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Release Notes

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ECI 3.1 brings feature parity across Debian* and Canonical Ubuntu* by updating the Robotic Operating System (ROS2) packages from ROS Foxy to ROS Humble and enabling Xenomai on Canonical Ubuntu*. This has enabled ECI to provide ROS and Xenomai packages for both Debian* and Canonical Ubuntu*. In addition, ECI 3.1 updates the Linux kernel, adding support for Intel 13th Gen silicon. Refer to the lists below for more information.

The following new components were added:

Component

Deb Package

Modification

Ceres Solver

libceres*

Backport v2.1.0 to Bullseye

Intel Graphics Compiler

intel-graphics-compiler, libigc*, libigdfcl*

Backport the GNU/Debian* official v1.0.13822 to Bullseye and Jammy

Intel graphics compute runtime for OpenCL

intel-compute-runtime, intel-opencl-icd

Backport the GNU/Debian* official v23.13.26032.7 to Bullseye and Jammy

Profiling Tools Interfaces for GPU (PTI for GPU)

intel-pti-gpu*

Introduce Deb packages for simplified developer experience

Intel Vector Compute Intrinsics

intel-vc-intrinsics-dev

Backport the GNU/Debian* official v0.11.0 to Bullseye and Jammy

Eigen 3 library

eigen3, libeighen3-*

Backport v3.4.0 to Bullseye

FLANN library

libflann*

Using optimized oneAPI for GPU-acceleration

Point Cloud Library

libpcl*, pcl-tools, pcl-oneapi-test

Using optimized oneAPI for GPU-acceleration

Intel RealSense Kernel Module

librealsense2-dkms

Introduce Deb packages for Linux Intel LTS 5.10 and 5.15 simplified developer experience

Intel IPU6 Kernel Module

intel-ipu6-dkms

Introduce Canonical Ubuntu* package based of IOTG custom Intel IPU6 for simplified developer experience

Python3 Ament Build System

python3-ament-package

Backport v0.14.0 to Bullseye

Changes to non open-source components:

Component

Deb Package

Modification

Caterpillar benchmark

caterpillar

Updated Makefile to install Docker* assets

CODESYS ST-Fragment

codesys-st-fragments

Fixed BenchmarkConfigFile install path

Intel® Edge Insights for Industrial

eci-eii

Updated to version 4.1.0

PLCopen Motion Control

plcopen-motion-*

Adds new function blocks from RTmotion into OpenPLC library

TSN End-Station Services

tsn-endstation-*

Updated to include PCI IDs for ADL-N and RPL integrated Ethernet controllers

Rhealstone benchmark

rhealstone

Updated scripts to fix paths to cylictest and Xenomai latency test

Real-time Data Agent

rt-data-agent

Updated package to add missing python3-paho-mqtt dependency

FIDO Device Onboarding (FDO)

N/A

Updated to version 1.1.6

Edge Orchestration

N/A

Updated to version 3.1.0

Changes to open-source components:

Component

Deb Package

Modification

ACRN Hypervisor

eci-acrn

Updated to version 3.2
Fixed graphics passthrough issues on RKL and JSL silicon
Support Xeon Ice Lake-D and Raptor Lake silicon

Linux Firmware Non-free (Debian* downstream)

firmware-linux-nonfree

Updated to version 20230210

Linux Firmware (Canonical Ubuntu* downstream)

linux-firmware

Add iotg custom intel-ipu6 firmware onto jammy-updates 20220329.git681281e4-0ubuntu3.18 and above.

IgH EtherCAT Master Stack kernel modules

ighethercat-dkms

Restrict DKMS build to kernel versions 5.10 and 5.15

Robot Operating System Software

ros-humble-*

Migrated to ROS2 Humble Hawksbill rosdistro version 2023-05-02 onward
Custom ROS2 ECI packages now supported on Canonical Ubuntu* 22.04 (Jammy Jellyfish)

Intel® Resource Director Technology (Intel® RDT)

intel-cmt-cat

Updated packages to version v4.6.0

Linux Intel 2020 and 2021 LTS kernel

linux-intel-acrn-sos
linux-intel-rt
linux-intel-xenomai
  • Updated linux-intel-acrn-sos to version 5.10.179 (Debian*) / 5.15.113 (Canonical Ubuntu*)

  • Updated linux-intel-rt to version 5.10.179-rt87 (Debian*) / 5.15.113-rt64 (Canonical Ubuntu*)

  • Updated linux-intel-xenomai to version 5.10.179 (Debian*) / 5.15.113 (Canonical Ubuntu*)

  • Enable Intel Source Lake (SLK) BSP and Linux dovetail 5.15 LTS

Xenomai

xenomai-runtime

Updated to version: 3.2.3 (Jammy Jellyfish), 3.2.2 (Bullseye)
Xenomai now supported on Canonical Ubuntu* 22.04 (Jammy Jellyfish)

Real-Time Systems Hypervisor

rth-hypervisor
rth-virt-dkms
rth-pos-rt
rth-pos-xe

Updated to version v5.6.00.29784

Intel® In-band Manageability

eci-infra-clients-manageability

Updated to version 4.1.3

Systemd system and service manager

systemd

  • Synchronize to latest version supplied by distribution

  • Updated to the Linux upstream TSN Ethernet Frame-Preemption UAPI

Intel Ethernet controllers Frame-Preemption enabling (FPE)

ethtool

Updated to the Linux upstream TSN Ethernet Frame-Preemption UAPI

Linux Traffic-Class QoS

iproute2

Updated to the Linux upstream TSN Ethernet Frame-Preemption UAPI