Release Notes

EII v2.6.3

EII v2.6.3 is a bugfix release on top of EII v2.6.2 release.

Fixes

• Fixed build failure and rfc_classifier UDF crash issues for kapacitor service

• ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana) integration with EII is discontinued

• General security fixes has been applied

• Minor README updates

EII v2.6.2

EII v2.6.2 is a bugfix release on top of EII v2.6.1 release.

Note

We recommend EII users (customers) using EII ELK feature to upgrade to this version.

Fixes

• [SECURITY] Updated the docker image version of ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana) stack to use the recommended ones as per https://www.elastic.co/blog/new-elasticsearch-and-logstash-releases-upgrade-apache-log4j2 where log4j package has been updated to latest version

• Minor README updates

EII v2.6.1

EII v2.6.1 is a bugfix release on top of EII v2.6 release

Bug fixes

• Fixed ZMQ ZAP issue

• Fixed “REQUEST_BUSY” issues seen with OpenVINO python and C++ inference engine bindings in EII udfs by protecting the critical section (Using OpenVINO data runtime image 2021.4.1)

• Fixed OpcuaExport service issue in ansible deployment

• Fixed golang installation in baremetal

• Fixed and added more documentation around DNS issue

• Prefix DOCKER_REGISTRY to provisioning images

• Fixed helm environment failure for OpcuaExport service

• Further added improvements to READMEs

• Fixed Visualizer not displaying text added in JupyterNotebook issue

• Enabled support for third party OPCUA GUI clients to connect to OpcuaExport service

EII v2.6

Features

• Ansible playbooks for EII installation, provisioning and cluster set up (single & multi nodes)

  • Enable setup of single/multi-nodes deployment

  • Multi-nodes deployment can be done with single command

• Helm charts for K8s deployment

  • Deploy containers to Kubernetes cluster using Helm charts

• Support for Jupyter Notebooks for developing UDFs (User Defined Functions)

  • UDF development in python can be done using Jupyter Notebook

• Enabling Realsense Cameras

  • VI support ingestion from Realsense camera

  • Generate point cloud data

• Prebuilt containers distribution

• EII video pipeline multi-Stream synchronous processing support

• Ubuntu 20.04 Host OS and docker base image support.

• C API layer support for EII Config Mgr.

• Timeseries Message Bus connections

  • EII Messagebus Output plugin for Telegraf

  • EII Messagebus Input and output nodes for Kapacitor

Known Issues

1. Encoding cannot be enabled with native PCL udf

2. NativePCLIngestion CustomUDF throws warnings while processing rs2 depth frames

EII v2.5.3

EII v2.5.3 is a bugfix release on top of EII v2.5.2 release.

Note

We recommend EII users (customers) using EII ELK feature to upgrade to this version.

Fixes

• [SECURITY] Updated the docker image version of ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana) stack to use the recommended ones as per https://www.elastic.co/blog/new-elasticsearch-and-logstash-releases-upgrade-apache-log4j2 where log4j package has been updated to latest version

• EtcdUI service intermittent build issue is been fixed

EII v2.5.2

EII v2.5.2 is a bugfix release on top of EII v2.5.1 release

Bug fixes

• Fixed ZMQ ZAP issue

• Fixed “REQUEST_BUSY” issues seen with OpenVINO python and C++ inference engine bindings in EII udfs by protecting the critical section (Using OpenVINO data runtime image 2021.4.1)

• Fixed issue around cmake existence check in eii_libs_installer.sh script

• Fixed InfluxDBConnector and RestDataExport issues in k8s environment

EII v2.5.1

EII v2.5.1 is a bugfix release on top of EII v2.5 release

Bug fix

• Fixed the issue around updating the ~/.docker/config.json behind proxy network in pre_requisite.sh script (Only https://github.com/open-edge-insights/eii-core repo has been changed in this release)

EII v2.5

Features

• Added eis-messagebus-go repo for EII-EdgeX integration

• Added pre-requisite installer script (to install docker-ce, docker-compose etc.,) and EII uninstaller script

• UX/DX Improvements

  • Enable Volume mount for UDFs

  • eis_builder to auto-create multi-instance boilerplate configurations

  • Small Analytics size

  • Pylon viewer export settings

  • Option to Disable Bounding box in Both Visualizer

• Benchmarking Code Release in EII

  • Release Video Ingest Benchmarking

  • Release Time series Ingest Benchmarking

• Kubernetes orchestrator enablement

  • Single node deployment

  • Multi-node deployment

• Revamp Configuration APIs for EII

  • Revamp Config Manager API

  • Implement C ETCD Config library

• Time series improvements

  • Enable Multiple Telegraf instances

  • Enable multiple UDF support with Kapacitor.

  • Enable Random Forest Algo

  • Implement EISMessageBus (ZMQ) plugin for Telegraf.

• Video use case improvements

  • Support more popular GigE camera in VI

  • Add snapshot feature for SW trigger (feed in just one frame)

• EII Message Bus Improvements

  • Enable XPUB-XSUB messaging pattern of EII Message Bus.

  • Dynamic loading of protocol plugins