This firmware is now available. Please visit the product's support page on www.axis.com for the download, full release notes and installation instructions.
New Features
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5.51.1:F01
Added support for the AXIS Q7920 Chassis.
5.50.2:F01
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:F02
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:F03
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:F04
ONVIF Profile S conformance. The ONVIF Profile S replaces the ONVIF Version
1.02.
5.50.2: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.
5.50.2:F06
Email/SSL Recipient, ability for the camera to connect to common email services.
The camera includes predefined profiles for example, Gmail and Hotmail.
5.50.2:F07
HTTPS Recipient, systems using HTTP notifications from the camera can now do
this in a secure way over HTTPS.
5.50.2: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.
5.50.2:F09
Live Stream Access Detection, it is now possible to notify people that someone
is actively monitoring a camera.
5.50.2:F10
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:F11
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:F12
Improved Constant Bitrate Control, the Constant Bit Rate (CBR) will now adjust
to target bit rate quicker.
5.50.2:F13
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:F14
Edge storage with support for CIFS/SMB (Microsoft Network share).
Corrections in 5.50.2 since 5.40.7
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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
It is possible to add IP addresses to the IP filter list in the web interface.
5.50.2:C05
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:C06
It is now possible to use HTTPS and port forwarding.
5.50.2:C07
It is no longer necessary to restart the camera after configuring default router
parameter via VAPIX.
5.50.2:C08
Configuration of time zone for Australia appears correctly in the web interface.
5.50.2:C09
Double & (&&) are no longer present in HTTP notifications. The Action rule gives
a valid URI.
5.50.2:C10
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: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
Corrected an issue that could block PTZ control completely which required a
reboot of the camera to make it possible to control it again.
5.50.2:C14
The error condition encountered when creating two similar action rules (or
by a copied action rule) has been fixed.
5.50.2:C15
Network share size will now be displayed as GB if less than TB in the web
interface.
5.50.2:C16
Pelco drivers are now pre-loaded for using PT motors or PTZ camera through
RS485.
5.50.2:C17
Setting Always multicast TTL (Time To Live) to '0' is now working as expected.
5.50.2:C18
Fixed behavior for serial cgi “writestring=”.
5.50.2:C19
Use of IPs starting with 169.154.x.x is now properly reserved for link-local
addresses.
5.50.2:C20
The #e modifier now displays proper event names.
5.50.2:C21
The Edge Storage disc utilization has been improved, this will also result in
increased video retention time especially for larger discs.
5.50.2:C22
The default compression value has been changed, it is tuned more effectively to
provide more flexibility for video applications in a wide variety of network
environments.
To revert to old setting, configure the camera to use compression=26.
5.50.2:C23
Issue where incorrect multicast addresses were used, has been corrected.
5.50.2:C24
It is now possible to use 169.254.x.x as a static IP.
5.50.2:C25
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.
5.50.2:C26
Fixed an issue with the Axis Name Service and some router models.