Release numbering

The Elphel software is released in several forms:

1. - Live DVD including firmware released at the time LiveDVD was created and software to update the camera firmware to the later release using downloaded firmware image.
2. - Source tarball on SourceForge
3. - Binary images + installation scripts
4. - Source code in CVS.

The software releases on SourceForge (source tarballs, binary images) have 3 dot-separated release numbers, like elphel353-7.1.5.tar.gz for the source code or image353-2.10-7.1.5.tar.gz for binary images to be copied to the camera flash memory

The most recent (and definitely "unstable") software is available on CVS at Sourceforge. The software available only from the CVS has 4 dot-separated numbers, the thirst three matching the last version released as a tarball distribution on SourceForge.

elphel353-8.0

First stable 8.0 release to be installed in all Elphel cameras shipped after today with a temporary exception of applications that require 10359 board (10359 support is not finished yet).

elphel353-8.0.RC4

Added RSS feed for Elphel CVS at Sourceforge - you can use news reader to track development progress.

Mostly bug fixes in

1. camvc - less unneeded requests to the camera, faster response, works with Konqueror, not just FF
2. autoexposure/white balance - added error integrating/threshold to white balance

elphel353-8.0.RC3

1. Multiple bug fixes
2. "camera" tab in the camvc works now, including autoexposure/white balance (only some parameters are controlled here, others - through parsedit.php
3. cirbuf/exif navigation functionality is also supported
4. ccamftp.php need minor change in camvc - enable/disable using parameter bit DAEMON_EN_CCAMFTP (not ENABLE= in config file as now)
5. known issue - 3MPix sensor does not work yet

elphel353-8.0.RC2

elphel353-8.0.RC1 - released at Sourceforge

Finally - a working release based on redesigned camera drivers (Doxygen output)

elphel353-7.2.0.pre1 (open, pre-alpha)

This is not a release, just a collection of files (drivers do not yet match FPGA and FPGA code is probably not yet operational). The new CVS tree (elphel353-7.2) is started, but please do not use it yet.

elphel353-7.1.8

• tests for sensor and 10369 board --Spectr 20:06, 18 September 2008 (CDT)
• added command for streamer control: sctl.cgi?rtsp_port=NN to select streamer RTSP port --Spectr 20:06, 18 September 2008 (CDT)

elphel353-7.1.7.31

• Increased precision of the DCT in FPGA JPEG compressor--Andrey.filippov 12:50, 24 August 2008 (CDT)
• Added quantizer control (zero bin size and shift)--Andrey.filippov 12:50, 24 August 2008 (CDT)
• Added write capability to /dev/ccam_img to make it possible to upload test images to the camera fro compressor evaluation--Andrey.filippov 12:50, 24 August 2008 (CDT)

elphel353-7.1.7.30

• Fixed 3MPix senosor bug
• Increased SDRAM phase (some cameras with the same FPGA revision could fail)

elphel353-7.1.7.29

• fixed ipsetd
• more enabled ALSA USB drivers
• added Dropbear implementation of SSH

elphel353-7.1.7.28

• update of ALSA drivers (i.e. USB sound boards drivers - alsa-drivers 1.0.16 stable; for now sound is disabled in kernelconfig-2.6)
• camogm2 to record video with audio from connected USB soundcard

elphel353-7.1.7.27

• added 3 more scripts for 10359 board to main tree (+mem_read.php, +phases_adjust.php, +reg_write.php, -switch_to_ch2.php).--Oleg 03:19, 23 June 2008 (CDT)

elphel353-7.1.7.26 - released at Sourceforge

• started camvc2.html that does not use ccam.cgi and is compatible with imgsrv, camogm. Not yet operational --Andrey.filippov 18:44, 22 April 2008 (CDT)
• added 10359 fpga project files and scripts for test, rev 03590002. Firmware verification notes. --Oleg 21:27, 22 April 2008 (CDT)
• i2c controller in FPGA (write only) to reduce CPU load, that allows to queue register writes to the sensor up to 7 frames ahead--Andrey.filippov 02:34, 29 April 2008 (CDT)
• "smart" interrupt that combines "frame sync" and "compressor done" making sure it happens after the start of frame.--Andrey.filippov 02:34, 29 April 2008 (CDT)
• FPGA DDR SDRAM controller bug fix, increased tolerance to phase errors.--Andrey.filippov 02:34, 29 April 2008 (CDT)
• "gamma" table writes are delayed to start of frame (two pages, switch at first sync after the write to the last location of the table)--Andrey.filippov 11:28, 30 April 2008 (CDT)
• optional switch of the timestamp from start of the first non-black line readout (and of first line exposure) to start of trigger pulse (async mode only) to remove timestamp jitter caused by variable exposure--Andrey.filippov 11:28, 30 April 2008 (CDT)

elphel353-7.1.7.25 - released at Sourceforge

• multipart JPEG support in Imgsrv, bug fixes, driver cleanup, ccam.php updates --Andrey.filippov 16:02, 16 April 2008 (CDT)

elphel353-7.1.7.24

• Fixed MTD problem - flash read errors when DMA is active, added flash speed detection --Andrey.filippov 18:01, 11 April 2008 (CDT)
• FPGA rev. 0353301a - reduced drive strength on a system bus, lower EMI --Andrey.filippov 18:01, 11 April 2008 (CDT)

elphel353-7.1.7.23

• Exif driver, geotagging --Andrey.filippov 04:10, 7 April 2008 (CDT)

elphel353-7.1.7.22

• added compass and gps support (USB drivers) --Andrey.filippov 15:44, 27 March 2008 (CDT)

elphel353-7.1.7.21

• FPGA rev 03533019 - fixing camsync bugs --Andrey.filippov 02:36, 25 March 2008 (CDT)

elphel353-7.1.7.20

• --Andrey.filippov 17:34, 20 March 2008 (CDT)

elphel353-7.1.7.19

• New target while installing/building images added. User can select NFS server or local directory for save builded images. All queries are interactive--Landy 11:41, 21 March 2008 (GMT)
• MDI/MDIX mode manual configuration by configuration file /etc/conf.d/net.eth0 "MDI_MODE=" string: "MDI_NODE=mdi" for normal, "MDI_MODE=mdix" for cross, or any other (ot w/o this string) - for auto, by default--Spectr 08:43, 21 March 2008 (CDT)
• critical bugfix in hist353.c driver - fixed incorrect memory allocation--Spectr 08:43, 21 March 2008 (CDT)

elphel353-7.1.7.18

• Support of EEPROM R/W on add-on boards, new PHP wrapper for Axis bootblocktool

elphel353-7.1.7.17

• Added libxml2 library and SimpleXML support in PHP--Andrey.filippov 20:23, 13 March 2008 (CDT)

elphel353-7.1.7.16

• modified functions script for generating new target in Makefile --Landy 12:30, 4 February 2008 (CST)
• add new target in Makefile - "make nfs", copying builded images from local directory to NFS server --Landy 12:30, 4 February 2008 (CST)
• add new script "nfs_copy" - used in Makefile with target "make nfs". It have interactive menu for helping user check NFS servers and shared(exported) directories --Landy 12:30, 4 February 2008 (CST)

elphel353-7.1.7.15

elphel353-7.1.7.14 - released at Sourceforge

• fixed global build sequence in the main Makefile - make target "elphel_addon" before "files"--Spectr 07:40, 12 February 2008 (CST)

elphel353-7.1.7.13

• bugfixes in the streamer auto start--Spectr 07:43, 12 February 2008 (CST)
• send MJPEG by streamer with quantization tables in RTP--Spectr 07:43, 12 February 2008 (CST)
• removed double of FPS in the streamer control--Spectr 07:43, 12 February 2008 (CST)

elphel353-7.1.7.12

• restored streamer autostart--Spectr 07:44, 12 February 2008 (CST)
• fixed streamer control CGI - added wait for streamer run--Spectr 07:44, 12 February 2008 (CST)

elphel353-7.1.7.11 - released at Sourceforge

• Increased maximal FPGA clock frequency (tested at 165MHz), fixed problems with focusing visualization. This release in configured to run at 160MHz (FPGA main clock) , please modify fpga startup script if you need to reduce that clock rate--Andrey.filippov 02:46, 1 February 2008 (CST)

Known bug: missing dependency, need to run 'make clean' in apps/php-5.2.1/ext/elphel before building the software (file c313a.h had changed)

elphel353-7.1.7.10 - released at Sourceforge

elphel353-7.1.7.9 - released at Sourceforge

• Added Focusing Helper AJAX application and additional PHP extension function elphel_wait_frame(), improved FPGA timing.--Andrey.filippov 00:57, 27 January 2008 (CST)

elphel353-7.1.7.8 - released at Sourceforge

• Experimental implementation of the focus quality calculation and visualization--Andrey.filippov 03:04, 25 January 2008 (CST)

elphel353-7.1.7.7

• Made FPGA simulation work with surrent Xilinx unisims library and Icarus Verilog (custom patches to the library that has to be downloaded from the Xilinx Web site as a part of the Xilinx WebPack (tested with 9.204i, 9.103i)--Andrey.filippov 22:13, 20 January 2008 (CST)

elphel353-7.1.7.6

• in reflashing turn off IRQ and DMA at nfs_update script--Spectr January 18, 2008, 6:53 am (CST)

elphel353-7.1.7.5 - released at Sourceforge

• fixed old (since porting to 353 from the 333) histogram calculation bug in the FPGA - of the 4 histogram window parameters (used, among others, by auto-exposure) only the bottom margin (top+height) was used, other 3 margins were equal to zero. Current FPGA version (can be tested by the "fpcf -r 13" command) is 0x3533013. To revert to the previous 0x3533012 you will need to replace both /etc/x353.bit and /etc/init.d/fpga files, taken from the older release (i.e. 7.1.7)--Andrey.filippov 02:42, 16 January 2008 (CST)
• fixed too long (used second line) "Streamer Status" message in camvc as well as (sometimes) long response while waiting for streamer status.--Andrey.filippov 02:42, 16 January 2008 (CST)

elphel353-7.1.7.4

• added timelapse mode to camogm ---Andrey.filippov 23:07, 14 January 2008 (CST)

elphel353-7.1.7.3

• Added librt.so.1 for support pdo_sqlite on Camera --Landy 12:30, 13 Jan 2008 (CST)
• fixed header files in autoexposure files (previous version did not build) --Landy 12:30, 13 Jan 2008 (CST)

elphel353-7.1.7.2

• added elphel_autoexposure_get() function to elphel php extension --Andrey.filippov 23:53, 11 January 2008 (CST)

elphel353-7.1.7.1

• Connected auto-exposure to PHP extension --Andrey.filippov 01:50, 11 January 2008 (CST)

elphel353-7.1.7

• New installation script functionality - it is possible now to strip ported applications from their CVS files/directories that are not compatible with the Elphel software that uses same files to maintain camera-specific changes applied to the original distributions--Andrey.filippov 00:15, 10 January 2008 (CST)
• Added PHP extension for white balancing of the camera images--Andrey.filippov 00:15, 10 January 2008 (CST)
• Fixed calculation of the minimal frame period compressor can handle (it was 762 - like in "7.62mm" instead of 768=256*3)--Andrey.filippov 00:15, 10 January 2008 (CST)

elphel353-7.1.6.6

• enabled sqlite 2.x extension on PHP --Landy 8:59, 7 Jan 2008 (CST)
• added extension on PHP to sqlite 3.x --Landy 8:59, 7 Jan 2008 (CST)

elphel353-7.1.6.5

• added sqlite3 to camera --Landy 0:15, 28 December 2007 (CST)

elphel353-7.1.6.4

• fixed mmap/cache bug I was blaming Axis for--Andrey.filippov 01:40, 13 December 2007 (CST)
• fixed old bug related to sensor reset, several other minor ones in the driver.--Andrey.filippov 01:40, 13 December 2007 (CST)
• reflash.php now unmounts /mnt/.store used to save some parameters during reflash--Andrey.filippov 18:38, 14 December 2007 (CST)
• check IP of NFS server, and use by default 192.168.0.15 if fail--Spectr 03:15, 26 December 2007 (CST)

elphel353-7.1.6.3

• added NET_FOLDER to use this folder and IP of request source--Spectr 17:28, 11 December 2007 (CST)
• removed scripts for "old" reflashing method with the button (flashit etc.)--Spectr 15:04, 10 December 2007 (CST)
• alpha-version of the patch to fix Ethernet-bag in the Axis driver: http://mhonarc.axis.se/dev-etrax/msg09202.html

elphel353-7.1.6.2

• Fixed some problems with data transfer between kernel and user space (for PHP extension) over mmap (cache coherency)--Andrey.filippov 14:45, 6 December 2007 (CST)
• Collected most of the PHP scripts to /packages/web/353/phph_top directory--Andrey.filippov 14:45, 6 December 2007 (CST)
• Added camera_demo.php - script that programs and starts camera without use of ccam.cgi--Andrey.filippov 14:45, 6 December 2007 (CST)
• Changed ports that servers are listening to. Now lighttpd (that uses PHP in FastCGI mode) responds to both port 81 and 80 (default), legacy Boa is moved to port 82--Andrey.filippov 14:45, 6 December 2007 (CST)

elphel353-7.1.6

• added RTSP support in DVR--Spectr 19:19, 3 December 2007 (CST)
• added mii-diag - tools to configure and monitor transceiver managment registers for network interface--Spectr 15:13, 5 December 2007 (CST)

elphel353-7.1.5.6

• Moved php-fcgi to usr/local/bin, fixed support of additional modules, added "Hello world" extension and support scripts to create ones.--Andrey.filippov 22:41, 28 November 2007 (CST)
• added /usr/local/lib patch in the tools/build/scripts/mkprod|uclibc_wrapper files--Spectr 16:30, 28 November 2007 (CST)
• changed default resolution to maximum (really, to 4000x4000)--Spectr 13:30, 30 November 2007 (CST)
• added "wide" resolutions: 1920x1080 and 1280x720--Spectr 13:30, 30 November 2007 (CST)

elphel353-7.1.5.5

• added camogm program to record video/images on internal HDD and other storage media--Andrey.filippov 10:05, 19 November 2007 (CST)
• changed the bash interpreter mode to "--posix" in './configure' script--Spectr 14:42, 19 November 2007 (CST)
• added in the 'pt_split' script generation of the 'list' file to firmware images directory, to check archive--Spectr 19:08, 19 November 2007 (CST)
• added "a=x-dimensions:width,height" field in SDP description in streamers--Spectr 14:23, 21 November 2007 (CST)

elphel353-7.1.5.4

• Installed libogg and added a new application - camogm to record video/images on the camera hard drive and other media.--Andrey.filippov 10:05, 19 November 2007 (CST)
• Added commands to Circbuf (and Imgsrv) to view current circbuf usage--Andrey.filippov 10:05, 19 November 2007 (CST)
• astreamer: use timestamps from the circbuf
• restore work of firmware with reflashing from LiveDVD

elphel353-7.1.5.3

1. fix FPS parameter in streamer - changes in drivers in streamer interface

elphel353-7.1.5.1

1. added reflash.php script that allows initiating camera firmware update from the NFS server.
2. bug fix in the streamer (multicast addresses)
3. fixed build problems for the systems where 'dash' is used as shell (i.e. Ubuntu and derivatives) - the shell scripts/Makefiles used to build Elphel software now specify '#!/bin/bash' instead of just '#!/bin/sh', so you do not need to change links in your Ubuntu system.

elphel353-7.1.5

1. Bug fixes, including Known_bugs that lead to the 1x1 pixel ("no image available") images being returned instead of the real ones.
2. Initial Support for Elphel Model 354-11 camera and precise synchronization ("locking") of multiple Model 353 cameras making them useful for the stereo imaging

elphel353-7.1.3

Changed power control in 363 cameras, reduced peak power to 12.5W so cameras work with standard PoE switches (15.4W)

elphel353-7.1.2

Release dedicated to support model 363 cameras as described in http://wiki.elphel.com/index.php?title=Programming_363 on Elpphel wiki. several minor bug fixes in other code.

It also starts a new repository in the CVS - http://elphel.cvs.sourceforge.net/elphel/elphel353-7.1/

New features:

• camera synchronization over the dedicated cabling
• alternating shutter sequences
• additional driver interface to be called from PHP scripts
• new straightforward interface (small PHP scripts) to control camera acquisition modes and triggering - triggering modes and triggering itself.