Release 0.3.36

0.3.36 Beta Release 35

Added

• Add is_mono property to detect monochrome sensors.

Changed

• Tests/examples fixed for monochrome sensors.

Release 0.3.35

0.3.35 Beta Release 34

Added

Changed

• IMX500 progress bar can be made to work for non-sudo users.
• Formatting check has been changed over to Ruff.
• Other minor fixes (see commit history).

Release 0.3.34

0.3.34 Beta Release 33

Added

Changed

• Performance improvements when writing DNG files.
• Fix IMX500 examples for numpy 2.4.1.
• Remove some unnecessary IMX500 related warnings.
• PyavOutput won't output frames until it's seen a keyframe.
• PyavOutput objects can be attached to an encoder after it's been started.
• Hailo device architecture can be tested easily at runtime.
• av module (PyAV) is only imported when necessary.
• Some general improvements to many of the examples.

Release 0.3.33

0.3.33 Beta Release 32

Added

Changed

• Fix cache flushing problem that was causing GPU to read incorrect values.

Release 0.3.32

0.3.32 Beta Release 31

Added

• force_key_frame() added to Encoder class, so applications can force a key frame in the encoded bitstream.
• New RemoteRequest class enables sending CompletedRequest objects to child processes.
• IMX500 input tensor injection now supported. Example added.

Changed

• Base Encoder class fixed to make it accept raw and other stream types.
• Legacy tflite_runtime import in examples replaces by the new ai_edge_litert.

Beta Release 30

0.3.31 Beta Release 30

Added

• Support for writing uncompressed images using PyavOutput (for example, for v4l2 loopback).
• Support for writing HLS and other formats directly using PyavOutput.

Changed

• Fix saving low resolution stream image in JPEG format.
• Fix incorrect reference counting for Hailo devices.
• Fix video resolution in mp4 file avc1 box.

Release 0.3.30

0.3.30 Beta Release 29

Added

• Test for v4l2 encoder import.
• Make the deprecated logging properties work for classes and instances.
• Don't override LIBCAMERA_RPI_CONFIG_FILE env variable if present.

Changed

• Fixups when using the new videodev2 packages.
• Fix aegc test to reduce the change of false positives.

v0.3.29

What's Changed

• picamera2: Switch from using v4l2-python3 to videodev2 by @naushir in #1282
• Startup requests must be released back to the camera system by @davidplowman in #1284

Full Changelog: v0.3.28...v0.3.29

Release 0.3.28

0.3.28 Beta Release 27

Added

• Support for encrypted rpks for AI cam.
• Handling for "startup frames" (once committed to libcamera).

Changed

• Some audio/video bugs fixed, also relating to CircularOutput2.
• Sensor name is now saved as the "Model" in DNG files (requires latest PiDNG).

Release 0.3.27

Fix bug setting exposure time and analogue gain when starting the camera.