Release notes: Ava video security systems 4.7.3 beta
Last modified: Monday April 04, 2022.
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
Installing this release will upgrade Alta Video and Alta Video video management systems, and, if needed to maintain feature compatibility, any Avigilon Ava cameras associated with your deployment.
| Release label | Release date | Software build number |
|---|---|---|
| Alta Video/Alta Video software version 4.7.3 | Monday April 04, 2022 | Alta Video: 4_7_220404_13164 |
| Avigilon Ava cameras/Avigilon Ava cloud-native camera software version 4.7.3 | Monday April 04, 2022 | Avigilon Ava cameras: 4_7_220401_16121 |
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: |
|---|---|---|
| View your license usage in the Alta Video user interface | You can now see a summary of the Avigilon Alta licenses being used by your Alta Video deployment. | 4.7.3 |
| Improvements to the Add speakers workflow | The process to add speakers now includes the ability to associate other cameras in the vicinity with the added speaker. | 4.7.3 |
| Make audio announcements | For suitable Onvif-compliant cameras with inbuilt or connected speakers, you can now make audio announcements from Alta Video Cloud. This is an early release feature for evaluation and testing only. See: | 4.7.0 |
| Update to domains used for Alta Cloud Storage | When using Alta Cloud Storage, Avigilon Alta now use subdomains within .aware.avasecurity.com | 4.7.0 |
| Updated permissions for Access Control | The permissions for Access Control have been updated. In addition, following customer feedback, some permissions and roles have been renamed. | 4.7.0 |
| Avigilon Ava camera bandwidth diagnostics | You can now run connectivity tests for your Avigilon Ava cameras. | 4.7.0 |
Resolved issues
(back to top)These issues have been resolved in this release:
| Reference | Resolution | Resolved in version: |
|---|---|---|
| Ava—627 |
A vulnerability has been resolved in Alta Video.
See:
| 4.7.3 |
| 12155 | An issue where the Alta Video previously failed to delete the expected files, but no important files were erroneously removed. | 4.7.3 |
| 11992 | An issue on systems with sensors, where users with Operator permissions to only view Video view or Map view could not see sensor values has been resolved. | 4.7.3 |
| 11990 | An issue where Cloud Connectors might lose contact with Alta Cloud has been resolved. | 4.7.3 |
| 11735 | An issue where searching for license plates over a short timeframe found the relevant plate, but searching over a longer time plate did not has been resolved | 4.7.3 |
| 11734 | An issue where you could not delete recordings older than a selected number of days has been resolved | 4.7.3 |
| 11592 | An issue where migrating an Alta Cloud Connector to an Alta Cloud Connector might fail due to too many system alarms has been resolved. | 4.7.3 |
| 11202 | An issue where Counts were not correctly set, and displayed a spinner has been resolved. | 4.7.3 |
| 10044 | An issue where PTZ did not function correctly for cameras added into Alta Video in passive mode has been resolved. | 4.7.3 |
| Ava—622 |
A vulnerability has been resolved in Alta Video.
See:
| 4.7.2 |
| 11989 | An issue where audio announcements did not work with devices from some manufacturers has been improved in this release. | 4.7.2 |
| 11832 | An issue where, in some rare circumstances, an Alta Cloud Connector failed to be upgraded during a system update to Alta Video 4.7.0 has been resolved. | 4.7.1 |
| 11476 | An issue where, when you viewed the counts across the tools within Alta Video, you occasionally saw spinners, or that the Counts for newly added cameras were slow to propagate has been resolved. | 4.7.0 |
| 11455 | An issue where, in some circumstances, deployments that included Alta Cloud Connectors occasionally showed an empty Alarms pane when viewing an alarm has been resolved. | 4.7.0 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 12259 | Issue: When adding your first camera that has an integrated or connected speaker in the Workaround: Refresh the page to force the | Alta Video |
| 11819 | Issue: Occasionally, when editing the Network interface settings on your Alta Cloud Connector or Alta Cloud Connector, you might see an error. Workaround: If you see this error, refresh the page. | Alta Video |
| 11515 | Issue: When you edit any of the counts, for example, to add a new camera to an existing counts area, when you save the changes, the counts are briefly set to 0, before displaying the correct counts total. | Alta Video |
| 11454 | Issue: When using an External Viewer, if you don't display the streams for 24 hours or more, when you again try to display the viewer, you are prompted for a new one-time password. This could be due to the computer being shut down, or the browser being closed. | Alta Video |
| 11168 | Issue: If you leave the Alta Video user interface in the background while Alta Video upgrades, when you return to the interface, the icons are missing. | Alta Video |
| 10410 | Issue: When you export video that includes footage that switches from one resolution to another, there is a small gap between the sections of video. | Alta Video |
| 10087 | Issue: When you apply a maximum streaming quality to cameras connected to an Ava Cloud Connector, the setting is ignored, and the maximum available resolution is used. | Alta Video |
| 9752 | Issue: When you attempt to download the Audit log files, you can successfully download All audit logs, but if you attempt to download Recent files or Older than files, it shows as Failed. | Alta Video |
| 9327 | Issue: If you follow a link to an Aware 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 Aware Cloud deployment, again follow the alarm link to view details of the alarm. | Alta Video Cloud |
| 9165 | Issue: If you export video and audio files, or view those files from an external link created from your Aware deployment, audio snippets might not be synchronized with the video of the event. | 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 Aware Cloud to configure webhooks from Ava Cloud 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 Aware 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 Ava Cloud 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 Aware is ignored, and the stream uses the rotation settings from the camera. See:
| Alta Video |
| 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. See:
| Avigilon Ava cameras |
| 2151 | Issue: If you manually change the IP address of your 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 Aware video management system, these incompatibilities might impact the accuracy of the Ava analytics. | Alta Video |
