Release notes: Ava Aware 3.5.6 beta
Last modified: Wednesday April 14, 2021.
Learn about new features, fixes and any issues found in testing for the Alta Video software.
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About this release
(back to top)The Alta Video software provides the features for your Alta video security systems.
| Release label | Release date | Software build number |
|---|---|---|
| Alta Video software version 3.5.6 (Released to the | April 14, 2021 | Alta Video: 3_5_210413_09872 |
What's new
(back to top)In this release, Alta Video provides the following features:
| Feature | Description | Added in |
|---|---|---|
| Detections of unusual velocities | The Alta Video anomaly detections have been updated to add Unusual velocity as a trigger. | Alta Video 3.5.3 |
| Add RTSP cameras | You can now add a camera by specifying its RTSP URL. This provides a single stream to Alta Video. | Alta Video 3.5.0 |
| New Vehicle type detections | When creating Rules or configuring a Search for vehicles, you can now choose from See: | Alta Video 3.5.0 |
| Add ability to ignore a selected color in Rules and Search | You can now choose to ignore a color when setting up Rules and Search. This is useful, for example, if you want to exclude all staff that are wearing a uniform from your rules or searches. See: | Alta Video 3.5.0 |
| Ability to multi-select attributes in Rules and Search | You can now select more than one vehicle type, or multiple sound detection types when configuring Rules or Search. See: | Alta Video 3.5.0 |
| Alta Video API Explorer added | Use the API Explorer to provide information regarding API calls you can use when creating custom integrations between Alta Video and other systems. See: | Alta Video 3.5.0 |
| Audit logs | View the Alta Video Audit logs to see information about key system changes. | Alta Video 3.5.0 |
| Apply manual stream settings to multiple cameras | If you have several similar cameras that need to have manual streams configured, you can now apply those settings to multiple cameras. | Alta Video 3.5.0 |
| Counting rule improvements | For line-crossing count Rules, you can now trigger each time a predefined number of crossings occurs. To send an alert to notify the cleaners that 25 people have visited the restroom since it was last cleaned, set | Alta Video 3.5.0 |
| New layout option in Video view | When setting your preferred Video view, you can now use a single pane (1x1) layout. | Alta Video 3.5.0 |
| Improvements to Avigilon Ava camera integration | From Alta Video and from the Avigilon Ava camera user interfaces, you can now rotate the video from the Avigilon Ava camera in 90° steps. | Alta Video 3.5.0 |
Resolved issues
(back to top)These issues have been resolved in this release:
| Reference | Resolution | Resolved in |
|---|---|---|
| Ava—407 | A vulnerability has been resolved in Alta Video. | Alta Video 3.5.4 |
| 8274 | An issue where, with Alta Video access control integrations, you had to refresh the browser page when adding or editing an access control system in Alta Video has been resolved. | Alta Video 3.5.4 |
| 8138 | An issue where the disks could fill up, and old data was not being correctly pruned has been resolved. | Alta Video 3.5.2 |
| 8112, 8079 | Some issues with the connections between Alta Video and Openpath have been resolved. | Alta Video 3.5.2 |
| 8110 | An issue where, in some situations, media traveling between your Alta Cloud Connector and your browser could be routed via the gateway instead of being kept on the local network as been resolved. | Alta Video 3.5.2 |
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 |
|---|---|
| 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 Alta Video Cloud to configure webhooks from Avigilon Ava cloud-native cameras, the $url value is not being included in the webhook. |
| 7549 | Issue: When searching from the Video view timeline on Alta Video Cloud, when you click the forward or back 1 second icons, the video pauses and the bounding boxes disappear. |
| 7135 | Issue: For Avigilon Ava cloud-native cameras, alarms and anomalies might remain in the list on the Alarms page after the corresponding video has been deleted. |
| 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 Alta Video is ignored, and the stream uses the rotation settings from the camera. See: |
| General | Issue: If third-party cameras do not support the multiple streams or the GOP profiles required by the Avigilon Alta Alta Video video management system, these incompatibilities might impact the accuracy of the Avigilon Alta analytics. |
