FIRMWARE RELEASE NOTES
                        ======================

Products affected: M3014

Release date:      2016-11-23

Release type:      Production

Firmware version:  5.50.5

File name:         M3014_5_50_5.bin

Preceding release: 5.40.9.8

AMC version:       6.3.10.0

Onvif support:     Profile S

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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
============

5.50.5:F01
Local Language Support, ability to change the camera's user interface to other
languages than English.

5.50.5:F02
Edge Storage Disruption Detection, ability to be notified when the Edge Storage
detects disruptions that may need administrative attention, typically disk
unavailable, read/write error, disk full or disk locked.

5.50.5:F03
Text Overlay character set extension, ability to use non-western characters in
the video text overlay. Note that, Right-to-left languages such as Arabic are
not supported.

5.50.5:F04
Text Overlay Font Size, ability to select three different font sizes for the
video text overlay in order to increase readability, especially for high
resolution video.

5.50.5:F05
ONVIF Profile S conformance. The ONVIF Profile S replaces the ONVIF Version
1.02.

5.50.5:F06
Text Overlay Message Action, a camera action that provides a way to display a
user defined message in the image's text overlay upon a detected event.

5.50.5:F07
Email/SSL Recipient, ability for the camera to connect to common email services.
The camera includes predefined profiles for example, Gmail and Hotmail.

5.50.5:F08
HTTPS Recipient, systems using HTTP notifications from the camera can now do
this in a secure way over HTTPS.

5.50.5:F09
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.

5.50.5:F10
Live Stream Access Detection, it is now possible to notify people that someone
is actively monitoring a camera.

5.50.5:F11
System Ready Event, ability to get notified when the camera has booted and all
services are initialized.

5.50.5:F12
SSH (Secure Shell), a command line interface is added to the camera that may be
used for specific support and maintenance activities. Note that, SSH is not
enabled by default.

5.50.5:F13
Virtual Inputs, used by clients to initiate Action Rules in the camera. Virtual
Inputs extends the existing "Manual Trigger" with 32 additional.

5.50.5:F14
AXIS ACAP Applications, the behavior for AXIS Cross Line Detection 1.x and AXIS
Video Motion Detection 2.x has been improved, making it less prone to false
detection on small objects.

5.50.5:F15
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.

5.50.5:F16
Improved Constant Bitrate Control, the Constant Bit Rate (CBR) will now adjust
to target bit rate quicker.


Known Bugs/Limitations
======================

5.50.5:L01
To be able to use all parts of the image in a View Area use the 4:3 Aspect Ratio
for the View Area.

5.50.5:L02
90 and 270 rotation can cause a drop in frame rate.

5.50.5:L03
Multiple simultaneous recordings to SD cards and network shares can degrade the
performance of the system.

5.50.5:L04
Windows Network Shares do not handle all modifiers e.g. %c, since modifiers are
UNIX standard.

5.50.5:L05
Frame Size Control does not affect the size of the snapshot taken with the upper
right control that can be added to the Live View.

5.50.5:L06
If the device has ongoing continuous recordings and the device is restarted
using the restart option in web interface, the current part of recordings(block)
can not be accessed or downloaded through the web interface.

5.50.5:L07
Stream profile names are limited to alphanumerical characters.

5.50.5:L08
The AXIS Media Control client may stop displaying the H.264 video stream after
the PC has been locked.

5.50.5:L09
Live view does not work with QuickTime player using default settings.
Workaround: Disable Direct3D acceleration in Quicktime.

5.50.5:L10
When using an action rule results in short recordings, it is recommended to
extend post-event time.

5.50.5:L11
For actions based on PTZ events, it is  not possible to use the #P (PTZ preset
name) and #p (PTZ preset number) modifiers in the file names for network share
uploads.

5.50.5:L12
It's not recommended to downgrade to previous firmware when having HTTPS
enabled.

5.50.5:L13
Modifying a PTZ view area using API and afterwards clicking save in the web
interface, will cause the view area to revert to the old position.

5.50.5:L14
Time zone selection for Moscow Time is not correct according to the changes made
to this time zone.

5.50.5:L15
If text overlay is more than 460 characters long, no text will be displayed.

5.50.5:L16
Private keys need to be in a PKCS#1 format in order to function.

5.50.5:L17
A maximum of 100 installed certificates is allowed

5.50.5:L18
For low contrast scenes, false positives or negatives may occur because there is
not enough information for the Tampering alarm.

5.50.5:L19
If downgrading to previous firmware version, a factory default is recommended
after performing the downgrade.

5.50.5:L20
Using control queue with Java Applet may result in wrong queue positions if
switching between admin and viewer users.

5.50.5:L21
GOV values for stream profiles higher than 5000 are not supported.

5.50.5:L22
On Windows shares, upload paths for events needs to be created on the share
before use.

5.50.5:L23
Not possible to view live or recorded video in Internet Explorer 10 Modern UI in
Microsoft Windows 8.


Supported AXIS VAPIX API Image Resolutions for AXIS M3014
=========================================================

Resolution  Exceptions
==========  ==========

1280x800    2)
1280x720    1)
1024x768
1024x640    2)
800x600
800x500     2)
800x450     1)
640x480
640x400     2)
640x360     1)
480x360
480x300     2)
480x270     1)
320x240
320x200     2)
320x180     1)
240x180
240x135     1)
176x144     3)
160x120
160x100     2)
160x90      1)

1440x900    4) 5)
768x576     4)
720x576     4)
704x576     4)
704x480     4)
704x288     4)
704x240     4)
384x288     4)
352x288     4)
352x240     4)
192x144     4)
176x120     4)
80x50       4)

1) Widescreen (16:9)
2) 16:10 format
3) Not equally scaled
4) Not visible in web user interface
5) Upscaled resolution