Release notes: Ava Aware 3.6.6 beta
Last modified: Thursday May 13, 2021.
Learn about new features, fixes and any issues found in testing for the Ava Aware software.
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About this release
(back to top)The Ava Aware software provides the features for your Ava video security systems.
| Release label | Release date | Software build number |
|---|---|---|
| Ava Aware software version 3.6.6 (Released to the | May 13, 2021 | Ava Aware: 3_6_210512_10218 |
What's new
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Some new features rely on your Ava cameras software being in alignment with your Ava Aware software versions.
In this release, Ava Aware provides the following features:
| Feature | Description | Added in |
|---|---|---|
| Listen to audio alarm snippets from Ava Aware | For any audio alarm on your Ava Aware deployment, there are now several methods you can use to listen to the audio snippet. | Ava Aware 3.6.0 |
| Improved management of streaming users | Ava Aware now includes improved, more streamlined methods to add streaming users. See:
| Ava Aware 3.6.0 |
| Direct integration with Feenics access control systems | Ava Aware now directly integrates with your Feenics access control systems. | Ava Aware 3.6.0 |
| Improvements to Smart Path | Ava Security Smart Path is the real time communication technology used by Ava Aware and Ava Aware cloud for connections between your viewer and the Ava Cloud Connector or cameras. Now, the time taken for the video to be seen has been improved. | Ava Aware 3.6.0 |
| Improvements to audit logging | New information is now added to the audit logs, including: | Ava Aware 3.6.0 |
| Use User groups when configuring Rules | In addition to specifying individual users to be notified when a rule triggers, you can now also configure User groups to receive the notifications either by Pop-up, or by email. | Ava Aware 3.6.0 |
| New color options for vehicles in Rules and Search | When defining rules, or creating a search, you now have a new palette of vehicle colors from which to choose. | Ava Aware 3.6.0 |
| Ultrasonic alarm detection | You can now configure rules that trigger when an ultrasonic panic alarm is deployed in the vicinity of your Ava cameras. | Ava Aware 3.6.0 |
| Top cover off alarms for Ava Dome and Avigilon Ava 360 cameras | You can now configure rules to alert you if the top covers are removed from your Ava Dome or Avigilon Ava 360 cameras. | Ava Aware 3.6.0 |
| Video overlays for Ava cameras | You can now configure the video streams from Ava cameras to include overlay information, such as the camera name, the timestamp, or some custom text. | Ava Aware 3.6.0 |
| Area of interest for auto-exposure | For the Avigilon Ava 360 and Ava Dome cameras, you can now configure an area of interest for auto-exposure metering. | Ava Aware 3.6.0 |
| Automatic rotation of Ava camera video streams | For Ava Dome and wall-mounted Avigilon Ava 360 cameras, you can now configure auto-rotation to ensure the video stream is correctly oriented. Auto-rotation is not available for ceiling-mounted Avigilon Ava 360 cameras, or for ceiling-mounted Ava Dome cameras where the lens is close to pointing directly downwards. | Ava Aware 3.6.0 |
| Ava Aware user interface reports when DMP access is enabled | If you have granted access to your deployment from the Ava Security Deployment Management Platform (DMP), you are now notified in the Ava Aware To learn how to check, enable or disable DMP access, see: | Ava Aware 3.6.0 |
| Detections of unusual velocities | The Ava Aware anomaly detections have been updated to add Unusual velocity as a trigger. This beta feature from the 3.5 beta releases is now enabled by default. Unusual velocity anomalies look at both the direction and the speed of any motion. This velocity model requires sufficient existing data to compare any new motion against to determine whether the velocity is anomalous. Therefore, in low traffic areas, you might not see any detections due to the lack of existing data to compare against. | Ava Aware 3.6.0 |
Resolved issues
(back to top)These issues have been resolved in this release:
| Reference | Resolution | Resolved in |
|---|---|---|
| Ava—418 | A vulnerability has been resolved in Ava Aware. | Ava Aware 3.6.5 |
| — | General stability improvements have been made to Ava Aware. | Ava Aware 3.6.4 |
| 8687 | An issue where Alarms from Ava Aware did not correctly trigger Webhooks has been resolved. | Ava Aware 3.6.3 |
| 8176 | An issue where, in some circumstances in clustered deployments, Clips might have been deleted before their specified duration had expired has been resolved. | Ava Aware 3.6.3 |
| Ava—416 | A vulnerability has been resolved in Ava Aware. | Ava Aware 3.6.2 |
| 8634 | An issue where, in some rare circumstances when streaming video, a memory issue led to access to your deployment being intermittently lost has been resolved. | Ava Aware 3.6.2 |
| 8625 | An issue where, in some situations, Ava cameras would not record at the maximum resolution when configured to do so has been resolved. | Ava Aware 3.6.2 |
| 8545 | An issue where, prior to this release, Ava Aware would not connect to Openpath deployments if the Openpath username was used in multiple namespaces has been resolved. | Ava Aware 3.6.2 |
| 8356, 8504 | An issue where you could not set up RTSP streams from some third-party cameras has been resolved. | Ava Aware 3.6.2 |
| 8514 | An issue where, when listening to the audio snippets that accompanied alarms triggered by sound rules, the audio sounded noisy and clipped on Ava Aware cloud systems has been resolved. | Ava Aware 3.6.2 |
| 8499 | An issue where, in clustered systems, if a rule was defined that included a camera from another site, no pop up notifications were sent has been resolved. | Ava Aware 3.6.2 |
| 8489 | An issue where, for Ava Aware integrations with Feenics access control platforms, if you clicked on an Alarms event, you got errors shown while Ava Aware retrieved the event information has been resolved. | Ava Aware 3.6.2 |
| 7581 | An issue where Alarms were not correctly removed after the configured retention periods passed has been resolved. | Ava Aware 3.6.2 |
| 7135 | An issue where Ava cloud-native cameras were not pruning alarms when the associated video was removed has been resolved. | Ava Aware 3.6.2 |
| 6735 | An issue where thumbnails were not being generated for system alarms and 123 Counts rules for Ava cloud-native cameras has been resolved. | Ava Aware 3.6.2 |
| 8521 | An issue where, if you had several tools that had played video open in the Ava Aware user interface, when you then opened Map view the video was very slow to load has been resolved. | Ava Aware 3.6.1 |
| 8509 | An issue where, when you saved your Video view layout, the zoom settings for each camera pane was not consistently saved has been resolved. | Ava Aware 3.6.1 |
| 8478 | An issue where the Ava Aware user interface could randomly and erroneously show a | Ava Aware 3.6.1 |
| 7756 | An issue when connecting to an Access Control System after making a change (for example, updating a password), caused an | Ava Aware 3.6.1 |
| 7628 | An issue where, when using Ava Aware access control integrations on a clustered server group, attempting to add access control to a different node in the cluster failed, has been resolved. | Ava Aware 3.6.1 |
| 7837, 7887 | Some issues where it was possible to create audio rules for | Ava Aware 3.6.1 |
| Ava—410 | A vulnerability has been resolved in Ava Aware. | Ava Aware 3.6.0 |
Software releases might include minor bug fixes that are not listed in the Resolved issues table.
Known issues
(back to top)During testing, we have found the following issues in this release.
These software versions have been extensively tested on the Microsoft Windows 10 operating system, using the Chrome and Microsoft Edge browsers.
| Reference | Issue |
|---|---|
| 8512 | Issue: In some circumstances, you might not see the alarm bars for ended alarms in the timeline. |
| 8018 | Issue: In some circumstances on a clustered deployment, if you set up a line-crossing rule on one site, and enable it from another site, when the rule triggers and you acknowledge the alarm as False, the alarm is seen on the first site, but not on the site from where it was enabled. |
| 7983 | Issue: When using Ava Aware cloud to configure webhooks from Ava cloud-native cameras, the $url value is not being included in the webhook. |
| 7549 | Issue: When searching from the Video view timeline on Ava Aware cloud, when you click the forward or back 1 second icons, the video pauses and the bounding boxes disappear. |
| 6911 | Issue: If you set a dewarped panoramic view in Video view, and then move to another Aware tab, occasionally, when you return to Video view, the panoramic view resets to Globe view. |
| 6232 | Issue: When using the delete recordings function to delete all recordings including bookmarks, all the video and metadata are deleted, but the bookmark items themselves are not removed. |
| 5461 | Issue: When searching for Gender, the results returned from Pano cameras feature a higher than desirable level of false-positive responses. As more test clips are added to the training models, this level of false-positive will improve. |
| 5406 | Issue: When requesting an RTSP stream, any camera view rotation that has been configured in Ava Aware is ignored, and the stream uses the rotation settings from the camera. |
| General | Issue: If third-party cameras do not support the multiple streams or the GOP profiles required by the Ava Security Ava Aware video management system, these incompatibilities might impact the accuracy of the Ava Security analytics. |
