                 FIRMWARE RELEASE NOTES
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Products covered: AXIS 2411 Video Server

Release date: 2003-10-28

Release type: Production

Firmware version: 3.10

File name: 2411_310.bin

Previous release:  3.04

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UPGRADE INSTRUCTIONS
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1.  Ensure that active applications (e.g. continuous video transmission 
    from the AXIS Video Server) are disabled prior to initiating the 
    upgrade.

2.  You must be at the command prompt and in the directory that 
    contains the upgrade file.
    Example: C:\Axis\2411\3_10>

3.  From the command prompt, open an FTP connection to the unit you 
    wish to upgrade. (Do not use Windows-based FTP-programs for this 
    purpose - use only command line FTP programs!)

4.  Log in as root. The default password for the root user is "pass", 
    unless this has been changed by the user. You must be logged in 
    as the root user to upgrade the unit.

5.  Change to binary transfer mode by typing "bin" and press enter.

6.  Type "hash" and press enter. (This will allow you to see how the 
    upgrade progresses)

7.  Type the command "put XXX.bin flash" where XXX.bin is the name 
    of the upgrade file you downloaded (and maybe decompressed) from 
    our site. This file is typically named 2411_310.bin or AXIS2411.bin. 

8.  Wait for the flash load to complete which may take 1-10 minutes.
   
9.  After the upgrade has completed, the unit will automatically restart 
    and show a steady green on the Power and Status LED:s and flashing 
    green on the Network LED. 


RELEASE 3.10
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New in 3.10:
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3.10:1	Introduction of ping reserved buffer size requirement for arp/ping 
	IP address. This means different commands when manually configuring 
	the IP address.

	On a Windows computer, arp/ping IP address setting is performed as 
	follows:
	
	1. From the DOS prompt:

	arp -s 192.168.0.150 00-40-8c-18-16-f0

	2. ping -t -l 408 192.168.0.150  
	3. Restart the video server and wait for a reply to ping

	
	On a Unix computer, arp/ping IP address setting is performed as 
	follows:
	
	1. arp -s 192.168.0.150 00:40:8c:18:16:f0
	2. ping -s 408 192.168.0.150
	3. Restart the video server and wait for a reply to ping

3.10:2  Implementation of new image resolution, 2CIF (704x240 - NTSC or 
        704x288 - PAL). 2CIF has same number of lines as CIF, but twice 
        the number of pixels per line. The image is re-scaled to 4CIF 
        in the viewer, which eliminates interlace problems, but reduces 
        image quality when compared to 4CIF.  

3.10:3  After a flash upgrade using flash_all, the BOOTPEnabled parameter 
	is as of now restored to the value configured before the upgrade.

3.10:4  The text in the picture is extended to allow characters between 
	ASCII 32 and ASCII 255.


Corrections in 3.10 since 3.04
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3.10:5  The FTP server deamon (sftpd) now opens the back channel data 
	connection on port 20 instead of on a random port.

3.10:6  If the flash upgrade procedure was aborted while erasing the 
       	flash, the programming was never completed. This problem is 
	corrected now.

3.10:7  The mail client complies with the RFC, regarding bare LF. Some 
       	servers, such as qmail, were rejecting the mails generated by the 
       	client.

3.10:8  Corrected resolution values available when using HTTP-API commands 
	to access the video stream. QCIF, NTSC is now available at 176X112 
	and 176X120 resolutions.

3.10:9  IP address change notification on restart is now only sent 
	if the IP address is changed.

3.10:10 Corrected issue with failing of IP address change notification 
	by using SMTP server's DNS name in the situation when altering 
	from static IP address to DHCP assigned IP address.

3.10:11 Specifying SMTP and DNS servers in the web pages no longer causes 
	the product's network interface to restart.

3.10:12 The HTTP-API command http://IP/axis-cgi/mjpg/video.cgi?camera=2 
	does no longer causes the video stream to stop.


Known limitations:
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L1. The text overlay will be distorted in 2CIF due to the fact that every 
    other line in the image is removed and re-scaled.