Release notes: Ava video security systems 4.2.1 beta
Last modified: Monday September 13, 2021.
Learn about new features, fixes and any issues found in testing for the Alta video security systems
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About this release
(back to top)This Ava video security system release includes software for the:
- Alta Video and Alta Video video management systems
- Avigilon Ava cameras and Avigilon Ava cloud-native cameras
| Release label | Release date | Software build number |
|---|---|---|
| Alta Video/Alta Video software version 4.2.1 | Thursday September 09, 2021. | Alta Video: 4_2_210909_11325 |
| Avigilon Ava cameras/Avigilon Ava cloud-native camera software version 4.2.1 | Thursday September 09, 2021. | Avigilon Ava cameras: 4_2_210909_14233 |
These software packages have been released to the
What's new
(back to top)In this release, Alta Video provides the following features:
| Feature | Description | Added in version: |
|---|---|---|
| Enable Single sign-on from ADFS | In addition to the existing compatible federated identity providers that work with Alta Video Cloud, you can now use Active Directory Federated Services (ADFS) as your provider. See: | 4.2.0 |
| Cloud storage of video data | Alta Video now provides you with the ability to backup your video data from your Avigilon Ava cloud-native cameras and your Alta Cloud Connectors to the Alta Cloud. See: | 4.2.0 |
| Cloud connectivity status | The Cloud Connector local user interface now reports its connection status. | 4.2.0 |
| External video wall | For situations where you want to display views from your cameras, for example on a monitor at the entrance to your store or office, you can now configure a video view, and then point a browser from another device to the resulting URL to see that view. See: | 4.2.0 |
| Draw wall locations in Map view | When configuring Map view, define the locations of walls on the maps. | 4.2.0 |
| Bulk acknowledgment of Alarms | You can now acknowledge multiple alarms at a time. | 4.2.0 |
Resolved issues
(back to top)These issues have been resolved in this release:
| Reference | Resolution | Resolved in version: |
|---|---|---|
| Ava-540 | A vulnerability has been resolved in Alta Video. | 4.2.1 |
| 10159 | An issue where, if you configured a schedule for the cloud storage backup, it did not back up your video data has been resolved. | 4.2.1 |
| 10138 | An issue where external links did not show video backed up to the cloud if the camera was not contactable has been resolved. | 4.2.1 |
| 10130 | An issue where, after defining the position of walls in Map view, you might see incorrectly cropped areas at the corners of the view has been resolved. | 4.2.1 |
| 10114 | An issue where, in some rare circumstances, some cameras connected to Alta Cloud Connectors might stop recording has been resolved. | 4.2.1 |
| 10058 | An issue where the backup status was not shown for any cameras connected to an Alta Cloud Connector has been resolved. | 4.2.1 |
| Ava-537 | A vulnerability has been resolved in Alta Video. | 4.2.0 |
| 9830 | An issue where, after logging into your Alta Cloud Connector using the local user account, the user interface took some time to update with information relating to your system has been resolved. | 4.2.0 |
| 9773 | An issue where, if you changed the | 4.2.0 |
| 9744 | An issue where, if you attempted to download the diagnostic information from a Cloud Connector, the user interface log files downloaded, but the back end information showed | 4.2.0 |
| 9471 | An issue where the quality of the audio was sub-optimal when you listened back from an audio alarm has been resolved. | 4.2.0 |
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 these software packages.
| Reference | Issue | Software |
|---|---|---|
| 10197 | Issue: If you configure a scheduled backup, the system uses the GMT timezone, so your backed up files might appear to have been made at an incorrect time. | Alta Video |
| 10140, 9715 | Issue: When setting up Webhooks to be used as a rule action, you cannot currently use the | Alta Video |
| 10138 | Issue: If an Avigilon Ava cloud-native camera is not contactable, any external links will not work, even if the video data has been backed up to the Alta Cloud. | Alta Video |
| 10130 | Issue: In Map view, with some camera icon locations and wall positions, the field of view cones might overflow into adjacent areas. | Alta Video |
| 10120 | Issue: When attempting to export video where some of the data has been backed up to Alta Cloud, but where the selected end time is after the time that the backup stopped, the export halts at the end of the backed up data, and never completes. | Alta Video |
| 10106 | Issue: In some circumstances, you cannot download Counts information from Alta Video Cloud. | Alta Video |
| 10087 | Issue: When you apply a maximum streaming quality to cameras connected to an Alta Cloud Connector, the setting is ignored, and the maximum available resolution is used. | Alta Video |
| 10058 | Issue: When you configure cloud backups for a configuration profile, selecting Workaround: From Video view, enable the | Alta Video |
| 10049 | Issue: When you have configured an external viewer, the viewer stops working after Alta Video upgrades. Workaround: After the upgrade has completed, re-generate the one-time password, and re- enter it into your external viewer. | Alta Video |
| 9800 | Issue: If you attempt to temporarily disable a System rule, the settings are not correctly applied, and the rule continues to generate notifications when triggered. | Alta Video |
| 9752 | Issue: When you attempt to download the Audit log files, you can successfully download | Alta Video |
| 9327 | Issue: If you follow a link to an Alta Video Cloud alarm, if you need to log in using SSO, you are taken to the Dashboard, rather than to the Alarms page. Workaround: Once you have logged into your Alta Video Cloud deployment, again follow the alarm link to view details of the alarm. | Alta Video Cloud |
| 9117, 9165 | Issue: If you export video and audio files, or view those files from an external link created from your Alta Video deployment, audio snippets might not be synchronized with the video of the event. | Alta Video |
| 8861 | Issue: If you grant user access via the Deployment Management Portal (DMP) for a defined period of time, at the end of that time, access is denied as expected, but the notification is not updated to show the change of state. Workaround: Refreshing the browser shows the correct access. | Alta Video |
| 8512 | Issue: In some circumstances, you might not see the alarm bars for ended alarms in the timeline. | Alta Video |
| 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. | Alta Video |
| 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. | Avigilon Ava cloud-native cameras |
| 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. | Alta Video |
| 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. | Alta Video |
| 6242 | Issue: When attempting to view live or playback video recorded from Avigilon Ava cloud-native cameras, the playback sometimes stutters and does not progress smoothly. | Avigilon Ava cameras |
| 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. | Alta Video |
| 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. | Alta Video |
| 5253 | Issue: The storing of audio from the Avigilon Ava cameras microphone arrays is enabled by default. Workaround: You can disable the recording and storing of audio for the Avigilon Ava camera and from the Alta Video user interfaces. | Avigilon Ava cameras |
| 2151 | Issue: If you manually change the IP address of your Avigilon Ava 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. | Avigilon Ava cameras |
| General | Issue: If third-party cameras do not support the multiple streams or the GOP profiles required by the Alta Video video management system, these incompatibilities might impact the accuracy of the Avigilon Alta analytics. | Alta Video |
