Release Notes for ESM

v6.6.8 September 2017

Bug Fixes and Improvements:

• Moved the configuration of smtp settings for reports to Global Devices under the Administration Devices panel.
• Modified LPR search to allow more results and the ability to specify times in the search criteria.
• Fixed a problem with Arecont cameras using the legacy drivers.
• Removed unnecessary reports and merged some information into existing reports.
• Included properties of ONVIF cameras in current reports.
• Added ability to convert from a legacy driver to ONVIF and vice versa.
• The audio volume control is now displayed in playback/library when an audio stream is present.
• When going to full screen from Matrix, the stream wasn't being re-negotiated to get a better resolution.
• The selected ptz mode is now persisted to browser storage.
• Added ability to rename groups.
• ONVIF cameras are now added to the current user's group and any groups that have Devices Edit and Groups Edit privileges.
• Drag/drop of the camera nodes in Devices panel is now persisted correctly.
• Removed the Reset Archive Server to default menu item.
• Fixed failure of linking Archive servers that are on Universal Coordinated Time (and others with inconsistent display names).

v6.6.7 May 2017

Bug Fixes and Improvements:

• Enhanced UI for ONVIF cameras to show MAC Address
• Fixed ONVIF camera not being displayed in the Parent Map Placement tab
• Updated searching for LPR reads
• Updated Recording Control Service to minimize event log errors
• Restored Bosch/Bosch Encoder implementation
• Added RTSP option for Sony Gen3 cameras

v6.6.6 March 2017

Bug Fixes and Improvements:

• Added camera name to email body for LPR events
• Last Locked Out field no longer displays the date if user isn't locked out
• Added build date and version to settings page
• Audio volume wasn't getting set on FBGST

v6.6.5 March 2017

• Fixed issue with calendar appointments on the default schedules stopping on February 23rd 2017.
• Mobile viewing wasn't displaying streams correctly when they weren't proxied.
• Authentication tokens weren't generated correctly in some cases.
• Legacy library items from deleted remote servers could not be deleted.

v6.6.4 February 2017

Bug Fixes and Improvements:

• Multi domain Active Directory support
• Modified services to allow for start up in a timely manner
• Extended the timeout on site service to allow for exporting larger amounts of video
• Fixed issue with thumbnails not displaying properly due to timezone changes
• Fixed a memory leak in the capture engine
• Added Stats for Nerds to FBGST
• Fixed token expiration causing timed cycle to fail
• Fixed time cycle crash in IE with FBGST 1.4.3+
• Fixed legacy library items not being available

v6.6.3 January 2017

Improvements:

• Added rtsph and rtspt options to Generic RTSP driver.

Note: If the generic rtsp driver was tunnelled over http before it should use the rtsph protocol now.

v6.6.2 November 30, 2016

Bug Fixes and Improvements

• Windows Server 2016 support
• Resolved issue with adjusting volume when playing back video
• Resolutions in FBGST now match what are displayed when using EMP
• Resolved issue causing incorrect stream resolution to be selected when changing live view player dimensions
• Zip files produced from mass export can now be opened when greater than 4 GB.

Known Issues

• .NET 3.5 has to be installed on Windows Server 2016 prior to installing ESM
• OS X users must now open exported .zip files with The Unarchiver 

v6.6.1 November 17, 2016

Bug Fixes and Improvements

• Resizing FBGST player now selects appropriately sized stream
• Added warning when recording streams with unsupported audio codec
• Added link to camera configuration page
• Fixed bug where evidence/zip files could not be opened on a Mac
• Corrected issue causing capture engine to not record G711 audio codec
• Corrected issue causing capture engine to be not be notified of stream resolution changes
• Fix video player to prevent audio controls from affecting multiple videos
• Corrected recovery of ONVIF cameras
• Corrected issue deleting ONVIF cameras with associations
• When adding a stream to an ONVIF camera it is now viewable by default
• Fixed timeout problem with ONVIF streams
• Removed deprecated I/O systems

Known Issues

• Occasionally when deleting an ONVIF camera, it doesn't get removed from the tree. Refreshing the page will correct this.

v6.6.0 October 21, 2016

New Features and Improvements

• ONVIF Profile S camera support
• ONVIF camera discovery
• Updated pre-requisite installer to SQL Server 2014

Bug Fixes

• Cameras names containing characters that are not valid in filenames now work in playlists
• Fixed pass through authentication for mobile
• Disabled and unauthorized cameras are no longer displayed in layouts
• Fixed bug which could cause camera status report to be unavailable
• Fixed errors that could occur when deleting library items

v6.4.14 April 11, 2017

Bug Fixes and Improvements

• Added support for SSL login page
• Enabled digital signature support for older operating systems

v6.4.13 October 19, 2016

Bug Fixes and Improvements

• Improved motion detection handling of continuous motion events across minutes 

v6.4.12 August 8, 2016

Improved Camera Support

• Updated driver for Pelco NET5400-series encoders.

v6.4.11 June 30, 2016 

Bug Fixes and Improvements:

• Fixed issue when accessing certain live camera streams in low-bandwidth mode.

v6.4.10 June 3, 2016

Bug Fixes and Improvements:

• Added debug information for FBGST
• Fixed admin reporting page memory leak
• Added clean up process for temporary video export files
• Removed unnecessary log statements from capture process
• Updated timestamp server for EMP and ESM installers

New Camera Support:

• Axis P5635-E
• Axis A8004
• Vivotek IB836B-HT

Improved Camera Support:

• Corrected invalid resolution (342x240) for Axis Q7406
• Updated Axis M3203 resolutions
• Corrected Sony gen 3 camera codec configuration

v6.4.9 April 18, 2016

Bug Fixes and Improvements:

• Fixed issue with camera default motion detection lines getting created as 1px/1px squares.
• Re-issued code signing certificate for EMP 
• Re-issued code signing certificate for ESM installer
• Disabled server volume deletion if cameras are assigned to it.
• LPR records now getting cleaned up if associated camera has been removed.

New Camera Support:

• Arecont AV2455DNF
• Axis M1124
• Axis M1125
• Axis M7011
• Axis Q6045-E MK II
• Hikvision DS-2DE7184-AE
• Pelco IMP221-1RS
• Vivotek IB8168
• Vivotek IB8367-T

Improved Camera Support:

• Enabled LPR for Vivotek IP816A
• Enabled PTZ for Axis P1347
• Enabled PTZ for Axis P7216
• Enabled ELPR for Axis Q1765
• Updated resolutions for Axis M3024

v6.4.8 March 23, 2016

Bug Fixes and Improvements:

• Disk cleanup process speed-up by filtering only cameras for the current server/server volume
• Restart archive recording if ASF file duration is invalid

v6.4.7 March 11, 2016

Bug Fixes and Improvements:

• Fixed timezone issue when displaying thumbnail video view
• Preventing error from being logged on start up of video player

New Camera Support:

• Axis Q3709-PVE
• Samsung SND-5084
• Samsung SND-6084
• Samsung SNP-5321

Improved Camera Support:

• Axis M3024
• Axis M3026
• Vivotek IP816A

v6.4.6 March 1, 2016

v6.4.5 February 12, 2016

• Fixed issue with displaying archives in the correct timezone
• Fixed issue with creating dashboard reporting charts
• Fixed issue which caused CPU to spike on remote tier servers
• Fixed audio on Arecont cameras
• Fixed timeout which occurred while playing back more than 10 minutes of video
• Fixed display of timestamp in live view using FBGST
• Removed configuration of FTP events for Axis cameras
• Removed LPR cameras from tree in matrix view
• Fixed issue where users without Default permission could not log into Admin
• Removed LPR Admin privilege since it wasn't being used

• Panasonic WVSFR311
• Panasonic WVSFR531
• Panasonic WVSFN531
• Arecont AV12176DN
• Hikvision DS-2CD2632F-I

• Axis 7216 encoder