ibaVision v3 supports the same HALCON functionalities as v2 and all configurations and programs are forward (but not backward) compatible between v2 and v3. Despite this, it is still highly advised to create backup copies of all v2 configurations before trying to load them into v3 for the first time.

The communication to ibaPDA has been changed extensively and ibaPDA v8.0.0 or newer is required to work with ibaVision v3. When upgrading from ibaVision v2/ibaPDA v7, the I/O-configuration in ibaPDA has to be adapted manually after updating both ibaPDA and ibaVision.