Vimba GigE TL Release Notes
Version: 1.9.2
Components and Version Reference
| Component | Version | 
|---|---|
| GigE Transport Layer (VimbaGigETL.cti) | 1.9.2 | 
| Vimba GigE Filter Driver | 2.5.9* | 
Hardware Requirements
- PC or laptop with 1 GHz x86 processor or better. 
- ARMv8-compatible 64-bit embedded system, for example, Jetson Xavier. 
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 1.9.2
GigETL
- Fixed: Vimba X freezes if the NIC is disabled during image acquisition. 
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