Release Notes¶
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Robot Operating System Software (ROS) updated to latest “Foxy” release
Secure Device Onboarding replaced with open-source FIDO Device Onboarding
Added Intel Edge Conductor
Updated Intel® Edge Insights for Industrial from v2.5 to v2.6
Built ECI features on upstream Debian.org (buster and buster-backports) packages
apt-get
anddpkg-builddeps
Replaced all Deby target image variants with Isar compatible to LTS GNU/Debian 10 (Buster)
Updated RTS Hypervisor to R5.4.01.27752 (Add PCI MSI-X hypervisor emulation for Intel® Atom™ x6000 Series [Elkhart Lake] Ethernet GbE Controllers PCI ID
8086:4BA0
or8086:4BB0
, add #AC on Split Lock, a Time Coordinated Computing (TCC) feature, can be selectively turned on or off.)Updated Linux Ethernet 802.1Q TSN frameworks to v0.8.9
Updated IEC-62541 OPC-UA runtime library
Updated Robot Operating System 2 to “Foxy” release
Updated Linux PREEMPT_RT baseline to Intel LTS (5.4/preempt-rt) v5.4.115-rt57 [id-b428b24]
Updated Linux Xenomai 3.1.1 w/ ipipe-core-5.4.115-x86-4 baseline to Intel LTS (5.4/yocto) v5.4.115-ipipe [id-57f2d38]
Updated Intel® In-band Manageability
Updated Trusted VM for IoT Platforms
Updated Intel® Time Coordinated Computing Tools (Intel® TCC Tools)
Updated ACRN Hypervisor to v2.5
Improved Edge Control Procotol Bridge OPC UA (part 4) UADP frame Plug-ins for IEEE 802.1Q-2018 Enhanced Scheduled Traffic (EST)
Improved Edge Control Procotol Bridge OPC UA security
Added support for CANopen
Added various fixes on EHL BSP
Updated Linux PREEMPT_RT baseline to Intel LTS (5.4/preempt-rt) v5.4.61-rt37 [id-e00ce2d]
Updated Linux Xenomai 3.1 ipipe-x86-5.4.y baseline to Intel LTS (5.4/yocto) v5.4.66-ipipe [id-698dc04]
Updated Intel® Time Coordinated Computing Tools (Intel® TCC Tools) for Intel Atom® x6000E Series processors
Updated IEC-62541 OPC-UA sanity-check testes BKM to the latest OSADL OPC UA PubSub over TSN Project open62541-based TSN test-framework.
Updated Linux Ethernet 802.1Q TSN frameworks to support the latest Intel® Ethernet Controllers: Intel® Atom™ x6000 Series [Elkhart Lake] Ethernet GbE Controllers
[8086:4b32]
and[8086:4ba0]
integrated-PCI devices and i225-LM[8086:15f2]
XDP, PPS PHC I/O and PCIe PTM enabled device.
Intel® Time Coordinated Computing Tools (Intel® TCC Tools) for 11th Gen Intel® Core™ Series processors
Real Time Data Agent provides unified and real-time way to write/read/store/visualize time series data
Added non-root user to provide restricted permissions (Users and Permissions in ECI)
Added plain-Kubernetes support
Added Sign & Encryption support to EC Protocol Bridge OPC UA plug-in
Added additional Docker microservice examples/templates
Added BPF Compiler Collection (BCC) for microservice XDP packets processing offload support
Added ACRN VM Profile tool
Updated Linux PREEMPT_RT baseline to Intel LTS (5.4/preempt-rt) v5.4.59-rt36 [id-3747758]
Updated Linux Xenomai 3.1 ipipe-x86-5.4.y baseline to Intel LTS (5.4/yocto) v5.4.61-ipipe [id-fb165c2]
Updated RTS Hypervisor to v5.3.01.26202
Updated ACRN Hypervisor to v2.3
Updated Linux Ethernet 802.1Q TSN frameworks support to the latest Intel® Ethernet Controllers: i225-LM PCIe
[8086:15f2]
and TGL-U Integrated-PCI[8086:a0ac]
devicesUpdated Linux eXpress Data Path (XDP) support to the Intel® Ethernet Controllers: i210 PCIe and TGL-U Integrated-PCI
[8086:a0ac]
devicesUpdated IEC-62541 OPC-UA runtime library
Updated Systemd TSN services
Updated Robot Operating System 2 to “Foxy” release
Updated Intel® In-band Manageability
Improved Edge Control Protocol Bridge runtime determinism
Reference microservice templates
MQTT and OPC UA Plug-ins for Edge Control Protocol Bridge
Linux eXpress Data Path (XDP) for high-performance network packets processing offload
EtherCAT Enablekit to simplify EtherCAT configuration
KVM Hypervisor open-source type-2 hypervisor
PLCopen Motion Control Library to aid in development of motion control applications
Intel® In-Band Manageability for software lifecycle support
Intel® Castle Lake for application orchestration
Preempt RT Kernel for improved determinism
Isolated CPUs for improved performance and determinism
A suite of benchmarking tools to characterize performance
CODESYS Linux Runtime service support (Software PLC)
Docker Daemon service
OPC-UA library with Publish/Subscribe support
TSN Reference Software for deterministic networking
Xenomai real-time framework
EtherCAT Master Controller utilizing the IgH EtherCAT Master Stack
RTS Hypervisor commercial type-1 hypervisor
ACRN Hypervisor open-source type-1 hypervisor