FIRMWARE RELEASE NOTES ====================== Products affected: Q1921/-E Release date: 2013-06-19 Release type: Production Firmware version: 5.50.2 File name: Q1921_5_50_2.bin Preceding release: 5.20.3 AMC version: 6.2.10.12-1 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 ============ 5.50.2:F01 32 Privacy masks, ability to configure up to 32 simultaneous privacy masks. 5.50.2: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. 5.50.2: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. 5.50.2: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. 5.50.2:F05 ONVIF Profile S conformance. The ONVIF Profile S replaces the ONVIF Version 1.02. 5.50.2: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. 5.50.2:F07 Email/SSL Recipient, ability for the camera to connect to common email services. The camera includes predefined profiles for example, Gmail and Hotmail. 5.50.2:F08 HTTPS Recipient, systems using HTTP notifications from the camera can now do this in a secure way over HTTPS. 5.50.2: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. 5.50.2:F10 Live Stream Access Detection, it is now possible to notify people that someone is actively monitoring a camera. 5.50.2:F11 Edge Storage Device Redundancy, ability to automatically switch recording device between SD Card and NAS if one device detects disruption. 5.50.2:F12 Virtual Inputs, used by clients to initiate Action Rules in the camera. Virtual Inputs extends the existing "Manual Trigger" with 32 additional. 5.50.2: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. 5.50.2:F14 Improved Constant Bitrate Control, the Constant Bit Rate (CBR) will now adjust to target bit rate quicker. 5.50.2: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. 5.50.2:F16 Edge storage with support for CIFS/SMB (Microsoft Network share). 5.50.2:F17 ext4 file system support for SD Card. Axis recommends SD Card users to use the camera to format the SD Card with ext4 instead of the default vFAT. ext4 will increase recording reliability compared to vFAT. Note that SD Cards formatted with ext4 cannot be read by a Microsoft PC without installing additional ext4 drivers on the PC. 5.50.2:F18 The internal Event Management system has been redesigned and VAPIX has been extended with a new Event-API based on Web-Services. Utask has been removed and with that the possibility to start scripts and applications from user.task.list. The legacy user action rules in the camera will continue to work but will not be visible in the camera user interface unless converted to the new design. Event Management user interface (GUI) has been redesigned. For more information please see User's manual. 5.50.2:F19 Always Multicast. Provides the ability to multicast video regardless of whether clients are accessing the streams or not. 5.50.2:F20 Storage Management 1. Clean up policy is enabled by default and the default value for the parameter is 1 week. 2. Parameter for clean up level is in the Plain Config and default is set at approximately 90% of the storage device capacity. 3. The start time of a recording is updated when data is removed due to clean up policy. 5.50.2:F21 Audio Detection history graph (GUI). The audio history level graph simplifies configuration of audio detection. 5.50.2:F22 Port status is now located under System Options -> Ports & Devices -> I/O Ports. 5.50.2:F23 Server Report download. Possibility to download a ZIP-file server report (with or without camera snapshot). This simplifies the process of attaching the server report when submitting a support ticket. Corrections in 5.50.2 since 5.20.3 ========================================= 5.50.2:C01 Daylight saving time now works properly for Iran. 5.50.2:C02 ISO 8859-1 characters are displayed correctly in motion detection names and OSDI zone names. 5.50.2:C03 Up to 127 characters can be used in the 'From email address' field. 5.50.2:C04 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. 5.50.2:C05 It is now possible to use HTTPS and port forwarding. 5.50.2:C06 It is no longer necessary to restart the camera after configuring default router parameter via VAPIX. 5.50.2:C07 Configuration of time zone for Australia appears correctly in the web interface. 5.50.2:C08 Double & (&&) are no longer present in HTTP notifications. The Action rule gives a valid URI. 5.50.2:C09 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. 5.50.2:C10 Changing palette no longer result in web page script error. 5.50.2:C11 Accessing the AVHS portal through a proxy is now working. 5.50.2:C12 Date modifiers "%m-%d-%Y" are now formatted correctly when used with folder name, SMTP subject and message. 5.50.2:C13 Pelco drivers are now pre-loaded for using PT motors or PTZ camera through RS485. 5.50.2:C14 Setting Always multicast TTL (Time To Live) to '0' is now working as expected. 5.50.2:C15 Fixed behavior for serial cgi “writestring=”. 5.50.2:C16 Use of IPs starting with 169.154.x.x is now properly reserved for link-local addresses. 5.50.2:C17 The Edge Storage disc utilization has been improved, this will also result in increased video retention time especially for larger discs. 5.50.2:C18 It is now possible to use 169.254.x.x as a static IP. 5.50.2:C19 Issue with fixed pattern noise at low temperatures, has been fixed. 5.50.2:C20 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. Known Bugs/Limitations ====================== 5.50.2:L01 Zoom is shown on live view page when using java applet as default viewer, even though it is not supported. 5.50.2:L02 Recording streams to SD Card with a total bit rate above 12Mbit/sec may cause missing frames/sequences. 5.50.2:L03 90 and 270 rotation can cause a drop in frame rate. 5.50.2:L04 Multiple simultaneous recordings to SD cards and network shares can degrade the performance of the system. 5.50.2:L05 Windows Network Shares do not handle all modifiers e.g. %c, since modifiers are UNIX standard. 5.50.2:L06 When Guard Tour is active, it is not possible to use PTZ controls with Viewer access rights. 5.50.2:L07 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. 5.50.2:L08 Sound from the mechanical shutter may be heard in the recorded audio clip when using the internal microphone. 5.50.2:L09 Stream profile names are limited to alphanumerical characters. 5.50.2:L10 Recordings made with firmware earlier than 5.20 will not be readable on the SD Card from firmware 5.40 and onward. Backup important recordings and reformat the SD Card after the firmware upgrade. 5.50.2:L11 Check and repair is only available if the file system is ext4. 5.50.2:L12 The AXIS Media Control client may stop displaying the H.264 video stream after the PC has been locked. 5.50.2:L13 Live view does not work with QuickTime player using default settings. Workaround: Disable Direct3D acceleration in Quicktime. 5.50.2:L14 When using an action rule results in short recordings, it is recommended to extend post-event time. 5.50.2:L15 To avoid corrupt recordings, it is recommended to unmount the SD Card before ejecting it. 5.50.2:L16 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. 5.50.2:L17 It's not recommended to downgrade to previous firmware when having HTTPS enabled. 5.50.2:L18 Video overlay text size is a global setting and can not be set for each stream profile. 5.50.2:L19 If text overlay is more than 460 characters long, no text will be displayed 5.50.2:L20 Private keys need to be in a PKCS#1 format in order to function. 5.50.2:L21 For the low contrast scenes, false positives or negatives may occur since there is no enough information for the Tampering alarm. 5.50.2:L22 If downgrading to previous firmware version, a factory default is recommended after performing the downgrade. 5.50.2:L23 For network share passwords, the character comma (,) is not allowed. 5.50.2:L24 Not possible to view live or recorded video in Internet Explorer 10 Modern UI in Microsoft Windows 8. 5.50.2:L25 Unclear error message when uploading audio clip with already existing name. 5.50.2:L26 Occasionally, G711 audio can lag when using Java applet. Supported AXIS VAPIX API Image Resolutions for AXIS Q1921/-E ============================================================ Resolution Exceptions ========== ========== 768x576 720x576 640x512 640x480 480x360 384x288 320x256 320x240 240x180 176x144 160x128 160x120 704x576 1) 704x480 1) 704x288 1) 704x240 1) 352x288 1) 352x240 1) 240x135 1) 192x144 1) 176x120 1) 80x60 1) 1) Not visible in web user interface