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Release Notes

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ECI v3.0ECI v2.6ECI v2.5ECI v2.1ECI v2.0ECI v1.5ECI v1.0

Major changes to ECI 3.0:

• ECI 3.0 adopts a Debian strategy, where components are distributed as Deb packages for Debian and Ubuntu.

• Yocto-based monolithic images are no longer supported, except for legacy-poky-acrn which is retained for backwards compatibility.

ECI 3.0 distributes the following Linux Intel LTS kernels:

Distribution	Linux kernel type	Linux kernel version	Deb Packages	Source URL
Debian 11 (Bullseye)	Real-time PREEMPT_RT	5.10.115-rt67	linux-headers-intel-rt linux-image-intel-rt linux-intel-rt	link
Debian 11 (Bullseye)	Xenomai/Dovetail	5.10.100	linux-headers-intel-xenomai linux-image-intel-xenomai linux-intel-xenomai	link
Debian 11 (Bullseye)	ACRN Hypervisor compatible	5.10.115	linux-headers-intel-acrn-sos linux-image-intel-acrn-sos linux-intel-acrn-sos	link
Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy Jellyfish)	Real-time PREEMPT_RT	5.15.36-rt41	linux-headers-intel-rt linux-image-intel-rt linux-intel-rt	link
Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy Jellyfish)	ACRN Hypervisor compatible	5.15.36	linux-headers-intel-acrn-sos linux-image-intel-acrn-sos linux-intel-acrn-sos	link

The following new components were added:

• Added 48-Hour Benchmark to measure system long-term performance

• Added KVM Hypervisor Deb packages and developer documentation

• Added 5G Celluar Modem kernel drivers

• Added WiFi 6E Module kernel drivers

• Added Schneider EcoRT Software PLC

• Added Robot Vision Libraries for vision-based robotic applications

• Added PQoS Helper to assist with using Cache Allocation Technology

The following components were removed:

• Removed graphical related Microservice Dockerfile Templates for ECI

• Removed Intel Castle Lake (Application Management)

Changes to non open-source components:

Component	Modification
ACRN launch scripts	Updated to be compatible with ACRN v3.0.1 and improve stability
Caterpillar benchmark	Modified to utilize cache more frequently Modified to use PQoS Helper
CODESYS Control for Linux	Updated to version 4.5.0.0
Edge Control Procotol Bridge	Updated to use latest open62541 library Added OPC UA Server plugin Improved stability
FIDO Device Onboarding (FDO)	Updated to be compatible with ECI Deb packages and latest open-source components
Intel® Time Coordinated Computing Tools	Updated to version 2022.1.0
Jitter benchmark	Modified to use PQoS Helper
Mega Benchmark	Modified to use PQoS Helper
Microservice Dockerfile Templates for ECI	Updated to utilize and be compatible with ECI 3.0 components
PLCopen Motion Control	Added new multi-axis demo Added ability to check cache miss Integrated Intel® Time Coordinated Computing Tools into application Improved stability
Real-Time Performance Measurement (RTPM)	Updated to version 1.9
Real-Time Systems Hypervisor	Updated to version v5.5.00.28607
Trusted Edge Platform	Updated to version 3.0
TSN End-Station Services	Updated services to fix repeatability issues and improve stability

Changes to open-source components:

Component	Deb Package	Modification
ACRN Hypervisor	eci-acrn	Updated to version 3.0.1
CANopen	canopen	Added 402 OD and enabled Service Data Objects (SDO)
Catapult	catapult	Modified to allow system trace trigger and analysis from HTML user interface
checkclocks	checkclocks	Add tracing events for PHC and all netlink qdisc
ethtool	ethtool	Added support for configuring frame preemption and dumping frame preemption statistics
FLANN	flann	Data Parallel C++ enabling of Fast Library for Approximate Nearest Neighbors (FLANN)
IgH EtherCAT Master Stack	ighethercat	Added support for Intel i210/i225 Ethernet controllers, and TGL/EHL integrated Ethernet controllers for Linux kernel 5.10/5.15
Intel® Resource Director Technology (Intel® RDT)	intel-cmt-cat	Added support for 8th Generation Intel® Core™ U-Series processors (WHL) and 9th Generation Intel® Core™ H- and S-Series processors (CFL)
IoTG TSN Reference Software	iotg-txrx-tsn	Modify collection of packet timestamps for use with Linux Events Tracing
Intel® Edge Insights for Industrial	eci-eii	Updated to version 2.6.3
Intel® In-band Manageability	eci-infra-clients-manageability	Updated to version 3.0.13
Iproute2	iproute2	Added the ‘preempt’ parameter to TAPRIO, so the user can select which traffic classes are marked as preemptible and which are marked as express Increased the schedule entry message size Added a new parameter, fpe-qmask, to specify which Tx Queue is mapped to preemptible MAC as described by IEEE 802.1Qbu/IEEE 802.3br Frame Preemption Added support for the SetAndHold and SetAndRelease commands.
libclc	libclc-*	Updated to version 0.2.0 (ECI Bullseye only)
libdrm	libdrm-*	Updated to version 2.4.107 (ECI Bullseye only)
libglvnd	libgl-* libopengl-*	Updated to version 1.4.0 (ECI Bullseye only)
libvirt	libvirt-*	Updated to version 7.6.0 (ECI Bullseye only)
Linux Intel LTS kernel	linux-intel-acrn-sos linux-intel-rt linux-intel-xenomai	igb driver: Tuned the i210 latency for Intel APL platforms igb driver: Fixed issue to free PTP device pin descriptors properly igc driver: Fixed missing SPD pins and PPS when PTM is disabled igc driver: add CONFIG_IGC_TSN_TRACE conditional trace_printk usage XDP driver: added TXTIME field in xdp_desc in header file Fixed issue with loading Intel wireless driver Adjusted trace events to be more granular in regards to parent object Extend XDP_TX trace events format Added the funcgraph-flat option to the function_graph tracer to use the default trace printing format rather than the hierarchical formatting normally used Added xdp_driver_start_xmit and xdp_driver_xmit trace events to collect a timestamp just before starting XDP Tx and right after the Tx is done Modified CAN bus reference clock value from 100MHz to 200MHz on EHL processors Ported mcp251xfd SPI driver to x86 platform Added ability to set set idle frequency of Intel i915 integrated graphics Added support for OpRegion v2.1+ Added OpRegion 2.0 extended VBT support Added IGD stolen memory identical mapping
Mesa 3D Graphics Library	mesa-* lib*-mesa*	Updated to version 21.2.2 (ECI Bullseye only)
Precision Time Protocol (PTP, IEEE1588) implementation for Linux	linuxptp	Updated to version 3.1.1 (ECI Bullseye only)
QEMU	qemu-system-x86	Update to version 6.0 (ECI Bullseye) / 6.2 (ECI Jammy Jellyfish) Added SR-IOV (graphics passthrough) support for Intel 12th generation processors (ADL) Fix Ctrl + Alt + G hotkey in full-screen mode Expose AVX (VEX-encoded) versions of the Vector Neural Network Instructions to guest Allow user to select monitor to show qemu in full screen through new GTK display options
Robot Operating System Software	eci-robotics-ros2	Using latest Foxy distribution Rebuilt ROS2 Deb packages for Debian 11 (Bullseye)
Systemd system and service manager	systemd	Introduce ETF - Earliest TxTime First Queue Discipline (Qdisc) Add netlink properties of Time Aware Priority Shaper Introduce Time Aware Priority Shaper (TAPRIO) Introduce Multi-queue Priority Shaper (MQPRIO) Add tc and l2-fwd offload features Add Protocol= to VLAN netdev Allow configuration of VLAN egress QOS maps Remove ingress egress QOS maps exclusion Add TCA_TAPRIO_ATTR_PREEMPT_TCS bit-mask frame-preemption to TAPRIO, so the user can select which traffic classes are marked as preemptible and which are marked as express Add ethtool rx nfc flow-type filters Add ethtool set frame preemption; ETHTOOL_GFP and ETHTOOL_SFP can be set for enabling/disabling frame preemption per-device
tpm2-abrmd	tpm2-abrmd	Updated to version 2.4.0 (ECI Bullseye only)
tpm2-pkcs11	tpm2-pkcs11	Updated to version 1.6.0 (ECI Bullseye only)
tpm2-tools	tpm2-tools	Updated to version 5.1.1 (ECI Bullseye only)
tpm2-tss	tpm2-tss	Updated to version 3.1.0 (ECI Bullseye only)
Xenomai	xenomai-runtime	Use i210/i211 rtnet driver by default Introduce real-time PTP driver support Introduce PMC Time-Aware GPIO driver for Intel Processors Introduce PSE Time-Aware GPIO driver for Intel Processors Introduce TGPIO smokey test case Add LATMUS application, LATMUS driver, and LATMUS TGPIO functional tests