FIRMWARE RELEASE NOTE
======================

Products affected: AXIS Q6035-E PTZ Dome Network Camera

Release date:      2018-05-18

Release type:      Production

Firmware version:  5.51.5

File name:         Q6035-E_5_51_5.bin

Preceding release: 5.41.4

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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.

NOTE
====================

For latest information about Axis Cybersecurity, see
https://www.axis.com/se/sv/support/product-security.


Corrections in 5.51.5 since 5.41.4
==================================

5.51.5:C01
Corrected an issue that caused event notifications not been triggered on storage
disruption.

5.51.5:C02
Improved re-connection behavior to AVHS server. The time between failed connection
attempts will now gradually increase until a hard limit is reached.

5.51.5:C03
A user with administrator rights can now upload PTZ drivers for those cameras supporting
this feature. Note that a factory default will be required to remove the old permissions
sets from the firmware.

5.51.5:C04
Corrected an issue that caused an overload of the CPU after enabling IP adress filtering.

5.51.5:C05
Corrected common vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel to increase overall minimum cyber
security level. CVE-2010-2960, CVE-2010-4175.

5.51.5:C06
Patched security vulernability CVE-2018-14526 in WPA supplicant to increase overall
minimum cyber security level.


New Features in 5.51.5
======================

5.51.5:F01
SD card clean-up improvement, make better use of the available storage capacity on larger SD cards.

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

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

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

5.51.5: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.

5.51.5: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.

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

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

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

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

5.51.5: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.

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

5.51.5: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.

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

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

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

5.51.5:L17
A maximum of 100 installed certificates is allowed

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

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

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

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

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

5.51.5: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
=========================================================

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

1920x1080
1280x720
800x450
480x270
320x180

1280x960    1)
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 degress rotation is not supported.