JetPack 6.0 Release Notes

New Features

NVIDIA JetPack 6.0 is the first production release of JetPack 6. The previous JetPack 6 release was a developer preview only. This JetPack 6.0 production release includes Jetson Linux 36.3 which packs Linux Kernel 5.15 and Ubuntu 22.04 based root file system. JetPack 6 supports all NVIDIA Jetson Orin modules and developer kits. Our upstreaming effort of Jetson changes to upstream Linux kernel has now enabled novel features like flexibility to run any upstream Linux Kernel (greater than Kernel 5.14) and expanded choices of Linux distro options on Jetson. In addition to including an updated Kernel and Ubuntu, JetPack 6 also brings in the latest NVIDIA AI compute stack with CUDA 12.2, Tensorrt 8.6, cuDNN 8.9, VPI 3.1 and others.

Additional Release Details

OS

L4T 36.3

Refer to Jetson Linux release notes of L4T 36.3 for details.

Highlights:

• Production ready software stack.

• Preview of upgradable compute stack to upgrade CUDA, TensorRT, CUDNN, DLA and VP without upgrading Jetson Linux. Refer to JetPack documentation for running compute stack from this production release on JetPack 6 Developer Preview.

• Pre-built Kernel debian package with PREMPT_RT enabled.

• Support for upgrading Jetson Orin Nano Developer Kit from JetPack 5 to JetPack 6 without needing a host machine.

• Over-The-Air (OTA) Update.

  • Support for Over-The-Air (OTA) tool to upgrade NVIDIA Jetson Orin based devices from JetPack 5.

• Security

  • Enabled support for security features, bringing parity with JetPack 5.

• Power And Performance

  • Enabled support for power features, bringing parity with JetPack 5.

  • Power Estimator supported for JetPack 6.

• Display

  • Support for Framebuffer console.

  • Support for suspend/resume in Display Core Engine (DCE).

• Multimedia

  • Support for H264 Constrained_Baseline and Constrained_High profiles.

  • Dynamic Bitrate Rate, Dynamic FrameRate support for AV1 encoder.

  • Dynamic Resolution Change[DRC] support for H264, H265 and AV1 encoder.

  • UYVY BT.709 and BT.2020 colorimetry support for video transform.

• Support for upgrading Jetson Orin Nano Developer Kit from JetPack 5 to JetPack 6 without needing a host machine.

Libraries and APIs

CUDA 12.2.12

TensorRT 8.6.2

• Refer to release notes for TensorRT 8.6.2 for details.

cuDNN 8.9.4

• Refer to the release notes for cuDNN 8.9.4 for detailed release notes.

VPI 3.1

• Refer to the release notes for VPI 3.1 for detailed release notes.

Developer Tools

• NVIDIA Nsight Systems 2024.2.2 for application profiling across GPU and CPU.

  Check the release notes for the Nsight Systems 2024.2.2 release.

• NVIDIA Nsight Graphics 2024.1 for graphics application debugging and profiling.

  Check the release notes for the Nsight Graphics 2024.1 release.