NVIDIA JetPack Documentation
Release Notes - v6.0DP - Last updated December 12, 2023

1. JetPack 6.0 Developer Preview

1.1. New Features

NVIDIA JetPack 6.0 Developer Preview is the first release of JetPack 6. It includes Jetson Linux 36.2 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 3.0 and others

Note that JetPack 6.0 is a developer preview release and not intended for production. It is ready for starting your development on Jetson Orin with JetPack 6 software stack. This release does not include any security features or OTA features. The production quality release of JetPack 6 is targeted for March 2024 and will include security and OTA features along with production quality stack. Please carefully read the release notes of JetPack 6.0 Developer Preview for known issues and other details.

2. Additional Release Details

2.1. OS

L4T 36.2

Refer to Jetson Linux release notes of L4T 36.2 for details.

Highlights:

  • Supports all Jetson Orin modules and Developer Kits.
  • LTS Kernel 5.15.

  • Ubuntu 22.04-based root file system.
  • Flexibility to bring any upstream Linux Kernel.

  • Expanded choices of Linux based distros. Refer to Linux Distros section below.

  • Multimedia:

    • Gstreamer encoder plugin now supports Copy-timestamp.

    • Support of YUV444 in Gstreamer nvvidconv plugin.

    • Background color and blending support in Gstreamer nvcompositor plugin.
    • Support of NV12 in Gstreamer nvjpegenc plugin.

    • Support of NV12, GRAY8, YUY2, Y42B, Y444, RGBA in Gstreamer nvjpegdec plugin.

2.2. Libraries and APIs

CUDA 12.2.12

TensorRT 8.6.2

cuDNN 8.9.4

VPI 3.0

  • Refer to the release notes for VPI 3.0 for detailed release notes.

2.3. Developer Tools

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