Changelog | Windows Barcode Scanner

Version 7.0.0 (20 Mar 2025)

• 🎉 New:
  • Support for .NET 8 and WinUI 3. Existing components have been ported to work with the new framework.
  • New experimental component called CameraPreview for .NET 8 UI frameworks, which provides basic camera support for WinForms, WPF and WinUI 3.
  • More supported barcode types:
    • Maxi Code
    • USPS Intelligent Mail
    • Royal Mail
    • Japan Post
    • Royal TNT Post
    • Australia Post
    • Databar Limited
    • Micro PDF 417
    • GS1 Composite
    • RMQR Code
    • Code 11
    • Code 32
    • Pharma Code
    • Pharma Code Two Track
    • PZN 7
    • PZN 8
  • Support for parsing structured barcode document formats. Access to the parsed data is available through BarcodeItem.ExtractedDocument).
    • AAMVA
    • Boarding Pass
    • DE Medical Plan
    • Medical Certificate
    • ID Card PDF 417
    • SEPA
    • SwissQR
    • VCard
    • GS1
    • HIBC
• 🚀 Improvements:
  • BarcodeScannerConfiguration supports more advanced configuration settings per barcode format. However, setting barcode formats by enum is still supported.
• ⚠️ Breaking changes:
  • Namespaces have been updated to be aligned with our other .NET technologies. Instead of "Scanbot", the primary namespace is "ScanbotSDK".
    • Most classes are split between "ScanbotSDK.Common" and "ScanbotSDK.Barcode".
  • Various classes and enums have been renamed. Some notable examples include:
    • Barcode to BarcodeItem
    • BarcodeType to BarcodeFormat
    • BarcodeResult to BarcodeScannerResult
  • Moved and renamed BarcodeScanner.Start to BarcodeScannerPage.ShowOnFrameAsync.
  • Renamed RSS14 to Databar and RSSExpanded to DatabarExpanded.
  • Removed CameraResolutionOptions and the associated Resolution property from the BarcodeScannerConfiguration class.
  • .NET Native and UWP support is deprecated. Support will be removed in a future release.
• 🚙 Under the hood:
  • Camera preview logic greatly overhauled: removing the use of CaptureElement and making the capture logic UI-framework agnostic.
  • Upgraded nlohmann::json to 3.11.3.
  • Upgraded xsimd to 13.0.
  • Upgraded xtl to 0.7.7.
  • Upgraded xtensor to 0.25.
  • Upgraded yaml-cpp to 0.8.

Version 3.7.0 (18 Jul 2023)

• 🎉 New:
  • More supported barcode types:
    • Industrial 2 of 5
    • IATA 2 of 5
    • Code 25
    • Micro QR Code
  • New Barcode/AR overlay component named Scanbot.Controls.SelectionOverlayControl which draws polygons for each barcode over the camera preview.
• 🚀 Improvements:
  • Improvements to the finder control:
    • New properties, such as HoleShape, HoleStrokeThickness and HoleCornerRadius, to control the look, size and/or shape of the finder cutout.
    • Additional properties, HoleStrokeColor and OverlayColor, to control the colors used.
  • Improved camera support, especially with Windows tablets using Intel AVStream cameras.
  • Barcode results now include a crop of the barcode image as well as AR overlay coordinates (for the barcode overlay component).
  • Additional configuration properties added to control the camera.
• ⚠️ Breaking changes:
  • Renamed Scanbot.Controls.ViewFinder to Scanbot.Controls.FinderControl.
  • Dispose method of Scanbot.Controls.BarcodeScannerComponent is no longer async.
  • Scanbot.Model.ViewFinderConfiguration type removed.
    • Additional properties added to Scanbot.Controls.FinderControl which supercede previous configuration settings.
  • Renamed Scanbot.Model.Error to Scanbot.Model.ScanbotSdkException.
    • The Code property on ScanbotSdkException is represented by ScanbotSdkErrorCode instead of by an int.
  • Removed OriginalImage from Scanbot.Model.BarcodeResult as each Scanbot.Model.Barcode has it's own Image now.
  • Updates to Scanbot.Model.BarcodeScannerConfiguration:
    • Removal of redundant properties:
      • Finder (of type Scanbot.Model.ViewFinderConfiguration).
      • CaptureOriginal
    • Removed several properties and consolidated tham into the Camera property of type Scanbot.Model.CameraOptions:
      • Mirrored
      • FocusMode
      • CameraDirection (renamed to Direction)
• 🚙 Under the hood:
  • Internal use of Windows.Media.Capture.Frames.MediaFrameReader for more precise control of frame capture from cameras and capture devices.
  • Added third-party libraries (icu4c 73.1, and magic-enum v0.8.1)
  • Updated the following third-party libraries:
    • JSON for Modern C++ library to 3.11.2
    • Tensorflow to 2.10.0
    • xsimd to 7.4.9-18-g3d17850
    • xtensor to 0.23.34-35-gbe35a267
    • xtl to 0.7.2

Version 1.0.0 (19 Oct 2022)

• 🥳 First release

Version 1.0.0-pre.1 (6 Oct 2022)

• First release candidate

Version 1.0.0-beta1 (20 Sep 2022)

• First public beta

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