v2.1.0

About

Significant bug fixes and performance improvements since NIST's initial 2016 release.

Details

• New command-line interface with pre-compiled binaries (see Assets below)
• Significantly improved API and pre-compiled development libraries (see Assets below)
• Stable feature values and scores across all operating systems

Install

• Windows (.msi): Double-click to install and follow prompts
• macOS (.pkg): Double-click to install and follow prompts
  • Note: Depending on GateKeeper settings, you may need to follow the instructions on this page under the heading If you want to open an app that hasn’t been notarized or is from an unidentified developer. We are working with NIST IT to notarize our releases soon and apologize for the inconvenience.
  • Note: If you have Mac with an M1 CPU, we suggest downloading the arm64 version below for the best performance.
• RHEL/CentOS 8 (.rpm): sudo dnf install *el8*rpm
  • Note: You may need to enable the powertools repo with dnf config-manager --set-enabled powertools and EPEL repo (with dnf install epel-release) to find all required system dependencies for the command-line application.
• RHEL/CentOS 7 (.rpm): sudo yum install *el7*rpm
  • Note: You may need to enable the EPEL repo (with yum install epel-release) to find all required system dependencies for the command-line application.
• Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (.deb): sudo apt install ./*deb

Run

• RHEL/CentOS/Ubuntu/macOS: /usr/local/bin/nfiq2
• Windows 64-bit: C:\Program Files\NFIQ 2\bin\nfiq2.exe
• Windows 32-bit: C:\Program Files (x86)\NFIQ 2\bin\nfiq2.exe

Documentation

• On macOS and Linux, add /usr/local/nfiq2/share/man to your MANPATH for correct man nfiq2 behavior.

Developer Documentation

Developer documentation for v2.1.0 of the NFIQ 2 API is available on our documentation page.