Release v23.06

New features

1. Implemented IMTL docker images with IMTL V23.04 release
2. Added ubuntu20.04 and ubuntu22.04 docker images of IMTL
3. Enabled all the IMTL tests with SPR embedded NIC 810
4. Integrated the new security lifecycle tools (hadolint)
5. Enabled ubuntu22.04 support for QAT

Ingredients upgrade

1. Upgraded the OpenSSL library to 3.0.7 due to the EOL of 1.1.1 version
2. Changed name of “SG2” to “Flex”
3. Upgraded scripts to support IMTL and Flex
4. Upgraded OWT from 5.0.x to 5.1.x
5. Upgraded components for the QAT1.7 validation environment

Discontinued

1. Cleaned up centos7 for QAT platform
2. Cleaned up centos7 for Xeon platform

Bug fix

1. Corrected documents about invalid link, inappropriate release version
2. Upgraded QAT components to pass the docker images building and the validation
3. Upgraded IMTL firmware mount path and added libstdc++6 to IMTL docker images

Release v23.1

Updates:

• Tested Xeon images on Sapphire Rapids server
• Enable Flex Media Delivery and Analytics images
• Enable test infrastructure testing Flex media analytics & transcoding capabilities
• Enable support for Ubuntu22.04 Images
• Discontinue Ubuntu18.04 & Centos-7(except for SG1) Image
• Discontinue XeonE3 & VCAC-A images
• Remove openssl building from source from most of the images except for QAT images
• Component upgrades for most of the templates including OpenVINO to 2022.2
• Test fixes due to version changes for aom, av1, dav1d testcases

Version Upgrades:

• FFMPEG to n4.4.3
• Media SDK to 22.5.4
• OpenVINO(both dldt & Intel's distribution) to 2022.2.0
• intel-gmmlib to 22.3.0
• SVT-AV1 to v1.3.0
• OpenSSL to 1_1_1s
• NGINX to 1.22.0
• NGINX FLV to 1.2.10
• NGINX FLV PATCHES to 0.4
• cmake to 3.23.3
• libvpx to 1.12.0
• libaom to 3.4.0
• libpaho to 1.3.10
• libvmaf to 2.3.1
• dav1d to 0.9.2
• json-c to 0.16-20220414
• jsonhpp to v3.10.5
• KAFKA to 1.9.2
• Gstreamer to 1.20.3
• gst-gva to 1.6
• gst-video-analytics to 1.6
• Paho to 1.3.10
• srs to v4.0-r1
• meson to 0.63.0
• OPENCL GMMLIB to 22.1.3
• OPENCL IGC CORE to 1.0.11485
• OPENCL IGC OCL to 1.0.11485
• OPENCL INTEL OCL to 22.30.23789
• openh264 to v2.3.0

Release v22.3

Updates:

• Tested Xeon images on 3rd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors also known as Icelake
• Update gstreamer-video analytics tests to use newer models.
• Fix SSL error when downloading NASM package on Centos7 images.
• Fix SRS tag to v4.0-b4 as the v4.0.161 is deprecated.
• Enable Ubuntu20.04 support for Xeon-OWT images.
• Clean up unused templates/components.
• Bug fixes

Version Upgrades:

• OpenVINO(both dldt & Intel's distribution) to 2021.4.2
• DlStreamer to 1.5.3
• OpenCV to 4.5.3-openvino-2021.4.2
• Kafka to 1.8.0
• Open Webrtc Toolkit(OWT) to 5.0.1
• IPP Crypto to 2021.4 (QAT)
• QAT Engine to 0.6.8 (QAT)
• QAT NGINX to 0.4.6 (QAT)
• QAT Zip to 1.0.6 (QAT)
• SVT-VP9 to v0.3.0
• OpenSSL to 1_1_1l
• OpenCL to 21.37.20939
• Meson to 0.59.1
• libaom to 3.1.2
• source build of cmake to 3.21.3

Release v21.6.1

Release Notes:

• OpenVINO/dldt template bug fixes
• Enable SVT HEVC with FLV support by patching FFmpeg

Release v21.6

Release Notes:

• Enable Ice Lake Platform with Xeon/SG1/QAT images validated on ICX systems
• Introducig QAT/NGINX_SW Image optimized for ICX systems with AVX512
• Inroduce vmaf images for video quality assessment on Xeon/XeonE3/SG1 platforms
• Retire graphics images
• Upgrade Gstreamer framework to 1.19.1
• Upgrade SVT-HEVC to v1.5.1
• Upgrade SVT-AV1 to v0.8.7
• Upgrade SVT-VP9 to v0.2.2
• Upgrade fdk-acc to 2.0.2
• Upgrade libx265to 3.4
• Upgrade libvpx to 1.10.0
• Upgrade libogg to 1.3.5
• README Changes
• Bug Fixes

Release v21.3.1

Release Notes:

• Enable vaapi for Gstgva
• Upgrade Ffmpeg to 4.2.4
• Enable gvatrack for ffmpeg images.
• Upgrade OpenSSL to 1.1.1j
• Upgrade OWT to latest release - v5.0
• Upgrade OWT JavaScript SDK to v5.0
• README Changes

Known issues:

• OWT/OWT360 ubuntu 20.04 not ready yet
• Intel ipsecmb m4 is ready, but feature is not ready in Dockers

Release v21.3

Release Notes:

• Add SG1 platform support
• Add SG1 media FFmpeg Dockerfiles
• Add Ubuntu20.04 support, retire Ubuntu16.04 and VCA2 platform
• Add media SRS Dockerfiles for the IP-camera streaming support
• M4 templates v2.0 with various ingredients upgraded to latest version
• OWT/OWT360 CentOS7 & Ubuntu18.04 support, retire CentOS7.6
• Upgrade SVT-AV1 to v0.8.6
• Upgrade Media driver to v20.2.0, Media SDK to v20.2.1, libva to v2.8.0, gmmlib to v20.2.5
• Upgrade OpenCV to v4.5.1
• Upgrade OpenVINO to v2021.2
• Upgrade QAT engine to v0.6.4, QAT Nginx to v0.4.4, QATzip to v1.0.2.
• Update OpenSSL to v1.1.1i
• Upgrade Nginx to v1.18.0, Nginx http flv to v1.2.8
• Upgrade Dav1d to v0.7.1
• Upgrade libaom to v2.0.0
• Upgrade libogg to v1.3.4
• Upgrade libopus to v1.3.1
• Upgrade libvorbis to v1.3.7
• Upgrade x265 to v3.3
• Remove lamemp3 support
• Add GST gdkpixbufoverlay

Bug fixes:

• #716 - Add modprobe to HDDL image
• #710 - Paho mqtt enable after v2.0 migration
• #699 - Fix ffmpeg vaapi hevc encoder issue
• #697 – QAT engine fix
• #696 - SVT AV1 path bug fix
• #689 - Fix gst test issue: unable to load driver: swrast_dri.so
• #687 - Gvapython fixes for Xeon analytics images
• #677 - Fix owt issues
• #676 – FFmpeg qsv fix with msdk
• #673 - SG1 FFMPEG VAAPI encoding failure
• #669 - Build failed: missed gst OpenGL dependencies
• #640 - CentOS build issue due to old version cmake
• #616 - Add customized meson for ubuntu 18.04 images
• #610 - Dav1d build failed

Known issues:

• #722 - VAAPI doesn't work for gstgva(VCAC-A/XeonE3)
• OWT/OWT360 ubuntu 20.04 not ready yet
• Intel ipsecmb m4 is ready, but feature is not ready in Dockers

Release v20.10

Release Notes:

• Upgrade CentOS Media/Analytics/Grpahics images to CentOS7, removed 7.4/7.5/7.6
• Support OpenVINO v2021.1, DL Streamer v1.2.1(Ubuntu 16.04 still on OpenVINO v2020.4, DL Streamer v1.0.1)
• Upgrade Openssl to v1.1.1h
• Upgrade OpenCV to v4.5.0
• Upgrade SVT AV1 to v0.8.5
• Upgrade SVT-HEVC to v1.5.0
• Adding vainfo to OWT images
• Replace ossp uuid with libuuid
• Upgrade Paho-MQTT to v1.3.6
• Upgrade dlstreamer to v1.2.1 (Ubuntu16.04 images remaining on v1.0.1 due to lack of compatibility)

Bug fixes:

• Test script fix for supporting diffrent OpenVINO version #593 #591
• Fix Snyk vulnerables #585 #570
• Fix OWT360 image build issue #573
• Install dbus and tzdata in a separate step to ensure timestamp alignment #568

Known issues

• Incorrect way of adding a library path only to python3 #546 , change or remove PYTHONPATH environment variable as workaround for the issue related.
• Add support "make generate_readme" for owt dev image #557
• Make update_link doesn't work correctly for VCA2 images #590

Release v20.7

Release Notes:

• Upgrade OpenVINO to v2020.4
• Upgrade OpenCV to 4.4.0
• Upgrade SVT AV1 to v0.8.4
• Upgrade SVT VP9 to v0.2.1
• Upgrade OWT to 4.3.x and dev image support
• Upgrade GST VA plugin to v1.0.1
• Upgrade Gstramer to 1.16.2
• Upgrade FFMPEG to n422
• Enable OpenCV related filters in FFmpeg
• Change owt-immersive image naming to owt360
• Add CHECKPOINT_DISABLE=1 to setup_weave.sh

Bug fixes:

• Open vino tools build fix - No module named 'skbuild' #549
• Fix model optimizer by wheel #544
• Ubuntu analytics image build fix - json-c/json.h: No such file or directory #538 #537 #533
• Remove extra targets for deployment manager #510
• Expose host network based on type of tests #509
• Remove redundant copy of libs from openvino template #507
• Fixing UTF-8 encoding for python3 #502

Known issues

• Incorrect way of adding a library path only to python3 #546 , change or remove PYTHONPATH environment variable as workaround for the issue related.

Release v20.4

Release Notes:

• Upgrade OpenVINO to v2020.2
• Upgrade FFmpeg video analytics plugin to v0.5
• Upgrade GStreamer video analytics plugin to v1.0
• Upgrade SVT AV1 to v0.8.3
• Upgrade SVT AV1 CDN patch to v0.4
• Upgrade SVT VP9 to v0.2.0
• Update nginx to 1.16.1
• Automated Dockerhub README generation and uploading
• Use OpenVINO template to generate hddldaemon image
• GST VAAPI to include lock patch
• Add dldt tools to dev images
• Misc cmake/make script improvements
• Enhance setup_weavenet.sh for multiple identical VCAC-A nodes

Bug fixes:

• Fix ogg and vorbis resource server down issue. #493
• Remove sudo in build scripts #486
• Gvaidentify fix for gst video anlytics #482
• Qat chown for build issue fix. #480
• GST vaapi to include lock patch #456
• Fix Warning: excess arguments to builtin ifelse ignored. #454
• Optimized and fix issue for generate_readme.py #453
• Fixing inconsistent kafka issue #452
• Fix checkinstall error #445
• Fix media driver build failure caused by gcc upgraded to 7.5.0
• Dldt protobuf fix for removing redundant protobuf #442
• hddl: fix ov_hddl_init restart issues #433
• Fix swarm script for multiple VCAC-As #429