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The Photonscore software suite ships as a single, versioned bundle. Every release contains compatible builds of all components — pair the version number, not the individual files.

Component Purpose
LINCam Capture Desktop application — controls a LINCam detector, records .photons files
LINTag Capture Desktop application — controls a LINTag time tagger, records .photons files, computes temporal histograms
LINPix Control / PhotonPix Control Desktop application — controls one or more LINPix / PhotonPix detectors. PhotonPix Control is the branding used when the unit is sold through Photonis.
Photonscore Python package Library for end-user scripting: correlation, histogramming, reading and writing .photons / D7 files, remote control of all devices
Photonscore .NET library Same scope as the Python package, in .NET. Planned — not yet released.
Golden images Firmware images for LINCam and LINTag, applied through Capture. LINPix / PhotonPix firmware is not user-updatable.

Supported platforms: Windows x64, macOS Apple Silicon. Python package versions: 3.11, 3.12, 3.13, 3.14.

If you need a build that is not listed, please contact email@photonscore.de.

Artefacts are published to https://dl.photonscore.io/. Direct links in the table at the bottom of this page are kept in sync with master by our continuous-integration pipeline.

Pre-release builds for any active branch are available at https://dl.photonscore.io/py/branches/<branch>/<commit>/ — useful when a fix is needed before the next versioned release.

Versioning policy

The suite follows Semantic Versioning:

Bump When
MAJOR Breaking change in a user-facing API, file format, communications protocol, or hardware-generation drop
MINOR New feature, new product, new public API surface
PATCH Bug fixes only

2.8.1 — 14 May 2026

Release-pipeline maturation. No functional changes to LINTag / LINCam / LINPix Python API, MATLAB bindings, or desktop applications.

  • Downloads now follow a uniform versioned layout at dl.photonscore.io/{py,matlab,apps}/<version>/<os_arch>/. Per-platform direct links are in the table at the bottom of this page.
  • Desktop applications (LINTag Capture, LINCam Capture, LINPix Control) are now built, signed and notarised by CI on every master push — see the table for direct links.
  • MATLAB bindings ship as photonscore-matlab-<version>-<os_arch>.zip alongside the Python wheels.
  • Linux x86_64 Python wheels and MATLAB bindings are published alongside macOS / Windows, in case in-house automation needs them.

2.8.0 — 14 May 2026

LINCam remote-control API and a new technical-documentation site.

  • LINCam Capture now exposes a gRPC remote-control service that matches the existing LINTag pattern.
  • Photonscore Python — new photonscore.LINCam.LINCamRemote module for scripted control of LINCam Capture: photocathode, TDC slopes, time gate, file recording, and retrieval of the 2-D image and delta-t histograms.
  • LINTag — adds the option of an external 50 MHz reference clock.
  • Documentation — this static site is now built on every commit to master and replaces the previous PDF-only manuals.

2.7.0 — 16 March 2026

Online analysis tools in LINTag Capture.

  • LINTag Capture — new online FWHM analysis view, configurable rolling-buffer size and slice duration, live histogrammer statistics.
  • 2-D plots — interactive cursors and region-of-interest selection.
  • Performance improvements to the correlator core.

2.6.0 — 12 February 2026

Online correlator service, clock-source switching, LINCam merge utility.

  • LINTag Capture — runtime switching between internal, 10 MHz and 50 MHz external clock sources; online correlator service integrated into the application; live PCIe-throughput and FPGA temperature reporting.
  • LINCam Merge Utility — new tool for combining multiple LINCam recordings into a single .photons file with correctly aligned timestamps; substantially faster sync renderer for long recordings.

2.5.2 — 22 October 2025

Patch. Stability fix in the .NET D7Reader.

2.5.1 — 20 October 2025

Patch. Correctness fix in the LINTag correlator.

2.5.0 — 1 September 2025

LINCam reliability fixes and correlator improvements.

  • LINCam Capture — fix for the no-CFD operating mode; improved recovery on overexposure and overheat events; the +12 V supply now remains on independently of the high-voltage stage.
  • LINTag — additional iteration of the time-tagger firmware, additional correlator stop-offset control.
  • Photonscore Python — upgraded to Python 3.12.7 in the reference toolchain.

2.4.0 — 13 May 2025

PhotonPix identity, FLIM acceleration, documentation rework.

  • LINPix / PhotonPix — new control module; PhotonPix identity now read out at start-up.
  • Photonscore Python — Photonscore.FLIM.Native accelerator delivers a 3 – 5× speed-up of the pixel sorter; new helpers for Gaussian and exponential decay generation.
  • Documentation — refreshed site with proper code colouring for Python, JSON and MATLAB, MathML rendering for equations, responsive layout for mobile devices.

2.3.0 — 6 March 2025

PhotonPix UI, LINCam merge utility, improved LINTag timing.

  • PhotonPix Control — first release of the dedicated control application.
  • LINCam Sync — utility for merging multiple LINCam files with correctly aligned offsets.
  • LINTag — timing improvements bring the FWHM down to ≈ 12 ps; rise/fall counting; runtime time-gating.

2.2.0 — 6 December 2024

Improved timing stability and a new data-acquisition stack.

  • LINTag — TDC redesign eliminates coarse-counter discontinuities; the external 10 MHz reference is enforced by default; per-serial-number profiles for finer factory calibration.
  • Photonscore .NET — new asynchronous data-acquisition core underpinning the Capture applications.

2.1.0 — 17 October 2024

LINPix multi-detector control and the first LINCam preview tool.

  • LINPix Control — controls multiple LINPix detectors from a single window: dynamic enumeration, per-row activation, persistent JSON configuration, master alarm, and a global photocathode switch.
  • LINCam Capture — first preview tool: live intensity rendering, timeline view, prev / next frame navigation.
  • LINTag Capture — independent "clear histogram" and "clear count rate" buttons, automatic restart of correlator tasks, hardened IRIG decoder, improved logging for unattended runs.

2.0.0 — 17 October 2024 (breaking)

LINCam Gen 4 — new detector generation; the Gen 3 wire protocol is no longer supported.

  • New lincam_v4 communications protocol; LINCam Capture, the Photonscore Python package and the .NET back-end all switch to it.
  • New protection logic: heater, cooler and high voltage are shut down automatically when the detector heartbeat is lost; corrected photocathode logic.

⚠ Migration: Gen 3 LINCam hardware is not supported by 2.x. Customers with Gen 3 detectors should remain on the 1.x line.

1.3.0 — 3 June 2024

LINTag remote control from Python, first documentation site, FLIM library.

  • LINTag Capture — gRPC remote-control service.
  • Photonscore Python — new photonscore.LINTag.LINTag module: channel configuration, correlator settings, file recording, static channel calibration.
  • Documentation — first version of the Photonscore Python documentation site (the predecessor of the page you are reading now).
  • Photonscore .NET — new Photonscore.FLIM library with image sub-range, median filtering, Gaussian IRF and decay models.

1.2.0 — 7 April 2024

Multi-device synchronisation.

  • Virtual TDC — combine multiple time taggers into one logical device through IRIG and a shared 10 MHz reference; complete IRIG stream decoder with regression tests.
  • LINTag Capture — semi-online batch correlator; output-delay control.
  • .photons recordings are now written with a .temp suffix and renamed on clean close to avoid leaving partial files behind.

1.1.0 — 5 February 2024

Slope control for LINCam, signed macOS application bundles.

  • LINCam Capture — slope (rising / falling edge) selection in advanced mode, ± 1500 ns offset range, drag-and-drop for .photons files, validating numeric input with increment / decrement.
  • LINTag — first stable V1 protocol; smaller tag buffers for low-rate measurements; write buffers flushed before file close.
  • macOS — signed and notarised .app bundles.

1.0.0 — 17 January 2024

Initial public release of the Photonscore software suite.

Latest — 2.8.1

Photonscore Python package

URLs follow the pattern https://dl.photonscore.io/py/<version>/<os>_<arch>/photonscore-python-<version>-<os>_<arch>-py<py>.zip.

Platform 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
macOS Apple Silicon py3.11 py3.12 py3.13 py3.14
Windows x64 py3.11 py3.12 py3.13 py3.14

MATLAB bindings

Platform Download
macOS Apple Silicon photonscore-matlab-2.8.1-macos_arm64.zip
Windows x64 photonscore-matlab-2.8.1-windows_x64.zip

Desktop applications

Signed and notarised on macOS; signed via Azure Trusted Signing on Windows.

Application macOS Apple Silicon Windows x64
LINCam Capture LINCamCapture-2.8.1-macos_arm64.zip LINCamCapture-2.8.1-windows_x64.zip
LINTag Capture LINTagCapture-2.8.1-macos_arm64.zip LINTagCapture-2.8.1-windows_x64.zip
LINPix Control / PhotonPix Control LINPixControl-2.8.1-macos_arm64.zip LINPixControl-2.8.1-windows_x64.zip

Photonscore .NET library

Planned — not yet released.

Golden images

Product File
LINCam t.b.d.
LINTag t.b.d.

Earlier releases

Historic Python builds remain available at https://dl.photonscore.io/py/<version>/ for as long as the corresponding hardware is supported.

Pre-release / branch builds

Every commit that lands on a feature branch produces a full wheel matrix at https://dl.photonscore.io/py/branches/<branch>/<commit-short-sha>/. The Buildkite build page for the commit links to the same artefacts.