Edge Insights for Vision

Documentation

  • 2021.4.2
  • 01/25/2022
  • Public Content
Contents

Release Notes

New in this Release

  • Added support for
    Intel® Distribution of OpenVINO™ toolkit
     version 2021.4.2 LTS for the following components for Ubuntu*, CentOS*,
    Red Hat* Enterprise Linux* (RHEL*)
     and Windows* OS:
    • Intel® Distribution of OpenVINO™ toolkit
       2021.4.2 Runtime
    • Intel® Distribution of OpenVINO™ toolkit
       2021.4.2 in a Container
    • Deep Learning (DL) Streamer Pipelines
    • Reference Implementations - Single and Multi-Object Detection with Hardware Acceleration and Multi-Camera Detection of Social Distancing
  • Added new component Deep Learning (DL) Streamer preview support for Windows and the following components are moved to custom download option for Windows OS:
    • Rancher k3s*
       lightweight Kubernetes
    • Intel® Distribution of OpenVINO™ toolkit
       2021.4.2 in a Container
    • AWS* IoT Greengrass Core
       in a container
    • EdgeX* Foundry
       (Ireland)
  • Added Windows* OS support through UI installer for the following components:
    • Intel® Distribution of OpenVINO™ toolkit
       2021.4 Runtime
    • Intel® Distribution of OpenVINO™ toolkit
       2021.4 in a Container
    • Rancher k3s*
       lightweight Kubernetes*
    • EdgeX* Foundry (Ireland)
    • Reference Implementations - Single and Multi-Object Detection with Hardware Acceleration and Multi-Camera Detection of Social Distancing
  • Added support for
    ONNX*
     Runtime version 1.8.1 for
    Intel® Distribution of OpenVINO™ toolkit
     2021.4 LTS.
  • Added support for
    Intel® Distribution of OpenVINO™ toolkit
     version 2021.4 LTS for the following components for Ubuntu*, CentOS*, and
    Red Hat* Enterprise Linux* (RHEL*)
    :
    • Intel® Distribution of OpenVINO™ toolkit
       2021.4 Runtime
    • Intel® Distribution of OpenVINO™ toolkit
       2021.4 in a Container
    • Deep Learning (DL) Streamer Pipelines
    • Reference Implementations - Single and Multi-Object Detection with Hardware Acceleration and Multi-Camera Detection of Social Distancing
  • Updated EdgeX* Foundry component to support Ireland version for Ubuntu, CentOS and
    RHEL*
  • Updated K3s* (Lightweight Kubernetes*) to support version 1.21.2 for Ubuntu, CentOS and
    RHEL*

Known Issues

  • The installation is halted due to dpkg locks / error 1.
    Workaround: Reboot the target machine or force stop the process holding the dpkg lock.
  • On Ubuntu* 20.04 LTS target machine
    hddldaemon
     initialization fails inside the container
    OpenVINO™
     image openvino/ubuntu20_runtime:2021.4 while running the sample demos on HDDL accelerator.
  • On CentOS* target machine, if
    hddldaemon
     failed to start the service, perform the steps below:
    • Reboot the target machine.
    • Execute the following commands: 
      source /opt/intel/openvino/bin/setupvars.sh 
cd $HDDL_INSTALL_DIR 
./install_IVAD_VPU_dependencies.sh 
cd ./bin 
./hddldaemon
  • Installation of
    OpenVINO™
     runtime component might fail in VM environment.
  • Windows OS - Installation may fail if the same target system is used to run the installer by logging in with different users.
  • Windows OS -
    OpenVINO™
     Python* demos/samples are not working. These fail with Python version 3.8.3. This will be fixed in a future release.
  • Windows OS - If Docker desktop opens in the foreground while installation through edgesoftware, then please minimize the Docker desktop.
  • Windows OS - Installation of Docker CE dependent components (Docker Compose, EdgeX, and
    OpenVINO™
    ) in a container may fail while switching between open network and proxy enabled networks.

Product and Performance Information

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Performance varies by use, configuration and other factors. Learn more at www.Intel.com/PerformanceIndex.