FIRMWARE RELEASE NOTES ====================== Products affected: AXIS 206 rev2 Network Camera Release date: 2006-06-30 Release type: Production Firmware version: 4.40 File name: 206_2_440.bin Preceding release: 4.38 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- UPGRADE INSTRUCTIONS ==================== The firmware can be upgraded using Axis Camera Management 2.0, HTTP or FTP. Please follow the instruction from the user manual, web page or the file named howtoupgrade.txt RELEASE 4.40 ============ News in 4.40 ============ 4.40:01 Support for QoS. 4.40:02 Support for Bonjour. 4.40:03 New HTTP API command allows retrieval of parameter definitions in XML format. 4.40:04 Added parameter containing path to administrators web page. 4.40:05 Added support to disable insecure services. 4.40:06 Axis Media Control handles stopped motion data stream and includes SVG support. 4.40:07 Added process list, /proc/netstat, ifconfig and vmstatus to the Server Report. 4.40:08 Language pages updated. 4.40:09 The view size buttons in Live View have been removed. 4.40:10 A toolbar with a play and stop button is now available when using the Mozilla Firefox and Netscape Web browsers. Corrections in 4.40 since 4.38 ============================== 4.40:11 Corrected problem with time setup. 4.40:12 Corrected a problem that caused overlay to not always be displayed in motion-JPEG. 4.40:13 Corrected a backward compatibility problem with the audio dll in Axis Media Control. 4.40:14 Requests of images with unsupported resolutions no longer returns corrupted images. 4.40:15 The DDNS now reports to the log if the host address was updated properly or if it failed to update. 4.40:16 The port number should now update properly with the UPnP service. 4.40:17 Corrected error on live view page with AMC as default viewer. image does not produce this error). 4.40:18 Corrected the second option in the drop down list "Specify date format" to "Www Mmm DD YYYY". 4.40:19 When changing the HTTP port in Advanced network settings, the port is now correctly shown in HTML Examples. 4.40:20 When the DUT:s IP is changed, the change now shows in i.e IP-utility. 4.40:21 When using DDNS (Windows Server 2003), the real IP-address is now registered in the DNS. 4.40:22 If primary dns-server is online but the DNS service is unavailable (e.g a standard Windows XP machine was set as primary dns server by mistake), the secondary dns server is now correctly contacted. 4.40:23 The DDNS (Windows server 2003) is now correctly updated when the IP-address of the DUT changes. Known limitations in 4.40 ========================= 4.40:01 If you set compression to 0% the frame rate may decrease substantially for Motion JPEG for certain scenes. This is because the image size may not exceed 128 KB. Workaround: Set the compression to 5% instead. The image quality will not suffer noticeably, but the image size will be much smaller. 4.40:02 Including format field #b or #B in text overlay will show incorrect bandwidth usage when frame rate is limited for Motion JPEG. 4.40:03 If viewing the image stream on Mac OS X with Mozilla Firefox or Camino using the AXIS Media Java Applet, a third party plugin may be needed to get the browser to use the correct Java version. The Java Embedding Plugin can be found at http://javaplugin.sourceforge.net/. 4.40:04 When saving a snapshot image, some Web browsers (e.g. Mozilla) will fetch a new picture and the saved picture will not match the displayed snapshot. 4.40:05 The Mozilla Web browser does not always close the image stream properly when leaving the Live View page. Restarting the stream can sometimes fail as well. Restarting Mozilla solves these two problems. 4.40:06 Some Korean translations are missing. Application Developer Information ================================= Supported AXIS VAPIX API Image Resolutions Resolution Exceptions ========== ========== 640x480 640x360 320x240 160x120 The AXIS VAPIX API - Application Programming Interface - found at www.axis.com is supported by the AXIS 206 rev2. The following groups are supported by the AXIS 206 rev2. Fore more information please refer to the AXIS VAPIX HTTP API specification version 2, part of the AXIS VAPIX API, available at www.axis.com. Group Exceptions ===== ========== General Image and Video Video status