List of changes in each version

v1.7.2

v1.7.1

Increased stability of the FirmwareUpdater
Add digital signature to dotnet assemblies
Fixed a SIGABRT in QueryStringFromCInterfaceFunctionWithBufferSize when the second call returned with an error code

Add new callbacks DeviceDisconnected, DeviceReconnected and DeviceListChanged to the DeviceManager and Interface class
Add DeviceReconnectInformation for the new DeviceReconnected callback
Add new IOException
Fix a problem in the DeviceManager when Interface::UpdateDevices or Interface::UpdateInterfaces is called directly

Fix a segfault when calling DeviceManager::Update() without initializing the library first
Change DeviceDescriptor to directly use a buffer for string queries and fall back to query the buffer size on failure

Fix possible crashes and deadlock when calling DeviceManager::Devices() from within callbacks
Breaking changes
- Fix DeviceManager::Devices() returning old device list when queried within callbacks

Changed the dotnet bindings to use .NET Standard 2.0.
- See https://learn.microsoft.com/de-de/dotnet/standard/net-standard?tabs=net-standard-2-0#select-net-standard-version
- Note the changed .NET Version requirement:
  - .NET Framework 4.6.1 and later
  - .NET Core 2.0 and later (including .NET 5 and later)
Changed the python bindings to release the GIL for long-running functions

Add a signed .NET binding library for strong-named assemblies support
Fix possible data race in two stage queries
Breaking changes
- The DeviceManager is created on the first call to Library::Initialize and destroyed on the last call to Library::Close. Calling DeviceManager::Instance and using references or pointers to this instance outside of these two calls will result in undefined behavior or a program crash

Fix AnnounceBuffer() and AllocAndAnnounceBuffer() allocating memory, which isn't freed again when calling RevokeBuffer()
Fix RevokeBuffer() not invalidating the buffer handle

New cmake packages for both windows and linux, which now take care of adding their respective include directories
Samples have been simplified using these new packages
Add new cmake function ids_peak_deploy to take care of copying dependent files(i.e. DLL's) into your targets output directory
Add corresponding function ids_peak_dotnet_deploy when using dotnet
Add new cmake function ids_peak_generate_starter_script to take care of generating a .sh script to start your application on linux
Add new python module ids_peak_ipl_extension
- Add BufferTo() function for python, called BufferToImage
Add specific functions for NodeMap::FindNode(), Node::FindInvalidatedNode(), Node::FindInvalidatingNode(), Node::FindSelectedNode() and Node::FindSelectingNode() in .NET binding, for IDE's that don't support generic methods in C#
Fix buffer chunks and parts not getting freed
Fix nullptr checks in the interface

Fix issue where third party transport layers could cause an error when updating the device list

Add support for the Sony IMX415 sensor by removing invalid sensor lines
- BufferTo()
Fix NodeMap::UpdateEventNodes() and NodeMap::HasEventSupportedData() functions in python and .NET bindings
Breaking changes
- Remove support for third party transport layers and devices

Fix segfault when accessing certain nodes like height and width with peak python bindings on Raspberry Pi 4
Fix incompatibility between compilers using python bindings on Debian 10 armhf (e.g. Raspberry Pi 4)
Fix crash when throwing exceptions, caused by GenTL returning an empty error message
Fix issues regarding peak_dynamic_loader.h
Breaking changes
- Calls to Library::Initialize() and Library::Close() are reference counted now, so you have to call Library::Close() as many times as you called Library::Initialize().
Fix breaking change: Add backwards compatibility for stdcall symbols

Add option for dynamic loading of shared library
Add fixed ordinal numbers in Windows DLL, for future ABI compatibility
Breaking changes
- Change calling convention of the C interface functions from stdcall to cdecl.

Add Python binding
Add support for GenICam remote device events
- NodeMap::UpdateEventNodes()
- NodeMap::HasEventSupportedData()
Add a method for accessing the raw event data
- Event::RawData()
Add methods for checking whether the node map contains a node with a given name (and type)
- NodeMap::HasNode() to check whether a node with a given name exists
- NodeMap::HasNode<T>() to check whether a node with a given name and type exists
Add a method for checking whether a node is a feature, i.e. it can be reached via category nodes from a category node named "Root"
- Node::IsFeature()
Add a method for locking the NodeMap in multithreaded usage
- NodeMap::Lock()
Accept remote devices which report an URL string which does not strictly comply with the GenTL standard in respect to letter case
Improve stability and error safety
Improve Doxygen documentation
Breaking changes
- Move the .NET binding libraries to the newly introduced installation folder for bindings
- Make Version::Subminor() return the correct value
- Make EnvironmentInspector::CollectCTIPaths() not list the same cti files multiple times when the environment variable points to redundant file locations
- Make EnumerationNode::SetCurrentEntry() (all overloads) throw InvalidArgumentException instead of NotFoundException when called with an invalid argument

Add .NET binding
Add methods for storing/loading camera parameters, i.e. NodeMaps, to/from file
- NodeMap::StoreToFile()
- NodeMap::LoadFromFile()
Add methods for updating chunk nodes in NodeMap
- NodeMap::HasBufferSupportedChunks()
- NodeMap::UpdateChunkNodes()
Breaking changes
- Move peak::core::INFINITE_NUMBER to DataStream::INFINITE_NUMBER
- Move peak::core::INFINITE_TIMEOUT to Timeout::INFINITE_TIMEOUT
- ModuleDescriptor::OpenedModule throws BadAccessException instead of returning nullptr
- Rename former patch component of version number to subminor Version::Subminor
- Remove separator argument from Version::ToString
- Rework the C interface in respect to consistency