FastTrack 6.3.3 Release Notes

We are excited to announce the release of FastTrack version 6.3.3, packed with new features, bug fixes, and improvements to enhance your experience.

Added

• Community URL: We have added a community URL to facilitate better engagement and collaboration within the FastTrack community.

Fixes

• Registration Fix: Addressed an issue with the registration process.
• Minimization Fix: Resolved the problem of FastTrack closing when minimized, providing users with consistent behavior.
• Deployment CI Fix: Fixed issues related to deployment in continuous integration environments, ensuring smooth deployment processes.
• CLI for Windows Fix: Addressed a bug affecting the Command Line Interface (CLI) functionality on Windows.

Refactor

• UI QActions Refactor: Improved the UI QActions for better code organization and maintainability.
• Readme and Documentation Update: Updated the readme and documentation to provide comprehensive and up-to-date information on FastTrack features and usage.

We appreciate your ongoing support and feedback. Feel free to reach out to us with any questions or concerns, and happy tracking with FastTrack 6.3.3!

FastTrack 6.3.1 comes with several improvement:

• Image autoscaling at opening.
• Fixed cfg.toml file formatting.

FastTrack 6.23.0 comes with a major improvement:

• Changed display to a QGraphicsView for better zoom and pan handling.

And minors updates:

• Added drag and drop.
• Updated to OpenCV 4.7.0.
• Updated to Qt 6.4.2
• Removed unused OpenMP dependency.

FastTrack 6.2.7 comes with several improvements:

• Added UI translation capability.
• Fixed deprecated API.
• Fixed string translation.
• Fixed qApp calls.
• Refactored UI.
• Refactored CI.
• Refactored tracking class.
• Changed QMap to QHash.
• Removed deprecated StatAnalysis class.

FastTrack version 6.2.6 comes with several changes:

• New version download button.
• Stat_analysis feature preview.
• Update to Qt 6.3.0
• Remove qwebengine requirement.
• Enhanced check for updates.

FastTrack version 6.2.5 comes with a major optimization for Windows:

• Fixed memory leaks on Windows by disabling OpenCL.
• Disabled OpenCL increases performance by ~55% on Windows https://www.fasttrack.sh/blog/2022/03/18/OpenCL.

FastTrack version 6.2.4 comes with optimization improvement

Fixed

• Optimized object's direction computation. Analysis is now ~35% faster https://www.fasttrack.sh/blog/2022/02/28/Benchmark/.

Added

• UI geometry and state saving.

FastTrack version 6.2.3 comes as a hotfix

Fixed

• Fixed crop functionality not working in Interactive tracking.

Added

• Added background status in Interactive tracking.

FastTrack version 6.2.2 comes with many minor fixes and optimizations:

Added

• Enforced FFMPEG backend.
• Added tests for Windows and macOS.
• Added clang clazy and tidy code checks.

Fixed

• Fixed convergence criterion in AutoLevel.
• Fixed VideoReader behavior.
• Fixed several minor memory leaks in the UI.
• Fixed ctor parent argument for QObject.
• Fixed move and assignment move ctor to follow cppcoreguidelines.

Optimized

• Optimized qstring-allocations.
• Optimized Data reading.
• Optimized image display.
• Optimized args-by-ref and args-by-value.

Changed

• Update to Qt6.2.3 LTS.

FastTrack version 6.2.1 comes with several minor fixes and modifications:

• Optimization in the tracking Replay.
• Log file generation to simplify error reporting.

FastTrack version 6.2.0 comes with two major improvements for Windows user:

• FastTrack-Cli is now available natively for Windows.
• 1.5 tot 2X speed increase compared to previous FastTrack releases.

FastTrack version 6.2.0 comes with several minor fixes and modifications:

• Fixed tray behavior.
• Fixed closing behavior.
• Fixed start-up message behavior.
• Fixed stdout for the cli on Windows.
• Changed compiler for Windows now using MinGW_64.
• Added FastTrack command line interface for Windows

FastTrack version 6.1.2 comes with several fixes and modifications:

• Fixed error handling for corrupted movies
• Fixed crash when browsing corrupted movies
• Fixed compilation flags leading to performance improvement
• Fixed AppImage
• Changed error triggering for corrupted movies. Background computation will stop and trigger a fatal error
• Thread-safe background computation
• Update to Qt6.2.2 LTS and OpenCV 4.5.5

Due to some changes in external tool infrastructure, Windows users need to uninstall then reinstall FastTrack or change the remote repository URL to "https://www.fasttrack.sh/download/" to update an existing installation.

FastTrack version 6.1.1 comes with a critical fix:

• Fixed database connection names crossover. Fix the issue #31 and several warnings at closing.

FastTrack version 6.1.0 comes with major modifications:

• FastTrack now uses an SQLite database to store tracking data and parameters for Interactive and Replay functionalities. Batch and Cli tracking still use a config.toml file to input tracking parameters.
• Output data can be retrieved directly from the SQLite tracking.db file.
• Major improvement in RAM consumption.
• Performance improvement on the Replay for a large number of objects.

FastTrack version 6.0.1 comes with several modifications:

• Update Qt and OpenCV for Windows
• Fixed AppImage
• Fixed icon display in the system tray
• Remove analytic

FastTrack version 6.0.0 comes with several modifications:

• Improvements

  • Updated to Qt version 6 to benefit from the latest features.
  • Improved the overall continuous build process, leveraging the power of aqtinstall.
  • Improved Windows continuous build to simplify the packaging.

• Drawbacks

  • Dropped native support to Linux system using glibc <2.28. Qt6 and FastTrack have to be compiled from source for these systems.
  • Changed the public API due to the fusion of QList and QVector. FastTrack >=6.0.0 can't be compiled using Qt <=6.2.0.
  • Compatibility issues with outdated systems.

NOTE

There will be a total compatibility between tracking analysis from version >5.0.0 and >6.0.0.

FastTrack version 6.0.0 comes with several modifications:

• Improvements

  • Updated to Qt version 6 to benefit from the latest features.
  • Improved the overall continuous build process, leveraging the power of aqtinstall.
  • Improved Windows continuous build to simplify the packaging.

• Drawbacks

  • Dropped native support to Linux system using glibc <2.28. Qt6 and FastTrack have to be compiled from source for these systems.
  • Changed the public API due to the fusion of QList and QVector. FastTrack >=6.0.0 can't be compiled using Qt <=6.2.0.
  • Compatibility issues with outdated systems.

NOTE

There will be a total compatibility between tracking analysis from version >5.0.0 and >6.0.0.

• Deployment roadmap

  • Unit testing.
  • Binary production on supported platforms.
  • Stability testing on Windows and Mac platforms.

FastTrack version 5.3.5 comes with several improvements:

• Added system tray integration.
• Added system alerts.
• Fixed outdated urls.

FastTrack version 5.3.4 comes with several improvements:

• TD2 dataset page accessible directly inside the software.
• Fixed theme to enhance readability.
• Linux standardized desktop metainfo and binary files.
• Fixed deprecated AppImage, QWebEngine is now working.
• Updated CI to ubuntu 18.04.