Vimba GigE TL Release Notes

Version: 1.9.5

Components and Version Reference

Component	Version
GigE Transport Layer (VimbaGigETL.cti)	1.9.5*
Vimba GigE Filter Driver	2.5.11*

Hardware Requirements

PC or laptop with 1 GHz x86 processor or better.
ARMv8-compatible 64-bit embedded system, for example, Jetson Xavier.
MacBookPro or Mac mini with M2 chip

Remark (for macOS, see the macOS release notes):

When using Allied Vision GigE cameras, a built-in Gigabit Ethernet network interface or Gigabit Ethernet network card (one or more) is required.

Installation

The Vimba GigE Transport Layer is part of the Vimba X SDK. Linux: For instructions on how to install this module, please refer to the Vimba X for Linux or ARM64 Release Notes.

Correlations with other Allied Vision Software Packages

You can install and use Vimba and Vimba X on the same host. Windows: We recommend using our GigE filter driver with Vimba X or Vimba only.

Known Issues

When experiencing trouble with image acquisition on Linux, try to increase the priority of your application with “sudo -E nice -n -20 ”.
A change of the available camera access modes cannot be reported for cameras in different subnets or with misconfigured IP addresses.
GigE cameras may be listed on a wrong Ethernet interface.
If many dropped frames occur especially with a small ROI, set GVSP Timeout to a higher value.

GigE Filter Driver:

If Vimba and Vimba X are installed on the same system: The Filter Driver provided with Vimba X overwrites Vimba’s Filter Driver. If you still work with Vimba: Use the included Driver Installer to deactivate and activate the correct Filter Driver.
Using other filter drivers additionally to the included GigE Filter Driver (including the Filter Driver of the Vimba SDK) may cause issues, even a blue screen.
Disabling the Vimba GigE Filter Driver while it is in use might lead to unexpected behavior up to blue screen.

Changes and release history

Changes in version 1.9.5

GigETL

Improved Adjust PacketSize

Changes in version 1.9.3

GigETL

Added Event support

Filter Driver:

Bug fixes

Changes in version 1.9.2

GigETL

Fixed: Vimba X freezes if the NIC is disabled during image acquisition
Set camera to Extended ID mode if supported
Support Extended Status Codes Packet Resend

GigE Filter Driver:

Supports extended status codes packet resend

Changes in version 1.9.1

GigETL

Display name: AVT GigE TL (instead of Vimba GigE TL)
Scheduled Action Commands support
Chunk support

Filter Driver

Chunk Support
Bug fixes

Changes in version 1.9.0

GigETL

Changed behaviour of endianess handling (values must match host endianness in little-endian), for better compatibility with third-party software. Affected features that now have a changed byte order:
- Config Mode
- IP-related features including MulticastIPAddress
- Action Commands
New feature DeviceUpdateTimeout (only applicable of GigE discovery is switched to Broadcast)
New GVSPMaxLookBack default value (0 instead of 1) for improved packet resend handling
Fixed: High memory usage during performance bottleneck (Nonpaged pool growing with multiple GigE cameras)
Fixed: Action commands caused an error message in the console log
Fixed: MulticastIPAdress range, better compatibility with third-party software

GigE Filter Driver

Reduced memory allocations
Hidden statistics

Changes in version 1.8.2

GigETL and GigE Filter Driver

Fixed: Vimba Viewer did not show single frame acquisitions (5 GigE)
Improved timeout handling (5 GigE)
Fixed limitations of certain GVSPPacketSize values
New GigETL feature: GVSPHostReceiveBufferSize (SO_RCVBUF, usable with the socket driver only) replaces GVSPHostReceiveBuffers (which is still usable in existing applications).

Changes in version 1.8.1

Prepared for use with 5 GigE Vision cameras

Changes in version 1.8.0

Standard-compliant ForceIP features instead of Allied Vision custom features
Prepared for use with extended IDs

Changes in version 1.7.1

Improved resend handling
By default, packet resends are enabled
Other bug fixes

Vimba Driver Installer

Internal changes

Changes in version 1.7.0

GenTL 1.5 support

Changes in version 1.6.0

Fixed: GVSPPacketSize now updates as expected (Linux)
Other minor bug fixes

Vimba GigE Filter Driver

Windows 10: Improved compatibility and performance with third-party filter drivers.

Installer and driver

New certificates for installer and driver (Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1)

Changes in version 1.5.0

Added functionality for Action Commands
Fixed sending packet request after invalid timeout on Linux
The parameter BUFFER_INFO_DELIVERED_IMAGEHEIGHT is filled correctly
VimbaGigEFilter (Windows 10 x64/x86 only):
- Fixed incompatibility with Intel 10 Gbit Ethernet cards (520/540/710)
- Changed buffer list handling, driver removes streaming packets from buffer list:
  - Decreases system load formerly caused by stream packet duplication
  - Prevents additional system load when firewall is enabled
  - Does not allow Wireshark to see stream packets
- Packet resend system load minimized
- Fixed missing filterclass in driver inf
- Fixed double counting of received packets
- Fixed incompatibility with wireless network cards (removed binding to WAN)
- Fixed incompatibilities with VPN connections (filter now optional)

Changes in version 1.4.4

-Bug fixes

Changes in version 1.4.2

Bug fixes

Changes in version 1.4.1

Solved cases where network problems led to a lost camera
Fixed range of GevHeartbeatInterval and GevHeartbeatTimeout
Bug fixes for multi-camera usage and missing cleanup

Changes in version 1.3.1

Support of GenICam GenTL standard 1.3
New GenTL SFNC feature categories BufferHandlingMode and StreamInformation
Separate features for heartbeat timeout and heartbeat interval
Adjustable device discovery waiting time
Fixed issues with alike serial numbers
Fixed issues with many network interfaces on Linux
Small bug-fixes to the Driver Installer

Changes in version 1.2.0

Improved performance in case of many events
Restriction to eight cameras removed
Corrected Heartbeat feature
Fixed support for small packets

Changes in version 1.1.0

Added feature DiscoveryBroadcastMode to the Interface module
Changed the documentation format to PDF
Slight changes for Linux compatibility