JetPack 6.2.1 Release Notes

New Features

NVIDIA® Jetson™ Linux 36.4.4 is a minor improvement over Jetson Linux 36.4.3 with the following highlights:

• Added support for using a Hardware Security Module (HSM) to sign boot images.

• Resolved minor bugs, which improved the success rate of flashing with SDK Manager.

• Addressed compatibility issues between JetPack 6.2 and the latest Docker release (v28.0.x).

NVIDIA® Jetson™ Linux 36.4.4 supports all NVIDIA Jetson Orin modules and developer kits and introduces novel features, such as the flexibility to run any upstream Linux Kernel greater than 5.14, and expanded choices of Linux distro options on Jetson.

Additional Release Details

OS

L4T 36.4.4

For details, refer to Jetson Linux release notes of L4T 36.4.4.

Highlights:

• Compute stack with CUDA 12.6, TensorRT 10.3, cuDNN 9.3, VPI 3.2, DLA 3.1, and DLFW 24.0.

• Camera

  • Enhanced the Argus library, reducing CPU utilization by up to 40%.

• Security

  • Support for firmware-based Trusted Platform Modules (fTPM) on the Orin platform. For a full list of security features, refer to Security in the Jetson Linux Developer Guide.

  • Added support for using Hardware Security Modules (HSM) to sign boot images.

• Multimedia

  • Added GStreamer nvunixfdsink and nvunixfdsrc IPC plugins for cross-process use cases.

• Fixes for known security vulnerabilities.

Libraries and APIs

• CUDA 12.6.10

  • For details, see the release notes for CUDA 12.6.

• TensorRT 10.3.0

  • For details, see the release notes for TensorRT 10.3.0.

• cuDNN 9.3.0

  • For details, see the release notes for cuDNN 9.3.0.

• VPI 3.2

  • For details, see the release notes for VPI 3.2.

Developer Tools

• NVIDIA Nsight Systems 2024.5 for application profiling across GPU and CPU.

  • See the release notes for the Nsight Systems 2024.5 release.

• NVIDIA Nsight Graphics 2024.2 for graphics application debugging and profiling.

  • See the release notes for the Nsight Graphics 2024.2 release.