FIRMWARE RELEASE NOTE ====================== Products affected: AXIS P5534-E PTZ Dome Network Camera Release date: 2018-09-04 Release type: Production Firmware version: 5.51.5 Preceding release: 5.41.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Upgrade instructions ==================== Upgrade the firmware according to the instructions given at https://www.axis.com/ca/en/support/tecnical-notes/how-to-upgrade or howtoupgrade.txt, which is included in the firmware folder. NOTE ==================== For latest information about Axis Cybersecurity, see https://www.axis.com/se/sv/support/product-security. New Features ==================== 5.51.5:F01 Local Language Support, ability to change the camera's user interface to other languages than English. 5.51.5: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. 5.51.5: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. 5.51.5: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. 5.51.5:F05 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. 5.51.5:F06 Email/SSL Recipient, ability for the camera to connect to common email services. The camera includes predefined profiles for example, Gmail and Hotmail. 5.51.5:F07 HTTPS Recipient, systems using HTTP notifications from the camera can now do this in a secure way over HTTPS. 5.51.5:F08 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. 5.51.5:F9 Live Stream Access Detection, it is now possible to notify people that someone is actively monitoring a camera. 5.51.5:F10 System Ready Event, ability to get notified when the camera has booted and all services are initialized. 5.51.5:F11 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. 5.51.5:F12 Virtual Inputs, used by clients to initiate Action Rules in the camera. Virtual Inputs extends the existing "Manual Trigger" with 32 additional. 5.51.5:F13 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. 5.51.5:F14 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. 5.51.5:F15 Improved Constant Bitrate Control, the Constant Bit Rate (CBR) will now adjust to target bit rate quicker. Known Bugs/Limitations ====================== 5.51.5: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. 5.51.5:L02 Multiple simultaneous recordings to SD cards and network shares can degrade the performance of the system. 5.51.5:L03 Windows Network Shares do not handle all modifiers e.g. %c, since modifiers are UNIX standard. 5.51.5:L04 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. 5.51.5:L05 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. 5.51.5:L06 Stream profile names are limited to alphanumerical characters. 5.51.5:L07 The AXIS Media Control client may stop displaying the H.264 video stream after the PC has been locked. 5.51.5:L08 Live view does not work with QuickTime player using default settings. Workaround: Disable Direct3D acceleration in Quicktime. 5.51.5:L9 When using an action rule results in short recordings, it is recommended to extend post-event time. 5.51.5:L10 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. 5.51.5:L11 It's not recommended to downgrade to previous firmware when having HTTPS enabled. 5.51.5:L12 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. 5.51.5:L13 If text overlay is more than 460 characters long, no text will be displayed. 5.51.5:L14 Private keys need to be in a PKCS#1 format in order to function. 5.51.5:L15 A maximum of 100 installed certificates is allowed 5.51.5:L16 For low contrast scenes, false positives or negatives may occur because there is not enough information for the Tampering alarm. 5.51.5:L17 If downgrading to previous firmware version, a factory default is recommended after performing the downgrade. 5.51.5:L18 Using control queue with Java Applet may result in wrong queue positions if switching between admin and viewer users. 5.51.5:L19 GOV values for stream profiles higher than 5000 are not supported. 5.51.5:L20 On Windows shares, upload paths for events needs to be created on the share before use. Supported AXIS VAPIX API Image Resolutions for AXIS P5534-E Resolution Exceptions ========== ========== 1280x720 800x450 480x270 320x180 1024x768 1) 1024x576 1) 800x600 1) 768x576 1) 720x576 1) 704x576 1) 704x480 1) 704x288 1) 704x240 1) 640x480 1) 640x360 1) 480x360 1) 384x288 1) 352x288 1) 352x240 1) 320x240 1) 240x180 1) 192x144 1) 176x144 1) 176x120 1) 160x120 1) 160x90 1) 1) Not visible in web user interface 90/270 degrees rotation is not supported.