# About this Release

Cognex Designer 4.1 PR2 introduces multiple new or changed capabilities since the previous generally available (GA) release (4.0.0). For a brief summary of key features in version 4.1 PR2, play the video.

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- Supports VisionPro 9.5
- Performance Monitoring - Browse performance statistics relating to your Cognex Designer application's task execution time, memory usage, and garbage collection details, using the Analyzing Application Performance with Performance Profiler, which runs and monitors tasks in a project and produces a report and CSV file. See a breakdown of block execution times in a succinct bar-graph format using the Displaying Block Time Performance Data
- Efficient, Less Disruptive Garbage Collection - The Resource-intensive Dynamic Garbage Collection present in releases 4.0.0 and before has been deprecated. Settings have been changed to allow Background Garbage Collection which can lessen performance impact. This new Garbage Collection setting is enabled by default for all new projects. See the Analyzing Application Performance with Performance Profiler Scheduling Garbage Collection
- Performance Tuning - Tune performance metrics by Scheduling Garbage Collection and implementing processor Load Balancing Using Core Assignments.
- Graphics Consolidation - Combine multiple supported graphics and image formats into a single CogRecord for convenient and efficient processing in Cognex applications. See the VisionPro Tool Block Graphics Options topic for complete details.
- Project Types - Drastically accelerate the development of your vision applications using Accelerating Development With Predefined Project Types. With a single click, launch a fully defined project template that can be quickly customized. Project Types enable you to spend more time developing vision applications and less time creating HMIs or writing scripts.
- Getting Started Tutorials - Walk through every phase of creating a standalone Vision Application with these Getting Started Getting Started that let you learn at your own pace, with only the content that applies to your needs.

Note: See the Release History topics for a summary of major new capabilities that were introduced in the previous releases of Cognex Designer.