AlazarTech Firmware Updater Change Log

All notable changes to the AlazarTech Firmware Updater Command Line Utility are recorded here

[3.5.3] - 2023-9-1

Fixed

• Issue where package doesn't install under AlazarPackageManager.
• Verification to check is firmware filename is for the right board type.

[3.5.2] - 2023-3-31

Fixed

• Issue where QT6 dependencies are not included in the package.

[3.5.0] - 2022-10-11

• No user-visible change

[3.4.1] - 2021-5-21

Fixed

• Issue where advanced options were not taken into consideration.

[3.4.0] - 2021-2-24

Removed

• Option to reload FPGA after an update completes. This option causes instabilities on some systems.

Fixed

• Issue with firmware updater crashing during update with library >7.3.0 and boards supporting spi flash.

[3.3.0] - 2020-4-27

Added

• Add support for ATS9637, ATS9437 and ATS9618.
• Display the utility's version on the GUI's main window and in the log file
• Prevent firmware update from running if library and driver are too old; this could corrupt the board's firmware

Changed

Fixed

• Issue with the command-line interface where the "Update ... successful" message could appear before the last progress bar update.
• Typos in user dialogs
• Stop including ATSApi.dll with firmware updater

[3.2.4] - 2019-10-3

Fixed

• Bug where ATS9870 update would not work for recent boards.

[3.2.3] - 2019-7-4

Added

• Add support for boards using serial flash interface.

[3.2.2] - 2019-4-19

Added

• Message during the update to warn users not to turn off the machine.

Fixed

• Bug that prevent option bits from being written on ATS9360, ATS9371, ATS9373, ATS9416, ATS9120 and ATS9130. This issue made it so that updates of page 0 would often fail.

Changed

[3.2.1] - 2019-2-21

Changed

• Prevent updating 9373-A3 boards with 9373-D6 firmwares and vice versa

[3.2.0] - 2019-1-18

Changed

• Updated license agreement

Added

• License agreement in manual
• Digitally sign the Windows installation program
• Install manual directly in installation location

[3.1.0] - 2018-10-24

Added

• Support for ATS9130
• Desktop link for GUI
• Disable API logging automatically for this application. This makes it so that it is not necessary to disable API logging manually before starting this program.

Changed

• Documentation update

[3.0.1] - 2018-5-29

Fixed

• Bug that caused ATS9416 firmware flash to fail with "Error: sector read not supported"

[3.0.0] - 2018-2-22

Added

• Support for ATS9120, ATS9371 and ATS9416

[0.3.0] - 2017-7-17

Added

• Ameliorate command-line interface
• Replace API with C version
• Add reload FPGA support

[0.2.1] - 2016-9-23

Added

• Documentation for page options

[0.2.0] - 2016-6-27

Changed

• Renamed `fwupdater` to `fwupdater-cli`

Added

• Install `fwupdater` to standard `bin` directory
• Quiet option that produces no console output
• Conan support

[0.1.3] - 2015-9-1

Added

• Support for ATS9373

[0.1.2] - 2015-8-12

Added

• Support for Linux distributions without standard C++11 compilers

[0.1.0] - 2015-6-15

Added

• Initial Version