ACAP version 12.5 – June 19, 2025

Overview

The release contains:

• ACAP Native SDK 12.5.0
• ACAP Runtime 2.0.1 (Release notes)
• Docker ACAP 3.0.2 (Release notes)
• Docker Compose ACAP 3.0.2 (Release notes)

Code examples:

• Code examples ACAP Native SDK 12.5.0 (Release notes)
• Code examples ACAP Computer Vision Solution 12.5.0 (Release notes)

Device software:

• Minimum AXIS OS version: 12.5

New additions

• API:
  • New PipeWire API introduced in the ACAP Native SDK, see audio examples below for guidance on how to use it.
• ACAP application examples:
  • New audio playback example demonstrating how to use PipeWire for audio playback in ACAP applications.
  • New audio capture example demonstrating how to use PipeWire for audio capture in ACAP applications.
  • The bounding-box example now supports the coordinate system selection API, demonstrating how to switch between scene-normalized and frame-normalized coordinates.
• ACAP documentation
  • The ACAP documentation is now versioned on major ACAP releases.
  • A table of supported operations for the ARTPEC-9 DLPU has been added to the Computer Vision documentation.

Changes

• ACAP application examples:
  • The web-server example has been updated to use CivetWeb instead of the Monkey web server due to maintenance concerns.

Bug fixes

• ACAP application examples:
  • Fixed fontconfig cache warnings in the axoverlay example by adding proper cache handling.

APIs supported in this release

Axis API	Chip
Axoverlay API	ARTPEC-9, ARTPEC-8, ARTPEC-7, ARTPEC-6
Bounding Box API	ARTPEC-9, ARTPEC-8, ARTPEC-7, CV25
Edge storage API	ARTPEC-9, ARTPEC-8, ARTPEC-7, ARTPEC-6, CV25, i.MX 6SoloX
Event API	ARTPEC-9, ARTPEC-8, ARTPEC-7, ARTPEC-6, CV25, i.MX 6SoloX
License Key API	ARTPEC-9, ARTPEC-8, ARTPEC-7, ARTPEC-6, CV25, i.MX 6SoloX
Machine learning API	ARTPEC-9, ARTPEC-8, ARTPEC-7, CV25
Message broker API	ARTPEC-9, ARTPEC-8, ARTPEC-7, CV25
Parameter API	ARTPEC-9, ARTPEC-8, ARTPEC-7, ARTPEC-6, CV25, i.MX 6SoloX
Serial port API	ARTPEC-9, ARTPEC-8, ARTPEC-7
Video capture API	ARTPEC-9, ARTPEC-8, ARTPEC-7, ARTPEC-6, CV25

Open source API	Chip
Cairo	ARTPEC-9, ARTPEC-8, ARTPEC-7, ARTPEC-6
Curl	ARTPEC-9, ARTPEC-8, ARTPEC-7, ARTPEC-6, CV25, i.MX 6SoloX
FastCGI	ARTPEC-9, ARTPEC-8, ARTPEC-7, CV25, i.MX 6SoloX
Jansson	ARTPEC-9, ARTPEC-8, ARTPEC-7, ARTPEC-6, CV25, i.MX 6SoloX
OpenCL	ARTPEC-9, ARTPEC-8, ARTPEC-7
OpenSSL	ARTPEC-9, ARTPEC-8, ARTPEC-7, ARTPEC-6, CV25, i.MX 6SoloX
Pipewire	ARTPEC-9, ARTPEC-8, ARTPEC-7, ARTPEC-6, CV25, i.MX 6SoloX

Special API	Chip
VAPIX APIs	ARTPEC-9, ARTPEC-8, ARTPEC-7, ARTPEC-6, CV25, i.MX 6SoloX