Intel® RealSense™ SDK 2.0 beta (v2.56.3)

[Nir-Az]

This is a Beta release with source code only, no Debian or PyPi collaterals were published.

What's new

• Feature - Introducing a new depth & IR post processing (90/180/270 deg) frame rotation filter [GitHub Vertical camera - rotate depth frames? #6023, RSDSO-19843]
• Platform - ARM NEON CPU acceleration support included in the SDK (align, pointcloud) [PR Add ARM NEON intrinsics to pointcloud #13396 , Add ARM NEON intrinsics to align #13389]
• Platform - Updated minimal Jetson version support to v5.0.2
• Wrapper - Updated minimal Python version support to v3.9 (Python 3.8 is EOL, can be built from source) [LRS-1154]
• Use Case - Water safety alert system using RealSense camera reference (in collaboration with the Technion™)

Bug Fixes

• Refresh D457 device information after DFU [LRS-686]
• Added support for D457 recovery mode [RSDSO-19297]
• Optimize USB enumeration time [RSDSO-19750]
• Broken metadata timestamp in D457 GMSL mode [RSDSO-19754]
• D405 UV errors and intrinsic misalignment [RSDSO-17488, RSDSO-18999]

Security

• Switched on security for compilation and linkage flags by default [PR Use Intel Standard Compiler flags #13378, LRS-1183]
• Windows Installer - Fix insecure folder permissions allows privilege escalation [PSIRT #PTK0005062]
• Windows Installer - Fix Time-Of-Check Time-Of-Use in Windows installer [PSIRT# PTK0004998]

See full changes in Release Notes.

Supported Platforms

• Ubuntu 24.04/22.04/20.04 LTS ⁽¹⁾. Kernel versions: 6.[2, 5, 8], 5.[0, 3, 4, 8, 13, 15, 19].
• Windows 11⁽³⁾ and Windows 10 (Build 15063 or later, 17763+ recommended).
• NVIDIA® Jetson™ Jetpack 5(.0.2), 6(.0)
• Mac OS (High Sierra 10.13.2)⁽⁴⁾
• Android⁽⁴⁾ 13, 12, 11, 10⁽⁵⁾, 9, 8, 7. ⁽⁶⁾

⁽¹⁾ Please refer to the Release Notes for known issues
⁽²⁾ Non-LTS Ubuntu kernels with manual patches, check build from source instructions
⁽³⁾ There is 50% probability of up to 80% frame drops with Windows 11 builds 22621.3296 and 22631.3296 (KB5035853). Windows 10 RS5 or Win 11 KB5030219 (OS Build 22621.2283) do not have any frame drops
⁽⁴⁾ This is compilable, but not validated
⁽⁵⁾ Due to a known issue with Android 10 the Depth cameras may not be recognized by some ROM/Platform vendors.
⁽⁶⁾ IMU stream is not working well on latest versions

Supported Cameras

Please refer to https://dev.intelrealsense.com/docs/firmware-updates for table of versions

SKU	Firmware	SDK	Comments
D400	5.16.0.1 or later	v2.56.3 or later	Firmware releases D400
L515	1.5.8.1 or later	v2.50.0 validated v2.54.2 supports but not validated	Firmware releases L500

Supported Languages

• C++14 (GCC 7 / Visual Studio 2017)
• C
• Python 3.12 / 3.11 / 3.10 / 3.9 (learn more)
• ROS (learn more)
• LabVIEW (learn more)
• .NET (learn more)
• Unity (learn more)
• Matlab (learn more)
• OpenNI2 (learn more)
• Unreal Engine 4 (learn more)

Important Links

• Intel RealSense website
• Linux / Jetson installation
• Quick-Start

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This discussion was created from the release Intel® RealSense™ SDK 2.0 beta (v2.56.3).

[bbferka]

Hi, v2.56.x has been in beta since August 2024. Is there a tentative for when it gets a final release?

[Nir-Az]

Hi @bbferka
Currently we aim for EO Q1 / Start of Q2..
Stay tuned..