FIRMWARE RELEASE NOTES ====================== Products affected: AXIS M3113/M3114/P8513/P8514 Network Camera Release date: 2017-05-15 Release type: Production Firmware version: 5.50.5 File name: M3114_5_50_5.bin Preceding release: 5.40.9.8 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 ============ 5.50.5: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 M3113/M3114/P8513/P8514 =========================================================================== Resolution Exceptions ========== ========== 1440x900 1) 2) 1280x800 2) 1280x720 2) 1024x768 2) 1024x640 2) 800x600 800x500 800x450 640x480 640x400 640x360 480x360 480x300 480x270 320x240 320x200 320x180 240x180 176x144 160x120 160x100 160x90 768x576 1) 720x576 1) 704x576 1) 704x480 1) 704x288 1) 704x240 1) 384x288 1) 352x288 1) 352x240 1) 240x135 1) 192x144 1) 176x120 1) 80x60 1) 3) 80x50 1) 2) 1) Not visible in web user interface 2) Only valid for M3114/P8514 3) Only valid for M3113/P8513