FIRMWARE RELEASE NOTES
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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

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UPGRADE INSTRUCTIONS
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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
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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
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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
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Resolution  Exceptions
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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