CHANGELOG.md

Changelog for Nerian Vision Software Release
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6.0.0 (2018-06-07)
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* New network protocol (not backwards compatible; requires firmware >= 2.0.0)
* Dropped support for SP1
* Discovery of devices on the local network
* Re-transmission of UPD packets in case of packet loss
* Added example for server application with libvisiontransfer
* Added dropped frames display to NVCom
* Compatibility improvements to GenTL producer

5.2.0 (2018-03-29)
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* NVCom improvements:
    * New tool for displaying 3D coordinates
    * Added support for sending 12-bit image data
    * Fixed possible crash in full screen mode
* libvisiontransfer improvements:
    * Fixed infinite timeouts in ImageTransfer
    * Added deep copy functionality for ImagePair
* GenTL producer
    * Fixed path installation on windows to be compatible
      with other GentL producers

5.1.0 (2018-02-01)
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* Added functionality for time stamp recording in NVCom
* Improved reliability of input image transmission in NVCom
* Added support for binary PLY files
* Fixed destruction of ImagePair while writing PLY files
* TCP streams no longer require a client port

5.0.1 (2017-10-18)
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* Fixed synchronization issue in AsyncTransfer
* Fixed PGM output on Windows for ImagePair
* Fixed image data modifications during PGM output

5.0.0 (2017-09-29)
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* Added support for SceneScan
* Added support for Jumbo Frames
* Support for 12-bit image data
* Renamed to Vision Software Release
* Renamed SpCom to NVCom
* Fixed possible display stall bug in NVCom

4.1.5 (2017-05-07)
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* Added application icon to SpCom
* Compatibility fixes to GenTL producer
* New sample data for GenTL producer test builds

4.1.4 (2017-04-12)
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* Added example program for MATLAB
* Fixed reading / writing of paths with non-ASCII characters with SpCom
  on Windows
* Allow recording of more than 10,000 frames in SpCom

4.1.3 (2017-03-30)
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* Compatibility fixes to GenTL producer. Now compatible with MATLAB

4.1.2 (2017-03-27)
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* Fixed possible image reception stall when reconfiguring SP1
* Removed restrictions to image size when compiling with SSE or AVX2

4.1.1 (2017-03-09)
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* Fixed critical bug that causes image reception problems on Windows 10

4.1.0 (2017-02-15)
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* Fixed erroneous subpixel decoding of disparity maps
* GenTL producer now supports multi-part data streams
* GenTL producer now has a dedicated virtual device for right camera images
* Added an example for HALCON 13
* Both HALCON examples now visualize the 3D point cloud
* SpCom build fix for older CMake versions

4.0.0 (2016-01-17)
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* New network protocol for SP1 firmware 3.0.0
* Support for variable disparity range
* Added zoom and fullscreen support to SpCom
* Fixed display stall bug in SpCom
* Build fixes for ARM

3.0.1 (2016-10-13)
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* Fixed build problem for some Linux systems

3.0.0 (2016-10-07)
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* New protocol with lower performance overhead
* Support for larger image resolutions
* Qt GUI for SpCom
* SpCom supports saving of 3D point clouds
* New color coding scheme for SpCom
* Zoom functionality for SpCom

2.1.7 (2016-07-08)
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* Compatibility fix for non-AVX CPUs for binary windows builds

2.1.6 (2016-05-18)
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* Fixed possible receive buffer overflow in libvisiontransfer
* Build-fix for cross compilation of libvisiontransfer

2.1.5 (2016-03-17)
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* Improved parallelization for AsyncTransfer in libvisiontransfer
* Fixed possible duplicate write of captured frames in spcom
* Fixed possible problem with captured file numbering in spcom

2.1.4 (2016-03-11)
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* Fixed network exceptions on Windows 10
* Lazy initialization of receive thread in libvisiontransfer

2.1.3 (2016-03-07)
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* Improved installation procedure for Windows and Linux

2.1.2 (2016-02-12)
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* Improved parallelism for libvisiontransfer
* Fixed inaccurate frame rate display of spcom for Windows builds

2.1.1 (2016-01-12)
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* Fix for image widths that are not a multiple of 64

2.1.0 (2015-12-08)
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* Added a GenICam GenTL producer that encapsulates libvisiontransfer
* Minor compilation fixes

2.0.0 (2015-11-23)
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* Major clean-up and simplification of all interfaces
* Image pairs are now stored in the new class ImagePair
* Transmission / reception of q-Matrix, timestamp and sequence number
* Right image can now have 8-bit color depth
* Support for image reception and transmission on the same connection
* Several network optimizations
* Internal refactoring