What's new

Highlights

• D401 GMSL dual-RGB raw color (BETA feature under Perception Studio) — multiple raw formats, including SBGGR10P (pBAA / RAW10).
• Aligned depth streams — support for aligned depth, with matchers handling multiple depth streams.
• Composite-option API — generic API for multi-parameter controls (MinZ, Temporal Filter DPP, Decimation Filter DPP, improved close range control).
• AI Assistant — chat panel in the RealSense Viewer and in the web-based viewer.
• Usage statistics (RUM) — stats engine with privacy controls; cloud upload controlled by rs2_rum_set_cloud_enabled.
• GPU and acceleration — AMD ROCm / HIP support, zero-copy CUDA align, GPU-visible capture buffers (V4L2 / RSUSB), ARM64 NEON NV12-to-RGB8 conversion.
• New presets and options — Edge Enhancement visual preset for D435/D435i, thermal compensation on D457, RS2_OPTION_EMITTER_MODE over DDS, D500 BA10 calibration profiles with RAW16 preview.

C++ Viewer

• AI Assistant chat panel.
• Depth color-map ruler adapts to the visible range; ruler fixed for DDS devices.
• Control search now covers all control groups; rendering refactored.

Web based Viewer (react-viewer)

• AI Assistant chat widget.
• One-click firmware update.
• Control parity with the C++ viewer: enum dropdowns, depth visualization, RS400 advanced controls.
• Control search box with aliases.
• Collapsible stream modules; motion enabled by default.
• Fix Windows Tauri desktop-app build.
• REST API: event-driven WebRTC frame delivery, session-leak fix, firmware router restructure, Python 3.10 through 3.14 support.

Platform & Build

• AMD ROCm / HIP support.
• macOS: RealSense Viewer enabled; USB capture hardened; external libusb CMake configuration fixed.
• Fix CUDA arch flags silently dropped on CMake < 3.18.
• Compressed db3 recordings are natively playable on ROS 2.
• Security: fix critical and high vulnerabilities

Bug Fixes

• Fix global timestamp step and reversal at the hardware clock wrap.
• D401 GMSL: fix Depth + Color1 crash on packed RAW10 color; fix rs-capture crash with dual raw color streams.
• Report device removal promptly and hold back a device that is still enumerating.
• Fix recorder crash on frames whose stride is smaller than their format requires.
• Fix out-of-bounds read of HID samples in the RSUSB backend.
• Fix use-after-free crash on exit; stop device watcher before callback teardown.
• Fix high CPU usage when a USB device disconnects during streaming.
• Stop FW error polling when the device is disconnected, not only destroyed.
• rs-fw-update: bound child processes with a timeout, fix reconnect deadlock, return recovery result.
• fw-logger rejects unsupported devices.

Various bugs fixes - see full release notes in Release Notes.

Supported Platforms

• Ubuntu 26.04/24.04/22.04/20.04 LTS ⁽¹⁾. Kernel versions: 6.[2, 5, 8, 11, 14], 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.[0,1,2], 7(.0)
• Mac OS (High Sierra 10.13.2 & 12+)⁽⁴⁾
• Android⁽⁴⁾ 14, 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.realsenseai.com/docs/firmware-updates for table of versions

Supported Languages

• C++14 (GCC 7 / Visual Studio 2017)
• C
• Python 3.14 / 3.13 / 3.12 / 3.11 / 3.10 (learn more)
• ROS (learn more)
• LabVIEW (learn more)
• .NET (learn more)
• Matlab (learn more)
• OpenNI2 (learn more)
• Unreal Engine 4 (learn more)
• Rest API (learn more)

Important Links

• RealSense website
• Linux / Jetson installation
• MIPI driver releases

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