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Optimize Axis integrations with the VAPIX Data Transformation API

What if your Axis camera could filter, format, and process metadata before sending it to your server or cloud?

With the VAPIX Data Transformation API, you can optimize AXIS Scene Metadata directly on the device — helping reduce bandwidth, simplify integrations, and offload processing from your backend.

Time to say goodbye to AMC and AMP SDK

Due to market shifts and the EU Cyber Resilience Act, we are discontinuing these two SDKs.

Introducing ACAP Developer Mode in AXIS OS 13

Build, test and debug ACAP apps without signing every build with the new AXIS OS 13 developer mode.

New release ACAP version 12.11

This update focuses on platform stability, expanded hardware support, and a significant cleanup of our developer documentation.

AXIS OS 13 preview

This preview package for AXIS OS 13 is provided to help you identify impacts and adapt integrations accordingly.

The ACAP Native SDK 13.0 preview

The preview is now available for early testing and migration validation against AXIS OS 13 preview.

Upcoming security-related breaking change in SRTP

Axis is removing support for weak ciphers in SRTP. This change is necessary to meet modern security standards.

Axis cameras support AV1 with integration guide

Use AV1 to put video, overlays, and metadata in one stream and makes it more flexible and without duplicates.

AXIS Scene Metadata update

New data source for object snapshots , dewarped views on ARTPEC-8, and version 1.0 for Analytics Data Format.

AXIS OS 13 Breaking changes

AXIS OS 13 is one of the biggest changes for Axis, becoming the operating system for over 200 smart devices.

Leverage MQTT for analytics metadata

Introducing a dedicated VAPIX Analytics MQTT API in AXIS OS 12.2, making applications more efficient when..

6 key technology trends

That will affect the security sector during 2026.

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Changes in the analytics metadata stream in AXIS OS 12.1

We are ensuring accurate tracking in more difficult conditions by reliably re-identifying objects.

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Enhanced ACAP SDK is now simpler and more efficient

To make development smoother and to ensure the highest standards of cybersecurity we are unifying our approach.

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Welcome to Axis for Developers

Your developer experience with Axis is about to get efficient, streamlined, and more open.

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News from 2024

December 5, 2024
New release ACAP version 12.1

November 29, 2024
Changes in the analytics metadata stream in AXIS OS 12.1

November 5, 2024
New release ACAP version 12.0

May 12, 2023 (Updated October 14, 2024)
Breaking changes: Removal of root-privileged access and ACAP application signing as default

September 6, 2024
Simplifying your application development with the enhanced ACAP SDK

August 30, 2024
Security patch in AXIS OS will enforce downgrade restrictions

July 5, 2024
New release ACAP version 4.15

June 25, 2024
Changes in the analytics metadata stream in AXIS OS 12.0

May 31, 2024
AXIS Scene Metadata integration

May 16, 2024
New release ACAP version 4.14

April 4, 2024
Learn what's new in the upcoming AXIS OS 11.10

Mach 13, 2024
Body Worn Integration API, Container name change in AXIS OS 11.11

March 7, 2024
New release ACAP version 4.13

February 8, 2024
Updated AXIS Joystick SDK - supporting AXIS TU90 joystick and keypad

February 7, 2024
Updated AXIS Media Control SDK

February 1, 2024
New example ACAP application - OPC UA Color Checker

January 24, 2024
New release ACAP version 4.12

January 23, 2024
Axis achieve ETSI EN 303 645 cybersecurity certification

January 18, 2024
AXIS OS version 11.8 is now available

January 18, 2024
The 5 technology trends affecting the security sector in 2024

News from 2023

November 28, 2023
Multicast controller for Axis network speakers

November 23, 2023
New release ACAP version 4.11

November 2, 2023
Additional security in AXIS OS and ACAP applications

October 27, 2023
New benefit! Download AXIS OS beta releases

October 11, 2023
Hybrid machine learning – Hard hat detection using AXIS Object Analytics and Amazon Rekognition

October 11, 2023
Industry 4.0 integration guidelines

September 29, 2023
ACAP: New release ACAP version 4.10

September 15, 2023
Upcoming breaking changes in AXIS OS

September 15, 2023
New features and security patch in AXIS OS 11.6

September 1, 2023
Zipstream integration guide

August 31, 2023 - Updated
Simplified Rate Control API

August 11, 2023
Security patch in AXIS OS will enforce downgrade restrictions

August 9, 2023
AXIS S30 Recorder Series integration guide

July 26, 2023
AMC SDK and AMP SDK - new versions available

July 10, 2023
Online access to more than 200 Axis products

July 3, 2023
ACAP: New release ACAP version 4.9

June 30, 2023
Introducing breaking changes for VAPIX PTZ Metadata

June 28, 2023
Minimize storage and bandwidth, now even more

June 16, 2023
AXIS Object Analytics Occupancy in area (Beta)

June 8, 2023
Axis network strobe siren integration guide

June 7, 2023
Adding upper and lower clothing color in the metadata stream

April 28, 2023
ACAP: New release ACAP version 4.8

April 18, 2023
VAPIX mDNS service

March 9, 2023
ACAP: New release ACAP version 4.7

February 27, 2023
Changes in overlay modificiations through parameter CGI

February 23, 2023
AXIS Object Analytics Crossline counting (Beta)

February 17, 2023
Compare machine learning performance between Axis architectures

February 3, 2023
ACAP: New release ACAP version 4.6

January 31, 2023
ACAP Runtime released as open source on GitHub

January 3, 2023
Analytics Metadata Producer Configuration API

Engineering at Axis

Read about the magic and people behind our technology.

Breaking Kubernetes job controller with 7,500 crashlooping pods

Read about Anton's experience on how they broke Kubernetes Job Controller with 7500 Crashlooping Pods.

Precision Time Protocol (PTP) support in AXIS OS

Read Joakim's latest story about time synchronization and the added support for Precision Time Protocol (PTP)

Slim Device Software with systemd Targets and nspawn: Axis at All Systems Go! 2025

Listen to our All Systems Go! presentation where we take a bottom-up approach to slicing our device software.

Usability Studies – Small Cchanges, large impact

The story of how smoothies, four tasks, and a Hackathon helped us with a new approach to our usability testing.

Cry over spilled milk no more – Axis cameras to the rescue

Read Joakim's story on how he helped save dozens of tons of milk with a simple color checker solution.

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Hacking a Body Worn Camera to run Doom!

AXIS W120 Body Worn Camera features everything you need to take your handheld gaming to the next level!

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Why you should not trust JSON decoding

Read about Anton's experience with JSON, why he thinks you shouldn't trust JSON decoding and what lessons he learned for the future.

How we turned our writing guidelines into an AI colleague

We set out to create an AI tool that not only enforces our writing guidelines but also streamlines content creation.

Sharing our Backstage Plugins Journey: Lessons learned from open sourcing

Read about why the Axis Backstage team decided to start our open source journey (and why we almost didn’t).

Challenges of an Electronics Engineer

Get a quick overview of some areas where Electronics Engineer often face problems.

Why you should make good documentation a habit

Documentation is an important but often overlooked part of the software development process. In this blog post I explain why you should make documentation a habit.

Small, friendly Linux devices

Axis devices are small, friendly Linux® devices. At Axis, we know this of course, but outside our company walls, it seems not to be common knowledge.

Axis attends the 2023 GStreamer Conference in A Coruña

In late September 2023, a group of Axis engineers from the Axis OS Development Department set off to A Coruña, Spain to attend the GStreamer conference at Palexco

Is green plastic making the products inferior?

Is the move towards greener plastics making the products inferior compared to using conventional plastics, or could the opposite be true?

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