Release notes: Ava cameras 3.6.5 beta
Last modified: Tuesday April 27, 2021.
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About this release
(back to top)This software forms part of the Ava cameras releases.
| Release label | Release date | Software build number |
|---|---|---|
| Ava cameras software version 3.6.5 (Released to the | April 27, 2021 | Ava cameras:3_6_210422_12855 |
What's new
(back to top)This release includes the new features for the on-board camera software for Ava cameras. See Cameras for Alta Video for more information about the Ava Security range of cameras.
New features for your Ava cameras are typically configured from Ava Aware, and are therefore documented in the Ava Aware release notes.
See: Release notes: Alta Video 7.8.1 beta for more details.
Resolved issues
(back to top)These issues have been resolved:
| Reference | Resolution | Resolved in |
|---|---|---|
| Ava—418 | A vulnerability has been resolved in Ava cameras. | Ava cameras 3.6.5 |
| — | General stability improvements have been made to the Ava cameras. | Ava cameras 3.6.4 |
| 8693 | An issue where connections might not be correctly ended, leading to memory exhaustion and the camera restarting has been resolved. | Ava cameras 3.6.4 |
| 8687 | An issue where Alarms from Ava cameras did not correctly trigger Webhooks has been resolved. | Ava cameras 3.6.3 |
| Ava—416 | A vulnerability has been resolved in Ava cameras. | Ava cameras 3.6.2 |
| — | General improvements have been made to the automatic focusing, exposure, and white-balance algorithms for the Ava cameras. | Ava cameras 3.6.2 |
| Ava—414 | A vulnerability has been resolved in Ava cameras. | Ava cameras 3.6.1 |
| 8547 | An issue where, in some rare circumstances when using Ava cameras 3.6.0, and the filesystem needed repairing, Ava cloud-native cameras would not record new video has been resolved. | Ava cameras 3.6.1 |
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 these releases.
These software versions have been extensively tested on the Microsoft Windows 10 operating system, using the Chrome and Microsoft Edge browsers.
| Reference | Issue |
|---|---|
| 7983 | Issue: When configuring webhooks from Ava cloud-native cameras, the $url value is not being included in the webhook. |
| 6242 | Issue: When attempting to view live or playback video recorded from Ava cloud-native cameras, the playback sometimes stutters and does not progress smoothly. |
| 5253 | Issue: The storing of audio from the Ava cameras microphone arrays is enabled by default. Workaround: You can disable the recording and storing of audio for the Ava camera and from the Ava Aware user interfaces. |
| 2151 | Issue: If you manually change the IP address of your Dome camera, you are not given any warnings that this will break contact with the camera, and you are not redirected to the new address. Workaround: After changing the IP address of your camera, manually browse to the new IP address after the camera has rebooted. |
