FIRMWARE RELEASE NOTES ====================== Products affected: M5014 Release date: 2013-11-27 Release type: Production Firmware version: 5.50.3 File name: M5014_5_50_3.bin Preceding release: 5.40.11.2 AMC version: 6.3.10.0 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 ============ 5.50.3:F01 Local Language Support, ability to change the camera's user interface to other languages than English. 5.50.3: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. 5.50.3: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. 5.50.3: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. 5.50.3:F05 ONVIF Profile S conformance. The ONVIF Profile S replaces the ONVIF Version 1.02. 5.50.3: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. 5.50.3:F07 Email/SSL Recipient, ability for the camera to connect to common email services. The camera includes predefined profiles for example, Gmail and Hotmail. 5.50.3:F08 HTTPS Recipient, systems using HTTP notifications from the camera can now do this in a secure way over HTTPS. 5.50.3: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. 5.50.3:F10 Live Stream Access Detection, it is now possible to notify people that someone is actively monitoring a camera. 5.50.3:F11 System Ready Event, ability to get notified when the camera has booted and all services are initialized. 5.50.3:F12 Virtual Inputs, used by clients to initiate Action Rules in the camera. Virtual Inputs extends the existing "Manual Trigger" with 32 additional. 5.50.3:F13 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. 5.50.3:F14 Improved Constant Bitrate Control, the Constant Bit Rate (CBR) will now adjust to target bit rate quicker. 5.50.3:F15 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. Corrections in 5.50.3 since 5.40.11.2 ===================================== 5.50.3:C01 Daylight saving time now works properly for Iran. 5.50.3:C02 ISO 8859-1 characters are displayed correctly in motion detection names. 5.50.3:C03 Up to 127 characters can be used in the 'From email address' field. 5.50.3:C04 It is possible to add IP addresses to the IP filter list in the web interface. 5.50.3:C05 When a PTZ VAPIX call to ptz.cgi is done with several commands including the unsupported ones, the correct commands will be executed instead of being discarded. 5.50.3:C06 It is now possible to use HTTPS and port forwarding. 5.50.3:C07 It is no longer necessary to restart the camera after configuring default router parameter via VAPIX. 5.50.3:C08 Configuration of time zone for Australia appears correctly in the web interface. 5.50.3:C09 Double & (&&) are no longer present in HTTP notifications. The Action rule gives a valid URI. 5.50.3:C10 ONVIF: The Web Services parameter and consequently the information in System Overview relating to whether Web Services is enabled has been removed. ONVIF is enabled by specifying an ONVIF administrator in Security > ONVIF settings. 5.50.3:C11 Accessing the AVHS portal through a proxy is now working. 5.50.3:C12 The error condition encountered when creating two similar action rules (or by a copied action rule) has been fixed. 5.50.3:C13 Network share size will now be displayed as GB if less than TB in the web interface. 5.50.3:C14 The default resolution has been changed from 720p to 1280x960. 5.50.3:C15 Setting Always multicast TTL (Time To Live) to '0' is now working as expected. 5.50.3:C16 Use of IPs starting with 169.154.x.x is now properly reserved for link-local addresses. 5.50.3:C17 The #e modifier now displays proper event names. 5.50.3:C18 The Edge Storage disc utilization has been improved, this will also result in increased video retention time especially for larger discs. 5.50.3:C19 Issue where incorrect multicast addresses were used, has been corrected. 5.50.3:C20 It is now possible to use 169.254.x.x as a static IP. 5.50.3:C21 Improved ONVIF stability when no default router is configured and link-local IPv4 address is used. 5.50.3:C22 Correct network speed is now displayed when using SNMP network speed check. 5.50.3:C23 The Log message 'RTSP Login Failed' that relates to client RTSP commands after the nonce has expired has been removed, since the behavior is correct. 5.50.3:C24 Fixed an issue with the Axis Name Service and some router models. 5.50.3:C25 Support for Internet Explorer 11 added. 5.50.3:C26 The possibility to use dynamic text in text overlay is added. 5.50.3:C27 Daylight savings time now works properly for IDT. 5.50.3:C28 Before creating an event that utilizes audio detection, the audio detection level must be adjusted. Known Bugs/Limitations ====================== 5.50.3:L01 The camera can not play an audio clip while a viewer is sending/receiving audio from to/from the camera. 5.50.3:L02 Recording streams to SD Card with a total bit rate above 12Mbit/sec may cause missing frames/sequences. 5.50.3:L03 Multiple simultaneous recordings to SD cards and network shares can degrade the performance of the system. 5.50.3:L04 Windows Network Shares do not handle all modifiers e.g. %c, since modifiers are UNIX standard. 5.50.3: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. 5.50.3: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. 5.50.3:L07 Stream profile names are limited to alphanumerical characters. 5.50.3:L08 Check and repair is only available if the file system is ext4. 5.50.3:L09 The AXIS Media Control client may stop displaying the H.264 video stream after the PC has been locked. 5.50.3:L10 Live view does not work with QuickTime player using default settings. Workaround: Disable Direct3D acceleration in Quicktime. 5.50.3:L11 When using an action rule results in short recordings, it is recommended to extend post-event time. 5.50.3:L12 To avoid corrupt recordings, it is recommended to unmount the SD Card before ejecting it. 5.50.3:L13 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. 5.50.3:L14 It's not recommended to downgrade to previous firmware when having HTTPS enabled. 5.50.3:L15 Video overlay text size is a global setting and can not be set for each stream profile. 5.50.3:L16 If text overlay is more than 460 characters long, no text will be displayed. 5.50.3:L17 Private keys need to be in a PKCS#1 format in order to function. 5.50.3:L18 A maximum of 100 installed certificates is allowed 5.50.3:L19 If downgrading to previous firmware version, a factory default is recommended after performing the downgrade. 5.50.3:L20 Using control queue with Java Applet may result in wrong queue positions if switching between admin and viewer users. 5.50.3:L21 GOV values for stream profiles higher than 5000 are not supported. 5.50.3:L22 On Windows shares, upload paths for events needs to be created on the share before use. 5.50.3:L23 Not possible to view live or recorded video in Internet Explorer 10 Modern UI in Microsoft Windows 8. 5.50.3:L24 Time zone selection for Moscow Time is not correct according to the changes made to this time zone. 5.50.3:L25 Reboot is necessary after enabling SOCKS. 5.50.3:L26 With audio enabled, setting GOV lengths with I-frames more than 20 seconds apart may render the recordings unplayable via the web interface. 5.50.3:L27 When changing active https-certificate, the device needs to be restarted before it becomes active. 5.50.3:L28 Upgrading from firmware 5.40 and prior requires an upgrade of the recordings database. This can take up to five minutes and is conducted on first boot. Make sure to not remove power or SD card during the first five minutes after upgrading the device. 5.50.3:L29 Occasionally, G711 audio can lag when using Java applet. 5.50.3:L30 Embedded Motion Detection: When object size is set to low and sensitivity set to high, motion detection can occasionally be triggered when switching the IR filter on/off. Supported AXIS VAPIX API Image Resolutions for AXIS M5014 ========================================================= Resolution Exceptions ========== ========== 1280x720 800x600 800x450 640x480 640x360 480x360 480x270 320x240 320x180 768x576 1) 720x576 1) 704x576 1) 800x500 1) 704x480 1) 640x400 1) 704x288 1) 704x240 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