NI Platform on Linux Desktop New Features and Changes

Learn about updates—including new features and behavior changes—introduced in each version of the NI Platform on Linux Desktop.

NI Platform on Linux Desktop 2024 Q1 New features and Changes

  • LabVIEW now supports openSUSE 15.5

NI Platform on Linux Desktop 2023 Q4 New features and Changes

  • Repositories for openSUSE 15.5
  • Repositories will no longer be updated for openSUSE 15.3

NI Platform on Linux Desktop 2023 Q3 New features and Changes

  • Hardware Configuration Utility support for RF composite devices

NI Platform on Linux Desktop 2023 Q2 New features and Changes

  • Hardware Configuration Utility now allows configuring switch blocks, creating simulated devices on all Linux distributions
  • Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 20.04, RHEL 9, RHEL 8, openSUSE 15.4, and openSUSE 15.3 now supports PXIe-7903, PCIe-8383, NI I/O Trace, and NI System Configuration

NI Platform on Linux Desktop 2023 Q1 New features and Changes

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 support for NI-DMM, NI-FGEN, FlexRIO, NI-SCOPE, NI-SWITCH, and NI-Sync
  • openSUSE 15.3 and openSUSE 15.4 support for NI-DMM, NI-FGEN, FlexRIO, NI-SCOPE, and NI-SWITCH
  • Ubuntu 22.04 support for NI-DCPower, NI-DMM, NI-FGEN, FlexRIO, NI-SCOPE, and NI-SWITCH
  • LabVIEW Host Interface API for FlexRIO, Rseries, cRIO, and RIO

NI Platform on Linux Desktop 2022 Q4 New features and Changes

  • Repositories for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9, Ubuntu LTS 22.04, openSUSE 15.3, and openSUSE 15.4
  • Repositories will no longer be updated for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, Ubuntu LTS 18.04, openSUSE 15.1, and openSUSE 15.2
  • Hardware Configuration Utility support for NI-RFSA and NI-RFSG non-composite devices
  • NI-SWITCH Ubuntu LabVIEW API package added to Ubuntu 20.04 repository

NI Platform on Linux Desktop 2022 Q3 New features and Changes

  • NI-RFSA and NI-RFSG adds support for Ubuntu 18.04 and Ubuntu 20.04
  • NI-DMM and NI-SCOPE adds LabVIEW support for Ubuntu
  • NI-FGEN adds support for Hardware Configuration Utility
  • Ubuntu repositories add support for the same products as the RedHat Enterprise Linux and OpenSUSE repositories
  • LabVIEW adds support for the following distributions.
    • openSUSE Leap 15.3
    • openSUSE Leap 15.4
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
    • Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

NI Platform on Linux Desktop 2022 Q2 New features and Changes

  • NI-FGEN support
  • NI Automotive Ethernet support
  • PXI-6683H support for NI-Sync
    • GPS, IRIG-B, PPS, IEEE-1588, IEEE 802.1as synchronization
  • PXIe-419x support for NI-DCPower
  • TS-15xxxx support for NI-DAQmx
  • LabVIEW Ubuntu API support for NI-Sync and NI-DAQmx