Difference between revisions of "Release notes"

Revision as of 00:42, 16 January 2008

Release numbering

The Elphel software is released in several forms:

1. - Live DVD including firmware released at the time LiveDVD was created and software to update the camera firmware to the later release using downloaded firmware image.
2. - Source tarball on SourceForge
3. - Binary images + installation scripts
4. - Source code in CVS.

The software releases on SourceForge (source tarballs, binary images) have 3 dot-separated release numbers, like elphel353-7.1.5.tar.gz for the source code or image353-2.10-7.1.5.tar.gz for binary images to be copied to the camera flash memory

The most recent (and definitely "unstable") software is available on CVS at Sourceforge. The software available only from the CVS has 4 dot-separated numbers, the thirst three matching the last version released as a tarball distribution on SourceForge.

elphel353-7.1.7.5

• fixed old (since porting to 353 from the 333) histogram calculation bug in the FPGA - of the 4 histogram window parameters (used, among others, by auto-exposure) only the bottom margin (top+height) was used, other 3 margins were equal to zero. Current FPGA version (can be tested by the "fpcf -r 13" command) is 0x3533013. To revert to the previous 0x3533012 you will need to replace both /etc/x353.bit and /etc/init.d/fpga files, taken from the older release (i.e. 7.1.7)--Andrey.filippov 02:42, 16 January 2008 (CST)
• fixed too long (used second line) "Streamer Status" message in camvc as well as (sometimes) long response while waiting fro streamer status.--Andrey.filippov 02:42, 16 January 2008 (CST)

elphel353-7.1.7.4

• added timelapse mode to camogm ---Andrey.filippov 23:07, 14 January 2008 (CST)

elphel353-7.1.7.3

• Added librt.so.1 for support pdo_sqlite on Camera --Landy 12:30, 13 Jan 2008 (CST)
• fixed header files in autoexposure files (previous version did not build) --Landy 12:30, 13 Jan 2008 (CST)

elphel353-7.1.7.2

• added elphel_autoexposure_get() function to elphel php extension --Andrey.filippov 23:53, 11 January 2008 (CST)

elphel353-7.1.7.1

• Connected auto-exposure to PHP extension --Andrey.filippov 01:50, 11 January 2008 (CST)

elphel353-7.1.7

• New installation script functionality - it is possible now to strip ported applications from their CVS files/directories that are not compatible with the Elphel software that uses same files to maintain camera-specific changes applied to the original distributions--Andrey.filippov 00:15, 10 January 2008 (CST)
• Added PHP extension for white balancing of the camera images--Andrey.filippov 00:15, 10 January 2008 (CST)
• Fixed calculation of the minimal frame period compressor can handle (it was 762 - like in "7.62mm" instead of 768=256*3)--Andrey.filippov 00:15, 10 January 2008 (CST)

elphel353-7.1.6.6

• enabled sqlite 2.x extension on PHP --Landy 8:59, 7 Jan 2008 (CST)
• added extension on PHP to sqlite 3.x --Landy 8:59, 7 Jan 2008 (CST)

elphel353-7.1.6.5

• added sqlite3 to camera --Landy 0:15, 28 December 2007 (CST)

elphel353-7.1.6.4

• fixed mmap/cache bug I was blaming Axis for--Andrey.filippov 01:40, 13 December 2007 (CST)
• fixed old bug related to sensor reset, several other minor ones in the driver.--Andrey.filippov 01:40, 13 December 2007 (CST)
• reflash.php now unmounts /mnt/.store used to save some parameters during reflash--Andrey.filippov 18:38, 14 December 2007 (CST)
• check IP of NFS server, and use by default 192.168.0.15 if fail--Spectr 03:15, 26 December 2007 (CST)

elphel353-7.1.6.3

• added NET_FOLDER to use this folder and IP of request source--Spectr 17:28, 11 December 2007 (CST)
• removed scripts for "old" reflashing method with the button (flashit etc.)--Spectr 15:04, 10 December 2007 (CST)
• alpha-version of the patch to fix Ethernet-bag in the Axis driver: http://mhonarc.axis.se/dev-etrax/msg09202.html

elphel353-7.1.6.2

• Fixed some problems with data transfer between kernel and user space (for PHP extension) over mmap (cache coherency)--Andrey.filippov 14:45, 6 December 2007 (CST)
• Collected most of the PHP scripts to /packages/web/353/phph_top directory--Andrey.filippov 14:45, 6 December 2007 (CST)
• Added camera_demo.php - script that programs and starts camera without use of ccam.cgi--Andrey.filippov 14:45, 6 December 2007 (CST)
• Changed ports that servers are listening to. Now lighttpd (that uses PHP in FastCGI mode) responds to both port 81 and 80 (default), legacy Boa is moved to port 82--Andrey.filippov 14:45, 6 December 2007 (CST)

elphel353-7.1.6

• added RTSP support in DVR--Spectr 19:19, 3 December 2007 (CST)
• added mii-diag - tools to configure and monitor transceiver managment registers for network interface--Spectr 15:13, 5 December 2007 (CST)

elphel353-7.1.5.6

• Moved php-fcgi to usr/local/bin, fixed support of additional modules, added "Hello world" extension and support scripts to create ones.--Andrey.filippov 22:41, 28 November 2007 (CST)
• added /usr/local/lib patch in the tools/build/scripts/mkprod|uclibc_wrapper files--Spectr 16:30, 28 November 2007 (CST)
• changed default resolution to maximum (really, to 4000x4000)--Spectr 13:30, 30 November 2007 (CST)
• added "wide" resolutions: 1920x1080 and 1280x720--Spectr 13:30, 30 November 2007 (CST)

elphel353-7.1.5.5

• added camogm program to record video/images on internal HDD and other storage media--Andrey.filippov 10:05, 19 November 2007 (CST)
• changed the bash interpreter mode to "--posix" in './configure' script--Spectr 14:42, 19 November 2007 (CST)
• added in the 'pt_split' script generation of the 'list' file to firmware images directory, to check archive--Spectr 19:08, 19 November 2007 (CST)
• added "a=x-dimensions:width,height" field in SDP description in streamers--Spectr 14:23, 21 November 2007 (CST)

elphel353-7.1.5.4

• Installed libogg and added a new application - camogm to record video/images on the camera hard drive and other media.--Andrey.filippov 10:05, 19 November 2007 (CST)
• Added commands to Circbuf (and Imgsrv) to view current circbuf usage--Andrey.filippov 10:05, 19 November 2007 (CST)
• astreamer: use timestamps from the circbuf
• restore work of firmware with reflashing from LiveDVD

elphel353-7.1.5.3

1. fix FPS parameter in streamer - changes in drivers in streamer interface

elphel353-7.1.5.1

1. added reflash.php script that allows initiating camera firmware update from the NFS server.
2. bug fix in the streamer (multicast addresses)
3. fixed build problems for the systems where 'dash' is used as shell (i.e. Ubuntu and derivatives) - the shell scripts/Makefiles used to build Elphel software now specify '#!/bin/bash' instead of just '#!/bin/sh', so you do not need to change links in your Ubuntu system.

elphel353-7.1.5

1. Bug fixes, including Known_bugs that lead to the 1x1 pixel ("no image available") images being returned instead of the real ones.
2. Initial Support for Elphel Model 354-11 camera and precise synchronization ("locking") of multiple Model 353 cameras making them useful for the stereo imaging

elphel353-7.1.3

Changed power control in 363 cameras, reduced peak power to 12.5W so cameras work with standard PoE switches (15.4W)

elphel353-7.1.2

Release dedicated to support model 363 cameras as described in http://wiki.elphel.com/index.php?title=Programming_363 on Elpphel wiki. several minor bug fixes in other code.

It also starts a new repository in the CVS - http://elphel.cvs.sourceforge.net/elphel/elphel353-7.1/

New features:

• camera synchronization over the dedicated cabling
• alternating shutter sequences
• additional driver interface to be called from PHP scripts
• new straightforward interface (small PHP scripts) to control camera acquisition modes and triggering - triggering modes and triggering itself.