FIRMWARE RELEASE NOTES ====================== Products affected: AXIS P1204, AXIS P1214, AXIS P1214-E, AXIS P1224-E, AXIS P8524 and AXIS M2014-E Release date: 2015-11-12 Release type: Production Firmware version: 5.50.6 File name: M2014_5_50_6.bin Preceding release: 5.40.12.4 AMC version: 6.3.12.7-1 Onvif support: Profile S ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ UPGRADE INSTRUCTIONS ==================== The firmware can be upgraded using Axis Camera Management, HTTP or FTP. Please follow the instructions from the user's manual, the web page at http://www.axis.com/techsup/cam_servers/how_to_upgrade.htm or the file named howtoupgrade.txt. New Features ============ 5.50.6:F01 Edge Storage Disruption Detection, ability to be notified when Edge Storage detects disruptions that may need administrative attention, typically disk unavailable, read/write error, disk full or disk locked. 5.50.6:F02 Text Overlay character set extension, ability to use non-western characters in the video text overlay. Note that Right-to-left languages (e.g. Arabic) are not supported. 5.50.6:F03 Email/SSL Recipient, ability for the camera to connect to common email services. The camera includes predefined profiles for e.g. Gmail and Hotmail. 5.50.6:F04 HTTPS Recipient, systems using HTTP notifications from the camera can now do this in a secure way over HTTPS. 5.50.6:F05 Upload Video Clip Action, ability to upload a video clip to an FTP server or an email recipient upon an event. Note that a media player with support for H.264 and Matroska File Format (MKV) is required to play the clip. 5.50.6:F06 Live Stream Access Detection, it is now possible to notify people that someone is actively monitoring a camera. 5.50.6:F07 Edge Storage Device Redundancy, ability to automatically switch recording device between SD Card and NAS if one device detects disruption. 5.50.6:F08 System Ready Event, ability to get notified when the camera has booted and all services are initialized. 5.50.6:F9 Virtual Inputs, used by clients to initiate Action Rules in the camera. Virtual Inputs extends the existing "Manual Trigger" with 32 additional virtual inputs which could be executed through the webservice API. 5.50.6:F10 Centralized Certificate Management, certificates for HTTPS and 802.1x are now managed in one place. The firmware also includes a number of pre-installed CA certificates such as Verisign, Thawt and GeoTrust. 5.50.6:F11 Improved Constant Bitrate Control, the Constant Bit Rate (CBR) will now adjust to target bit rate quicker. 5.50.6:F12 SSH (Secure Shell), a command line interface is added to the camera that may be used for specific support and maintenance activities. Note. Not enabled by default. 5.50.6:F13 Axis is now extending SNMP with AXIS Video MIB (Management Information Base). The Video MIB enables notification of a number of possible disruptions in Axis products such as fan failure, temperature limits, storage disruptions, tampering, video/audio connectors disconnect, etc via SNMP traps. Corrections in 5.50.6 since 5.40.12.4 =================================================== 5.50.6:C1 Support for Internet Explorer 11 added. 5.50.6:C2 The possibility to use dynamic text in text overlay is added. 5.50.6:C3 Daylight savings time now works properly for IDT. 5.50.6:C4 To avoid false triggering Audio detection level is raised to max. To use Audio detection this level has to be adjusted before creating an event that utilizes audio detection. 5.50.6:C5 The Axis Java Applet is now signed with a trusted certificate. For more information on supported Java versions, see http://www.axis.com/techsup/. Known Bugs/Limitations ====================== 5.50.6:L01 The frame rate when requesting multiple streams from the camera is lower compared to when using FW 5.40.12.4. 5.50.6:L02 Event trigger data is sent even if user data is disabled 5.50.6:L03 Date & Time settings are reset when performing a Factory Restore. 5.50.6:L04 It is not possible to select starting point when playing back a recording while using multicast and h264. 5.50.6:L05 Constant bit rate might fluctuate more than 10%. Supported AXIS VAPIX API Image Resolutions ======================================================================================== Resolution Exceptions ========== ========== 1280x720 800x600 800x450 640x480 640x360 480x360 480x270 320x240 320x180 1024x768 1) 1024x640 1) 800x500 1) 768x576 1) 720x576 1) 704x576 1) 704x480 1) 704x288 1) 704x240 1) 640x400 1) 480x300 1) 384x288 1) 352x288 1) 352x240 1) 320x200 1) 240x180 1) 240x135 1) 192x144 1) 176x144 1) 176x120 1) 160x120 1) 160x100 1) 160x90 1) 80x50 1) 1) Not visible in web user interface