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 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*

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.

(See: https://github.com/openvinotoolkit/openvino/issues/7555)

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.