V11.6.3

JavaScript Web SDK 11.6.3 Release Notes

• Optimized canvas usage by removing float values and reducing number of strokes where possible (MOBILE-1569)
• Fixed an error that occurred when returning images captured by phones that use languages with non-latin characters (MOBILE-1570)

V11.6.2

JavaScript Web SDK 11.6.2 Release Notes

• Reduced the camera resolution on iOS devices to improve performance and stability. Some reduction of DPI from iOS live capture may be expected, further improvements are under investigation. (MOBILE-1563)
• Re-enabled live capture on iOS devices. (MOBILE-1563)

V11.6.1

JavaScript Web SDK 11.6.1 Release Notes

• This release is a temporary patch. A more robust solution is under investigation. This patch enables iOS 15 devices to go to manual capture instead of freezing. iOS will also skip digital signing and moire checks to reduce use of resources. (MOBILE-1560)

V11.6.0

JavaScript Web SDK 11.6.0 Release Notes

This is a major release and is not fully backward compatible. Please review the migration details in the Readme.

• Added digital signing of evaluated images to address tampering or man-in-the-middle attacks (MOBILE-1122)
• Improved camera to reduce fish-eye effect (primarily on Samsung devices) (MOBILE-1322)
• Updated crop and metrics to latest version (MOBILE-1489)
• Added guided face capture module with real-time face detection (where supported) (MOBILE-1500)
• Fixed a bug that could cause document detection to stop working if the camera was sent to background and then resumed (MOBILE-1513)
• Resolved an issue that prevented some event listeners from correctly unsubscribing (MOBILE-1516)
• Fixed a bug that could cause iOS Chrome to show guidance text in the wrong orientation (MOBILE-1526)

V11.5.1

• Resolved several cases in which the SDK became unresponsive when partnered with React on iPhone devices. (MOBILE-1423)
• Reduced WASM file size to approximately 5.5 times smaller (MOBILE-1442)
• Increased the performance speed of Detect on most devices to 20%-50% faster (MOBILE-1442)
• Improved crop and metrics performance on most devices to 50%-200% faster (MOBILE-1442)
• Addressed discrepancies in glare and sharpness values between releases 11.4.6 and 11.5.0 (MOBILE-1448)
• Reduced occurrences of false positive detections of camera unresponsiveness/sequence breaks (MOBILE-1462)

V11.5.0

This is a major release and is not fully backward compatible. Please review the migration details in the Readme.

• Resolved an issue that caused brackets on some resolutions to appear misaligned. (MOBILE-1309)
• Enhanced the JavaScript Web SDK to support modularity and nonstandard workflows. (MOBILE-1396)
• Resolved an issue that caused brackets to appear off screen. (MOBILE-1419)
• Added support for screen readers. (MOBILE-1421)
• Made the following changes in the camera module:
• Decoupled the camera renderer from the UI.
• Improved the performance of the camera renderer.
• Changed the camera renderer to go to a video element instead of canvas.
• Fixed multiple memory leaks in crop, detect, and metrics.
• Improved the stability of the camera on iOS 15. (For more information, see Known Issues in the Readme.)
• Added the ability to detect iOS 15 issues that would cause Live Capture to become unresponsive, and to address the issues by closing Live Capture, reporting the error to the implementor, and allowing the user to continue through Manual Capture.
• Improved error reporting from the camera to give more specific reporting/guidance to users. (MOBILE-1433)
• Enabled Manual Capture fallback after Live Capture fails. Note: Users should configure this behavior in their implementations as instructed in the Readme. (MOBILE-1455)

V11.4.7

• This release is a temporary patch. A more robust solution is under investigation. This patch enables iOS 15 devices to go to manual capture instead of freezing (MOBILE-1439)

V11.4.6

• Increased the default JPEG image quality (from 0.92 to 1.0) (MOBILE-1363)
• Added the ability to configure the JPEG quality (Acuant strongly recommends using the default setting) (MOBILE-1367)

V11.4.5

• Added support for hosting with CDNs (see README for more information) (MOBILE-1341)
• Added support for bearer tokens as an alternative to credential initialization (MOBILE-1081)

V11.4.4

• Resolved an issue that caused low sharpness, particularly on the iPhone 12 Pro Max (MOBILE-1232)
• Updated cropping and metrics to the latest version (MOBILE-1248)
• Resolved an issue that could cause stretching in landscape mode in iOS 14.4 (MOBILE-1250)