixel data format.
Affected products: All cameras.
Change: Fixed saving the image from the Processing chain. Now the CamTool does not crash when the camera image is saved after it is processed in the Processing chain.
Change: Added processing of 14p pixel data formats. Now image processing is able to unpack transport data from camera from 14p format and deliver to application e.g. as XI_RAW16.
Affected products: All cameras.
Change: Fixed the Sensor Defects Editor. Now the defects list will not be cleared when image is flipped.
Change: Fixed the White Balance interface. Now the white balance controls are not visible for mono cameras.
Change: Fixed the HDR button visibility for non-HDR cameras. Now the HDR button will not be visible for non-HDR cameras.
Change: Fixed version of FPGA FW from 2.5 to 2.6 for MU9P cameras. Now it reports correct FPAG version.
Affected products: MU9 family.
Change: Improved image quality for PCIe cameras with CMV2000 and CMV4000 sensor. Now shutterline visibility is significantly suppressed.
Affected products: MX022, MX042
Change: Fixed AutoExposure initialization at the first StartAcquisition. Now the first StartAcquisition in CamTool doesn't end with Error message \"Image acquisition failed due to insufficient system resources.\" when the AutoExposure feature is enabled.
Affected products: CB042MG-GP-BSI
Change: Fixed issue with changing image intensity when height of the image is changed for cameras with GMAX0505 sensor. Now the image intensity remains the same.
Affected products: CB262
Change: Fixed watchdog occasionally reseting camera MU9P. Now camera works stable(new FPGA FW v.2.06 released).
Affected products: MU9 family.
Change: Optimized time of announcing and queuing buffers for PCIe cameras. Now they take less time.
Affected products: PCIe cameras
Change: Optimized time of announcing and queuing buffers for PCIe cameras. Now they take less time.
Affected products: PCIe cameras
Change: Fixed saving data to DNG file. Now the CFA pattern is saved correctly after the image is flipped.
Change: Fixed the binning/decimation selectors in the Image Format Box. Now the bining/decimation size will show only supported values.
Affected products: CB,MC,MX,MT,MJ
Change: Fixed CamTool controls visibility. Now the controls for U3V features which are not supported will not be visible (e.g. Rolling shutter type)
Affected products: MC
Change: Fixed temperature record in image matadata. Now temperature is read by temperature selectors.
Change: Fixing image flip control in CamTool. Now vertical flip is shown in Basic category for CB262xG cameras.
Affected products: CB262
Change: Fixed API crashing on MONO cameras if manual white balance is on. Now it doesn't not crash.
Affected products: MQ family, MD family
Change: Fixed ROI functionality when changing binning or decimation. Now the max width and height of image is recalculated every time the binning or decimation is changed.
Change: Changed and fixed DualADC Gain Ratio. Now the parameter is float type in dB units, and the Gain parameter is invalidated only when it is outside of the valid range.
Affected products: MX-X2G2 cameras based on IMX532, IMX531 and IMX530
Change: Fixed GPUDirect RDMA support on newer Linux kernels. Now enable_gpudirect.sh script succeeds on Ubuntu 20.04.
Affected products: CB,MX,MT
Change: Fixed camera initialization if User Defect correction list is set to camera.
Affected products: xiFApi cameras.
Change: Fixed SetExposure time. Now when shorter exposure time than min (1us) is set the proper error is returned.
Affected products: PCIe cameras based on IMX25x sensors
Change: Fixed ImageSensorDieRaw temperature selector. Now the temperature from the selector is returned correctly.
Affected products: PCIe cameras
Change: Updated the list of supported GPO modes for X8G3-R2 PCIe cameras. Now GPO mode of these cameras do not consist of unsupported values.
Affected products: X8G3-R2 PCIe cameras
Change: Fixing Control FPS feature in CamTool. Now control shows maximum theoretical frames per second in Free Run Mode for PCIe cameras.
Affected products: CB,MX
Change: Added possibility to set buffer_queue_size from CamTool plugin. Now users can increase the size from their plugins instead of default minimum.
Change: Fixed negative temperature reading from SensorBoard temperature chip. Now even the negative temperature is read correctly.
Affected products: CB,MX,MT,MC
Change: Added new XiAPI/Gentl feature - Concatenated Images. Now PCIe cameras can use this feature to concatenate more images in one buffer. E.g. CB120-X8G3 can deliver more than 23000 frames per second on small ROI (32x12).
Affected products: CB,MX,MT
Change: Fixed compatibility of PCIe driver with Linux kernels 5.8 and later. Now PCIe cameras work with newer Linux kernels.
Affected products: CB,MX,MT
Change: Added disabled sensor initialization in CamTool. Now all or selected cameras can be open without sensor.
Change: Fixed setting the bandwidth limit from INI file in xiLib. Now LIMIT_BANDWIDTH is loaded correctly.
Change: Added debounce feature for inputs. Now the debounce feature can be set for all inputs (possible range is 0-100ms) for all CB/MX cameras (Required FPGA FW is 21.93+).
Affected products: CB/MX cameras
Change: Fixed PCIe driver initialization on some (DELL) computers. One missing status handling in initialization lead to BSOD on some computers. Now driver does not crash (BSOD) on all tested computers.
Affected products: CB/MX cameras
Change: Limited resetting of USB endpoints if MC camera return an error code. Now USB endpoint is reset only if USB communication timeouts while register getting.
Affected products: MC cameras
Change: Fixed an issue where installating of Linux API package broke some other applications using libusb. Now libusb and libraw1394 libraries are installed only if new
Change: Fixed saving rotation to program state in CamTool. Now direction of rotation in camera chain is saved and load correctly.
Change: Fixed TIFF format support in CamTool on ARM. Now images can be saved to TIFF format in CamTool on 64 bit ARM Linux.
Change: Fixed samples compilation on Linux. Now samples can be built on platforms other than Windows.
Change: Added new enumerator XI_SENSOR_BLACK_LEVEL_OFFSET_RAW to XI_SENSOR_FEATURE_SELECTOR list. Now users can control sensor black level directly from API by using the XI_PRM_SENSOR_FEATURE_SELECTOR and XI_PRM_SENSOR_FEATURE_VALUE parameters.
Affected products: MX X2G2 cameras with IMX Sony sensors, MX X2G2 cameras with CMV2000 and CMV4000 sensors
Change: Fixed SetExposureTime for cameras with CVM50000 sensor (CB500, MX500). Now even the exposures > 4.2s can be set correctly.
Affected products: CB500xG-CM, MX500xG-CM-X4G2
Change: Fixed XI_PRM_INFO_SETTABLE for the XI_PRM_TEMP_SELECTOR parameter for the cameras based on IMX250, IMX252, IMX253 and IMX255 sensors. Now it returns XI_OK also for XI_TEMP_IMAGE_SENSOR_DIE_RAW selector which is supported.
Affected products: cameras with IMX250, IMX252, IMX253 and IMX255 sensors
Change: Added DataThroughputGraph to Software Package, as part of CamTool. Now users can use this plugin for verification of their multi-camera setups in CamTool.
Change: Fixed support of 16 bit pixel formats. Now it is possible to set output bit depth to 16 bit for all cameras with IMX sensors.
Affected products: PCIe cameras with IMX sensors
Change: Fixed Framebuffer initialization, for all PCIe x8g3 cameras, in case of disabled Auto Bandwidth Calculation. Now the DDR4 framebuffer is correctly initialized even when the camera is opened with disabled Auto Bandwidth Calculation.
Affected products: PCIe cameras with DDR4 framebuffer
Change: Improved Program State manager in CamTool. Now Program State can be saved and loaded for multiple cameras at once.
Change: Fixed ROI increments for cameras with framebuffer. Now the camera CB160 can be open correctly.
Affected products: PCIe cameras with DDR4 framebuffer
Change: Fixed error in setting bandwidth limit by fps limit (CB-x8g3 cameras). Now setting small ROI leads to consistent FPS.
Affected products: CB-x8g3
Change: Fixed error in getting LED_MODE. Now XI_LED_BLINK can be get correctly.
Affected products: CB,MC,MX,MT,MJ
Change: Fixed Multi-Exposure feature. Now the parameter TriggerOverlap is automatically set to Off when user sets Multi-Exposure feature.
Affected products: MX031, MX050, MX089, MX124
Change: Enhanced speed of PCIe cameras firmware update in Linux/macOS systems. Now firmware write speed is 10x faster.
Affected products: CB,MX
Change: Added flat field correction support to offline processing. Now XI_PRM_FFC can be enabled with xiProcSetParam.
Affected products: CB,MC,MX,MT,MJ
Change: Added new GPO Mode (EXPOSURE_PULSE). Now the Exposure_pulse mode can be selected and it generates 250us pulse at the beginning of the exposure (FPGA FW requirements 21.81+).
Affected products: PCIe cameras
Version: V4.20.05
Change: Removed xiCOP firmware update for cameras of MJ family to avoid malfunction. Now it is not possible to upgrade the MJ cameras.Version: V4.20.04
Change: Updated debug messages from USL initialization and loading from TL_FATAL to TL_TRACE. Now there are less debug messages on xiOpenDevice.Version: V4.20.02
Version: V4.20.01
Change: Fixed issue with indentation in xiApiPython (introduced in V4_19_25). Now the wrapper works again with 3.x versions of Python interpreters.Change: Fixed stack corruption in function xiProcGetParam. Now xiApi offline processing can be used on ARM.
Affected products: CB,MC,MX,MT,MJ
Change: Added support for RAW8X2,RAW8X4,RAW16X2,RAW16X4 to xiApiPython. Now it is possible to retrieve un-merged data from PCIe sCMOS cameras.
Change: CamTool Temperature graph plugin has been added to Software Package. Now users can monitor camera temperatures in time graph.
Change: Added User Set control group and parameters to xiAPI description. Now users can use factory set definitions for cameras.
Change: Added interline HDR dual exposure mode support for color cameras with CMV50000. Now can be correctly used with color and mono sensors.
Affected products: CB,MC,MX,MT,MJ
Change: Fixed initialization for MU181CR-ON-R3. Now MU181CR-ON-R3 are initialized on xiOpenDevice properly.
Affected products: MU181CR-ON-R3
Change: Removed extended parameters from xiApiPlusOcv. Now only public parameters are available.
Change: Fixed ROI increments for cameras with framebuffer. Now only valid ROI can be set.
Affected products: PCIe cameras
Change: Fixed limitation to 4096 images in buffer on PCIe cameras. Now unlimited number of images can be received in computer memory. Issue was introduced in V4.19.16.
Affected products: CB,MX,MT
Change: Fixed triggering at the end of the readout, the required is also FPGA FW 21.77. Now the exposure which should start during the last 3 lines is delayed after the end of the readout due to the sensor limitations.
Affected products: CB262xG-GP-X8G3, CB654xG-GP-X8G3
Change: Fixed GenTL build of 32bit binaries, exported functions could not be loaded properly. Now users can use cameras with the 32bit interface. it can be selected in application options.
Change: Added activation of camera's settings when clicked on its label. Now camera label is clickable when more cameras are connected.
Change: Fixed parsing of XiAPI parameters in Lua in CamTool. Now all enumerators are recognized by Lua plugin.
Change: Updated python API. Now error status is saved in Xi_error object even if error status is not defined in __init__.py.
Change: Changed strict checking of pixel format settings to enable opening of all cameras even if pixel-format set is incorrect, also to allow some features working (ShutterType on CB042-GP). Now cameras can be opened even if initialization contain pixel format that is not listed in supported formats. Now ShutterType changing on CB042 also work.
Affected products: CB,MC,MX,MT,MJ
Change: Fixed Default Pixel Format for MX500 color cameras. Now the color MX500 cameras can be opened without PixelFormat error.
Affected products: MX500CG_CM_X4G2
Change: Fixed xiOpenDevice for CB500xG-CM. Now the xiOpenDevice doesn't train the sensor when XI_PRM_CAM_SENSOR_INIT_DISABLED = 1.
Affected products: CB500xG-CM
Change: Fixed LUT values getting in PCIe cameras. Now they can be get and CamTool displays the correct LUT curve for PCIe cameras.
Change: Enhanced H264 codec auto-download during Linux API package installation. Now wget tool is used if curl is unavaiable.
Change: Fixed Getting of Min exposure time. Now the minimal exposure time 1 us is reported.
Affected products: MX031xG-SY-X2G2, MX050xG-SY-X2G2, MX089xG-SY-X2G2, MX124xG-SY-X2G2
Change: Fixed reporting of color filter array (CFA) for cameras with color IMX411 sensors. Now cameras reports correct CFA also in case of 16 bit pixel formats
Affected products: MX1510CR-SY-X2G2-VXL
Change: Fixed AcquisitionFrameRate maximum for Frametate Limit mode. Now user can set AcquisitionFrameRate up to 10000 fps in the Framerate Limit mode.
Affected products: MX022xG-CM, MX042xG-CM
Change: Fixed handling of auto white balance settings for cameras with high resolutions. Now when AWB is going to be enabled by parameter for high resolutions, the parameter returns error code instead of OK.
Affected products: CB,MC,MX,MT,MJ
Change: Fixed locale settings for numbers. Before gain:min, :max were loaded without decimal part. Now ranges of float parameters are loaded correctly.
Change: Fixed return codes from PCIe initialization. Now xiOpenDevice returns valid XI_ results instead of incorrect -1002 codes.
Affected products: CB,MC,MX,MT,MJ
Change: Removed legacy PCIe devices identifiers, used in year 2015. Now they are not supported. The VID 1556 is not used and not being incorrectly associated with other 3rd party devices with the same VID.
Change: Added synchronization of the gain setting to sensor and to header for some MX cameras with IMX sensors. Now the gain value in XI_IMG is the real used gain in the frame. Required FPGA FW is 21.71+.
Affected products: MX
Change: Improved reliability of xiCOP on Linux. Now it doesn't hang when system is using non-English locale.
Change: Removed UNICODE character from python def script. Now the file contains only ANSI characters.
Change: Added InterlineExposureMode and ExposureTimeSelector to CamTool. Now they can be controlled (e.g. for CMV50000 cameras).
Change: Remove exported libstdc++ symbols from API library on Linux. Now symbol collisions between C++ standard library and libm3api.so won't happen.
Change: Removed necessity to set _GLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI=0 on Linux. Now applications using new C++ features won't crash when linked to libm3api.so.
Change: Fixed GenTL pixel format definitions for MQ042 and MQ022 monochrome models (MG/RG/HSI). Now users can use them in Matlab without issues.
Change: Implemented XI_TRG_SEL_DUAL_EXPOSURE_HDR_INTERLINE, DualExposureHdrInterline for CMV50000. Now it is possible to control HDR on CMV50000 cameras.
Affected products: CB500, MX500
Change: Fix regression in 4.19.04 release. Now xiJ cameras can be opened again.
Affected products: MJ
Change: Fixed XI_PRM_DOWNSAMPLING / skipping implementation imperfection introduced in V4_17_57. Now cameras without decimation can use the XI_PRM_DOWNSAMPLING parameter.
Affected products: CB,MC,MX,MT,MJ
Change: Fixed default pixel format for CB654CG-GP-X8G3 camera. Now camera can be interfaced in Matlab and Halcon
Affected products: CB654
Change: Updated _GLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI setting from 1 to 0 in Linux builds to support older distributions. Now std::regex can be used if _GLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI is set to 0.
Change: Fixed an issue which made std::regex unusable in applications linked to libm3api on Linux. Now std::regex can be used if _GLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI is set to 1.
Change: Added possibility to set Device Output Bit Depth to 14 (transport). Now user can set Device output bit depth to 14 on all supported cameras.
Affected products: CB, MX, MT
Change: Improved PCIe camera reset on application crash. Now MX500 camera can be reopened without reboot after unclean application exit.
Affected products: CB,MX,MT
Change: Fixed on_autoExposureRefreshTimer() call in case gain or exposure parameters are not supported by camera. Now camtool will not crash upon start when using the CB042MG-GP camera model.
Affected products: CB042MG-GP
Change: Added possibility to set Device Output Bit Depth to 14. Now user can set Device output bit depth to 14 on all supported cameras.
Affected products: CB, MX, MT
Change: Added support for uint64 parameters in get_param function in python API.
Version: V4.18.04
Version: V4.18.02
Change: Added possibility to set Device Output Bit Depth to 14. Now user can set Device output bit depth to 14 on all supported cameras.Affected products: CB, MX, MT
Version: V4.18.00
Change: Added support for uint64 parameters in get_param function in python API.Change: Added AVX2 support to API image processing. Now demosaicing and unpacking is more efficient on CPU's which support AVX2.
Change: Increased maximum number of xiQ/xiD cameras on Linux and MacOS. Before there was maximum of 16 cameras being enumerated. Now up to 128 cameras can be used, as on Windows.
Affected products: MU,MQ,MR
Change: Fixed setting of XI_PRM_DOWNSAMPLING for cameras without decimation capabilities. Now cameras without decimation can use the XI_PRM_DOWNSAMPLING parameter. Before error was reported.
Affected products: CB,MC,MX,MT,MJ
Change: Fixed lens control focus movement for GenTL implementation. Now users can control lens focus movements using GenTL.
Affected products: CB, MX, MT
Change: Fixed image metadata saving in xiAPI-Python. Now white-balance (wb) coefficients are stored correctly.
Change: Fixed getting of binary value XI_PRM_GENTL_DATASTREAM_CONTEXT on GetParamString. Now pointers containing zero are copied properly.
Affected products: CB,MC,MX,MT,MJ
Change: Added general handling of not supported features. Now result is XI_NOT_SUPPORTED (xiAPI) or GC_ERR_NOT_AVAILABLE (GenICam) when parameter/feature is not supported by camera. Up to now the result might be OK/SUCCESS with some default value.
Affected products: CB,MC,MX,MT,MJ
Change: Fixed GetTimestamp size in xiAPIplus. Now it returns 64bit value as in xiAPI.
Change: Optimized time needed for xiOpenDevice on PCIe cameras. Now opening without auto bandwidth measurement is approximately 400ms shorter.
Affected products: MT,MX,CB
Change: Added sens.registers parameters to xiLib 32-bit. Now sensor registers can be accessed from LabVIEW
Change: Added check for minimum buffers needed for xiAPI. Now if less than 2 buffers is going to be used, xiStartAcquisition returns an error.
Affected products: CB,MC,MX,MT,MJ
Change: Fixed lock problem of Chainable object of xiCamTool. Now FFT & Averaging can be used without performance penalty.
Change: Enabled possibility to open multiple PCIe (CB,MX) and USB3Vision (MC) cameras in parallel (multi-thread). Now opening of multiple cameras is faster if each is opened (xiOpenDevice) through different thread.
Affected products: CB,MX,MC
Change: Added parameter searchbox into xiCamTool. Now right-hand side settings panel parameters and their values can be filtered.
Change: Removed usage of getSysTime in multiple functions, like bandwidth measurement. Now real-time can be changed even while bandwidth measurement.
Affected products: CB,MC,MX,MT,MJ
Change: Added new Samples to Software Package (Windows/Linux). Now there are multiple samples for xiAPI, xiAPIplus and xiAPIplusOpenCV in the Windows package.
Change: Fixed xiGetImage returning XI_TIMEOUT when system clock is set forward. Now time changes don't interfere with acquisition.
Change: Removed support for CURRERA*, MC004*, MC016* from API. Now they are not supported by API.
Change: Fixed acquisition hanging when system clock is set back. Now time changes don't interfere with data transfer.
Affected products: CB,MC,MX,MT,MJ
Change: Optimized performance of Sensor Defect plugin of xiCamTool. Now plugin operations are much faster - approx 6-200x depending on function (Open, Apply, Save...)
Change: Updated case when parameter XI_PRM_LENS_MODE with value XI_ON is called multiple times. Now API will not reset the connected lens after it was initialized successfully.
Affected products: CB,MX,MT
Change: Fixed possibility to set Trigger Delay in CamTool if acquisition is active. Now trigger delay can be changed while acquisition.
Change: Added USB zerocopy support to ARM64 build. Now CPU usage during USB3 transfers is lower on Tegra starting with L4T R32.1.
Affected products: CB,MC,MX,MT,MJ
Change: Removed executable stack flag in m3api library on Linux. Now it can be used in more hardened system configurations.
Change: Removed references to methods and objects deprecated in new OpenCV release, also added support for new image formats. Now xiApiPlusOcv is compatible with OpenCV 4 as well as previous releases.
Change: Enhanced detection of other applications using xiApi while starting xiCOP on Linux. Now this situation is correctly reported on more systems.
Change: Improved xiOpenDevice error code in case xiQ or xiMU camera is in use by other application. Now XI_RESOURCE_OR_FUNCTION_LOCKED is returned on all OSes for all camera families.
Affected products: MQ,MU
Change: Enhance error handling in case of failure to queue buffers. Now API library doesn't crash in these circumstances on Linux and other OSes.
Affected products: CB,MC,MX,MT,MJ
Change: Added error message when camera is blocked by other application. Now notice "device already opened" is printed.
Affected products: MQ,MU
Change: Fixed ximea python module version in Linux/OSX. Now it's correctly set to API package version.
Change: Added 'U3V' Device Type to xiLIB. Now xiC cameras can be run correctly in xiControl - Main.vi.
Affected products: MC
Change: Added new xiAPI parameters XI_PRM_GENTL_DATASTREAM_ENABLED and XI_PRM_GENTL_DATASTREAM_CONTEXT to acquire low level GenTL stream handle. Now users can implement their own acquisition routine based on the GenTL standard.
Affected products: CB,MC,MX,MT,MJ
Change: Added 'sens_calib.dat' and 'hyperspectral_cal_data' support to MX,CB cameras (e.g. MX). Now MX022HG cameras are capable to store calibration files in camera flash file system.
Affected products: MX
Change: Enhanced access to digital inputs (GPI) samples through parameters. Now application can get level of selected digital input (GPI) through XI_PRM_GPI_LEVEL_AT_IMAGE_EXP_START/END using XI_PRM_GPI_SELECTOR.
Affected products: CB,MC,MX,MT,MJ
Change: Fixed bug in app.MessageBox which causes CamTool to freeze. Now custom buttons can be added correctly to MessageBox from Lua script.
Change: Enhanced xiCOP output when saving a report file on Linux. Now errors and file path are reported.
Change: Fixed LineInverter parameter in GenTL implementation. Now inverted camera output modes can be set properly.
Affected products: MU,MQ,MD
Change: Added checking of installed Software Package before firmware update start. Now recent SP must be installed. Otherwise the firmware update is not possible.
Change: Enhanced bandwidth measurement precision on cameras with smaller (under 12MPix) sensors. Now bandwidth measurement is more precise on PCIe cameras. Value offset is at 2% closer to ideal throughput and stdev is 70% smaller on 1MPix cameras.
Affected products: CB,MX,MT
Change: Added Linux support for recent xiCOP improvements. Now users can fix those issues on Linux too.
Affected products: MQ
Change: Updated resolution for some cameras. Now values are included from sensor base.
Affected products: MQ022, MQ042
Change: Fixed incorrect reporting of ranges of region of interest for MX022 cameras. Now it is possible to set region of interest correctly.
Affected products: MX022
Change: Fixed sensor defect correction code. Now it works correctly also for sensor bit depths > 8.
Change: Enhanced bandwidth measurement precision on cameras with smaller (under 3MPix) sensors. Now bandwidth measurement is more precise on PCIe cameras (stdev of measurements is 6 times smaller).
Affected products: CB,MX,MT
Change: Fixed a rare crash in auto bandwidth calculation for xiMU cameras. Now xiOpenDevice works more robustly.
Affected products: MU9
Change: Added debounce control for MQ cameras to GenICam/GenTL. Now users can control the debounce properties of camera input pins using GenTL.
Affected products: MQ camera family.
Change: Added parameter info flags for reading settable, minimum, maximum and increment values. Now users can use them via the .NET interface.
Affected products: All XIMEA cameras.
Change: Fixed available GenTL pixel formats for CB500. Now CB500 will work with Matlab.
Affected products: CB500
Change: Increased the maximum possible value of frame burst count parameter from 10kilo to 2giga. Now it is 2^31-1
Affected products: CB,MC,MX,MT,MJ
Change: Improve compatibility of xiCOP and CamTool for ARM builds. Now they can be used on Nvidia Jetson AGX Xavier platform.
Change: Fixed internet connection evaluation. Now xiCOP will report issue when product information can not be downloaded from XIMEA servers.
Change: Added Linux-specific diagnostic tests to xiCOP. Now most common Linux issues are detected.
Change: Updated GenTL producer interface. Now PCIe cameras are supported in Mathworks Matlab.
Affected products: CB,MX,MT
Change: Added xiCOP to Linux API package for ARM64 platform. Now firmware can be updated and diagnostic report generated on systems such as NVIDIA Jetson TX2.
Change: Enhanced handling of defect list in API. The size was limited to 256KiB = ~16k defects. Now API has no limit. Now the camera flash memory size is the limit (typical 0.5-5MiB) depending on the camera used.
Change: Added xiCOP to Linux API package for x86_64 platform. Now firmware can be updated and diagnostic report generated on Linux.
Change: Added CamTool for ARM64. Now it can be used on platforms such as Nvidia Jetson TX2.
Change: Updated lens control aperture control with new parameter XI_PRM_LENS_APERTURE_INDEX. Now aperture can be controlled by motor step value.
Affected products: CB,MX,MT
Change: Updated lens aperture control for Sigma 15mm EX DG fisheye lens. Now error 40 (XI_IO_WRONG) should not be returned when aperture is set to full open or full close.
Affected products: CB,MX,MT
Change: Updated installation of Python integration on Linux. Now both python2 and python3 are detected.
Change: Added new parameter XI_PRM_TIEMSTAMP to read camera timestamp as 64 bit integer value. Now support for 64 bit integers to xiFAPI and xiAPI.NET is available.
Affected products: CB,MC,MX,MT,MJ
Change: Enabled usage of real camera timestamp for MU9 cameras in CamTool. Now Camtool uses real timestamp from MU9 camera instead of that from operating system. xiAPI implements MU9 timestamp since V4.17.02
Affected products: MU9
Change: Added support for TimeStampReset. Now TimeStamp in camera can be reset on several events. Software, GPI rising and falling edge, ... Required firmware version is 21.47 or higher.
Affected products: CB,MX,MT
Change: Updated Linux install script. Now desktop shortcuts can be used on Ubuntu 18.04.
Change: Added suppression of the Shutter Line on Luxima sensors. Now the Shutter Line is suppressed (it requires new FW - 21.45+).
Affected products: CB013xG-LX-X8G3, CB019xG-LX-X8G3, CB160xG-LX-X8G3
Change: Fixed xiApiPlusOcv error reporting. Before the error description was missing. Now error description is reported correctly.
Change: Fixed import ximea error in Python. Now missing data type is included in xiApiPython.
Change: Fixed HOST binning setting. Now the acquisition starts correctly after setting an invalid value.
Change: Fixed non-terminated string for xiGetParamString() on xiQ cameras. Now xiGetParamString() in combination with XI_PRM_DEVICE_USER_ID fills user buffer with zeros before copying the string.
Change: Fixed incorrect data type in xiAPI-Python. Now ximea package can be correctly imported to Python.
Change: Fixed open device of CB042xG-GP. Now the camera can be opened.
Affected products: CB042xG-GP
Change: Fixed Binning/Decimation patterns. Now the mono camera reports MONO and the color camera BAYER pattern.
Affected products: MC023CG_SY, MX023CG-SY-X2G2
Change: Enabled Framebuffer for Luxima sensor based cameras. Now the framebuffer is enabled when it is supported by FPGA FW.
Affected products: CB013xG-LX-X8G3, CB019xG-LX-X8G3
Change: Updated list of counters for some camera families. Now these camera families support additional counters.
Affected products: CB,MC,MX camera families
Change: Fixed bandwidth measurement in xiCOP for MX cameras. Now the bandwidth is correctly measured in xiCOP for all MX cameras.
Affected products: MX
Change: Removed "Sensor output channels" from Camtool. Now it is not visible in Camtool.
Change: Fixed incorrect value Sum from features BinningVerticalMode/BinningHorizontalMode. Now only value Average is supported.
Affected products: CB500xG-CM
Change: Enhanced XI_PRM_DEVICE_LOCATION_PATH for PCIe cameras on Linux. Now returned string indicates address on the PCI bus.
Affected products: cameras_FAPI
Change: Fixed resource leak on Linux. Now acquisition can be restarted many times without memory exhaustion.
Change: Added explicit error message when usbfs memory limitation is hit. Now error message is shown at console when usb memory issue.
Change: Fixed Width and Height ranges. Now the max values are divisible by the increments.
Affected products: CB,MC,MX,MT
Change: Improved the speed of the debayering algorithm. Now the debayering process is ~2.5 times faster.
Version: V4.16.00
Change: Migrated all changes from V4.15.34Change: Fixed GPU_RAM usage. Now PCIe cameras are able to use GPU_RAM.
Affected products: MX,CB,MT
Change: Implemented zero-copy for USB cameras on Linux. Now transfer will be more CPU efficient because no memcpy is used for the data.
Affected products: MQ,MC
Change: Fixed closing of devices when opened at same time and they are on mixed interfaced. Now closing of devices does not cause crash
Affected products: CB,MX,MC,MT,MJ
Change: Fixed setting of XI_PRM_ACQ_BUFFER_SIZE_UNIT. Now XI_PRM_ACQ_BUFFER_SIZE_UNIT leads to XI_OK.
Affected products: CB,MX,MT
Change: Fixed start acquisition after setting of XI_RAW16 and XI_FRM_TRANSPORT_DATA. Now acquisition can be started even after such sequence of parameters settings.
Change: Fixed list of supported Downsampling Types for MC. Before some MC was not able to change downsampling to 2 in CamTool. Now all MC cameras are able to switch 1x1 and downsampling in CamTool.
Affected products: MC
Change: Changed CamTool settings dialog "Format". Now "Downsampling" will be shown with 1,2,4 and resolution e.g. (1024x768)
Change: Fixed xiStopAcuisition on Linux. Now it is possible to xiStopAcquisition on MC cameras under Linux.
Affected products: MC
Change: Added error on Software trigger when in TriggerWidth mode
Change: Fixed crash of xiCOP after update and refresh of xiB,xiX,xiC cameras. Now xiCOP keeps running after firmware update and camera disconnections.
Change: Enhanced compatibility of CamTool H.264 saving. Now VLC is capable to open mono h.264 videos.
Change: Fixed bugs in ROI define dialog. Now editing of ROI with invalidation of increments should be more consistent.
Change: Fixed auto enabling of Bandwidth_Limit_Mode after camera open. Now Bandwidth_Limit_Mode is automatically set to XI_ON after opening the camera (apply only when XI_PRM_AUTO_BANDWIDTH_CALCULATION=XI_ON).
Affected products: MC, CB, MX
Change: Changed policy for setting Bandwidth_Limit_Mode for application to XI_ON when limit should be active.
Affected products: MC, CB, MX
Change: Enhanced compatibility with AVI players for mono output by conversion to RGB as default. Now Matlab or VLC Player should be able to playback the mono AVI stream.
Change: Enhanced possibility to change user/factory defect lists. Now defect editor supports user and factory list selection.
Change: Added project for customer DNG sample application with library for all platforms. Now customer can create their own projects with possibility to convert XI_IMG to DNG format.
Change: Enhanced DNG compatibility.
Change: Fixed software image processing - sensor defect correction. Pixels on left edge are now corrected properly.
Affected products: MC, CB, MX
Change: Added support for controlling the parameter image row correction in camera
Affected products: CB, MX, MT