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10/29/2024 - Release Notes - DW Spectrum Update 6.0.0.39503

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DW Technical Bulletin

To:  DW® Customers

Date:  October 29, 2024

Re:  DW Spectrum 6.0.0.39503 Release Notes

 

DW Spectrum IPVMS Software Update 6.0.0.39503

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Affected Software:  DW Spectrum IPVMS

New Software Version:  DW Spectrum 6.0.0.39503

Previous Software Version:  DW Spectrum 5.1.5.39242

Release Date: October 29, 2024

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In-Client Upgrade Information

  • Build Number: 39503
  • Password: 5tzxht

 

Important Notes

  • DW Witness not supported (DW Witness update in development)
  • Release notes show changes relative to the latest official release (5.1.5.39242)
  • Support for Microsoft Windows 8.1 and Microsoft Windows Server 2012 is discontinued.
  • Support for Ubuntu 18.04 will be discontinued in the next major release (6.1).
  • Support for Raspberry Pi 3 will be discontinued in the next minor release (6.0.x).
  • Support for Raspberry OS 10 will be discontinued in the next major release (6.1).

 

New Features

  • Improved and redesigned user management with group-applied permissions:
    • User management UI design was significantly reworked and improved.
    • User rights system has been enhanced:
      • Assigning a single user or group unique permissions to selected cameras is now possible.
      • A user can be a member of multiple permission groups.
      • Groups can inherit permissions from other groups.
  • Enhanced LDAP Integration:
    • VMS continuously synchronizes users and groups with LDAP.
    • LDAP Groups can be imported to VMS as well as a user membership in those groups, and it is possible to configure permissions for those groups in VMS.
    • Deployed new LDAP Sync Issue Event and added support to Desktop Client.
  • A new user type (Temporary) is introduced:
    • Temporary Users can only use the Desktop Client / Web Admin but cannot use Cloud Portal.
    • Temporary Users are limited to Viewer Group Permissions and cannot access Secure APIs.
  • The ability to follow objects of interest with Camera Hotspots and Camera Linking is introduced.
  • NVidia hardware video decoding acceleration implemented on the Desktop Client running on Windows and Ubuntu.
  • Emails from VMS can now be sent through the Cloud SMTP Server, which facilitates SMTP Email setting a lot.

 

New Operating System Support

  • MacOS 14.0.
  • Raspberry Pi OS 11 (32-bit).
  • Raspberry Pi OS 12 on Raspberry Pi 3 and Raspberry Pi4 (32-bit) without support for native Raspberry cameras.

 

General Improvements

  • New calendar provides efficient navigation across large archives and timeframes.
  • WebRTC is greatly improved. More details will be provided in the separate API release notes.
  • DST Support is greatly improved.
  • JWT Tokens are supported. This should eliminate issues with the Cloud DB performance and logout.
  • Webpages and Integrations have been separated in the Main Menu.
  • Logs configuration and extraction functionality is greatly improved in the Desktop Client.
  • The look and feel of the Desktop Client is redesigned to match the modern design requirements and be ready to implement for future design changes.
  • SECURITY:
    • Bulk approval for Self-Signed certificates is enabled.
    • Administrators now cannot change certain advanced system settings through WebAdmin. Now all settings are available to the owner only.
    • Client-Server API communication is switched to a more secure protocol.
    • Trusted Man in the Middle (MITM) certificates are supported by the Desktop Client.
    • New user sessions are now logged in the Audit Trail.
  • User Manual on Linux opens in the internal browser window instead of the system default browser.
  • The Desktop Client Welcome screen can be configured to hide systems found through auto-discovery.
  • The background image size limitation within the Desktop Client is removed.
  • In-Client Browser (Webkit) has been updated.
  • The Desktop Client retains the last screenshot export settings as the default for future screenshot exports.
  • The Camera Settings Tab is optimized to lower the CPU load.
  • The Storage Management Dialog now provides automatically refreshed capacity data in place of a manual refresh process.
  • The "Email address is not set" notification is removed from the Desktop Client.
  • Added double-click option to select current user and system in the resource tree.
  • During video playback, the Desktop Client will rewind to the previous chunk upon a long-press of the “Previous Chunk” button or Hotkey.
  • Webpage titles can now be hidden in the Desktop Client.
  • Improved settings dialog for the SMTP email servers.
  • New prompt for Cloud connection after session expiration.
  • Revised dialog when decrypting archives prior to export.
  • Virtual Camera can now be added from the Server context menu.
  • The PTZ Control Guide within the Desktop Client was updated to describe new functionality, usage examples, and operational controls.
  • Added quick action buttons to rewind video or fast forward 10 seconds.
  • Added the ability to drag fisheye and PTZ cameras by their title and header.
  • The Desktop Client dialog for signing into web pages has been refined.
  • The dialog box to delete multiple or shared layouts now provides more information.
  • Analytic chunks (yellow) populate on the Timeline much faster.
  • The archive read/write operations have been optimized.
  • Improved resilience of Cloud Shared Layouts during network congestion or timeout.
  • The log file describing the 1-Click Update progress (update.log) can be downloaded in the Desktop Client or by using the API.
  • If a Server the license is activated on becomes offline the corresponding message within the Desktop Client shows up immediately.
  • Pause overlay was redesigned to let users see the video even if it is paused.
  • The new “Generate Event” permission is added to custom user groups on upgrade and is available to more permission Groups.
  • A generic Cloud URL is provided to relay Temporary User access links.
  • The Desktop Client menus have been updated to replace New (item) with Add (item).
  • In the Desktop Client, the filename for export is limited to 256 characters to avoid OS related issues.
  • LDAP import speed has improved.
  • Added tooltips for different logging levels at the “Log Management” table.

 

DW Device Support / Improvements / Fixes

  • Digital Watchdog Megapix Ai Edge plugin version was updated to 2.5.49.
  • Digital Watchdog mx9 analytics plugin failed on multichannel devices. Fixed.

 

Third-Party Device Support / Improvements / Fixes

  • Axis:
    • Axis C1310E devices would toggle between an online and offline state. Fixed.
    • Axis cameras experienced intermittent recording of an H.265 stream. Fixed.
    • Camera PTZ positions drifted on MacOS Clients when using an Axis T8311 joystick. Fixed.
    • The Axis T8311 joystick movement affected all PTZ capable cameras on the layout instead of the selected PTZ camera only. Fixed.
  • On Dahua NVR(X82B3A), not all NVR channels were properly discovered. Fixed.
  • Reduced the time required to authorize specific Hikvision cameras.
  • Reduced the time required to authorize specific Hikvision cameras.
  • Video archive from Hikvision DS-2CD3T56G2-4IS contained recording gaps when a camera clock was not in sync with the system clock or the “Keep Camera Time Settings” option was not selected. Fixed.
  • A Separate device was created for each channel of the Vivotek VS8801 encoder when manually added to a System. Fixed.
  • Allnet cameras are now supported.
  • Unauthorized error generated for an I/O module when the correct credentials were provided. Fixed.
  • Daylight Saving Time was not applied when forcing Server time on Bosch cameras. Fixed.

 

Analytics Improvements & Fixes

  • Vivotek:
    • Add support for new event types: Smart tracking Parking detection, Restricted zone detection.
    • Vivotek Deep Learning VCA is limited by the manufacturer to 5 rules of any type.
    • The Advanced Smart Tracking now incorporates zoom variables into the Region of Interest settings.
    • The Advanced Smart Tracking feature in the Desktop Client has been enhanced with an Exclusion Mask function.
  • Hikvision:
    • Hikvision cameras reported invalid object types. Fixed.
    • LPR worked incorrectly on HIKVISION cameras with the new version of LPR. FIxed.
  • On Axis cameras, subscriptions to multiple analytic events worked very slowly. Fixed.
  • Uniview analytics is enabled on Univiewtec cameras.

 

Bug Fixes

General Fixes

  • During a database restoration, the information was pushed to Servers that were no longer part of the system (i.e. unmerged), leading to potential Server misconfiguration. Fixed.
  • Server version 5.1 running on Ubuntu 22.04 failed to restart after being stopped with the SIGTERM ($kill PID) method. Fixed.
  • Server reported inaccurate SMB storage space to the Desktop Client and APIs. Fixed.
  • During restoration tasks, corrupted or damaged backup files reset the server settings. Fixed.
  • The installer process did not completely remove temporary user and group data. Fixed.
  • Raspberry Pi systems could become unstable or reboot after extended use. Fixed.
  • The session expiration dialog would not respond when using the Web Admin. Fixed.
  • Camera snapshots were missing in the "Event" tab if a Generic Event was triggered with "metadata":{"cameraRefs":[]} specified. Fixed.
  • In unstable network environments, Server did not release connections over the HTTP port, resulting in Web Admin connections being refused. Fixed.
  • In rare cases, a duration of archive periods could differ between main and backup storage. Fixed.
  • After restoring a camera archive and reindexing, low quality stream could be lost. Fixed.

 

Advanced Object Search Fixes

  • Filter settings shown in the Advanced Object Search dialog did not match the Object Search parameters displayed in the Desktop Client Notification Panel. Fixed.
  • The Advanced Object Search dialog of the Desktop Client remained in the foreground after a user selected Show on Layout. Fixed.

 

Desktop Client Fixes

  • The Desktop Client Welcome Screen sometimes did not show icons for Cloud-connected systems. Fixed.
  • The Desktop Client displayed an inaccurate message that "The latest version is already installed" when connecting to a down-revision server. Fixed.
  • The Desktop Client embedded browser did not accept non-Latin input. Fixed.
  • The Desktop Client did not display the certificate name on the General tab. Fixed.
  • The "synchronizedTime" value in the Desktop Client did not match the System time when the Client was without an Internet connection. Fixed.
  • The Desktop Client uninstallation process is improved to remove temporary folders and files.
  • Email alerts initiated from a Soft Trigger contained an internal user ID instead of the username. Fixed.
  • The Analytics object search function did not process enum attributes and substrings correctly on the Stub Analytics Plugin. Fixed.
  • The Desktop Client sent the incorrect password of newly added FTP storage while communicating with Servers if the password contained special symbols. Fixed.
  • The Desktop Client did not play back audio from Multicast UDP streams. Fixed.
  • The Desktop Client did not display the Hardware Acceleration icon on the video item where enabled. Fixed.
  • After clearing all notifications within the Desktop Client, the notification panel was empty rather than displaying the “No New Notifications” label. Fixed.
  • The Desktop Client was unable to merge two systems having trusted Man in the Middle (MITM) certificates. Fixed.
  • The “Additional Video Wall licenses required” warning in the Desktop Client was persistent and could not be dismissed. Fixed.
  • If trying to add an overlay to the exported video, the text on the preview did not match the text on the actual video. Fixed.
  • Desktop Client usernames that contained HTML style syntax (adminsomething) did cause the login process to freeze. Fixed.
  • The Bookmark Log displayed the user ID in the “Bookmark Creator” field instead of the username. Fixed.
  • Creating a zoom area on a local file video item within the playback window caused the Desktop Client to hang. Fixed.
  • The Desktop Client could not define an Analytic Search Area while playing the video in full-screen mode and moved the video item instead. Fixed.
  • The option to “Save Layout as Cloud” was displayed for local users. Fixed.
  • The Desktop Client displayed the incorrect icon for Servers detached from the System. Fixed.
  • Camera tours containing PTZ device positions with defined Stay Time values did not stay for the specified duration. Fixed.
  • The Desktop Client (Client Only) update did not work if Servers in the System were without an active Internet connection. Fixed.
  • Renaming a default PTZ position in the Desktop Client created an additional preset on the camera with the new name. Fixed.
  • The Popular Tag suggestions within the Bookmark dialog of the Desktop Client had an undesired alignment of the text. Fixed.
  • Video Wall misbehaved when configuring six screens at 150% scaling. Fixed.
  • The Desktop Client embedded browser did not display certain web pages. Fixed.
  • The Local Settings dialog box displaying notification types reset the sorting order on each opening. Fixed.
  • The In-Client update did not work on Ubuntu 22.04. Fixed.
  • The "Camera Offline" notification was displayed a single time when a camera was manually added. Fixed.
  • Object detection database created notifications with a future date that could not be deleted. Fixed.
  • 2FA: the client logged out from the cloud when trying to open it from the cloud. Fixed.
  • If the device list contained an NVR without licenses, analytic objects were not displayed with the "Cameras on Layout" filter. Fixed.
  • The Analytics object search function did not process enum attributes and substrings correctly on the Stub Analytics Plugin. Fixed.
  • The Desktop Client did not display the certificate name on the General tab. Fixed.
  • The Storage Analytics Dialog now provides automatically refreshed capacity data in place of a manual refresh process. Fixed.
  • The Client was logged out of the Cloud unexpectedly. Fixed.
  • The “Finish update" button was not displayed during a Server-only update, Fixed.
  • The Welcome Screen search function was not invoked by hotkey. Fixed.
  • The System Administration dialog box in the Desktop Clients displayed an Apply button on newly installed systems when no changes were unapplied. Fixed.
  • Disconnecting from Systems with unsaved (Camera or Server) changes produced an incorrect confirmation dialog. Fixed.
  • The Desktop Client displayed the Apply button in the Local Settings dialog as active for newly added systems even though there were no pending changes to apply. Fixed.
  • The Watermark Check function within the Desktop Client reported a false failure for files exported with the Add Info option selected. Fixed.
  • The Desktop Client on Windows displayed the video playback slider at the end of the seek bar when starting a video in the Advanced Object Search mode. Fixed.
  • Pre-recording did not work with rules set on the source camera. Fixed.
  • The Desktop Client could crash if trying to operate with a password protected NOV file. Fixed.
  • The Desktop Client could hang while importing a large number of users from LDAP. Fixed.
  • The “Custom Media Port” expert setting was not available for I/O devices. Fixed.
  • If an error occurred during the extraction of log files, there was no corresponding error message. Fixed.
  • In the bookmarks list, the current timezone was used instead of the bookmark creation timezone. Fixed.
  • Sometimes, the "Allow using client API" checkbox was not saved after creating a web page. Fixed.
  • If a System with 2FA enabled was opened in the Desktop Client from Cloud, the user was not logged in. Fixed.

 

Known Issues

  • The Desktop Client could not connect to systems 4.2 and older in compatibility mode.

 

 

 

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