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BigBlueButton v2.2-rc Release Notes

Release Date: 2019-11-22 // over 4 years ago

  • 🚀 This RC-2 release finished a lot of pending updates with a focus on stability as we work towards the final release.

    ➕ Added:

    • 'Who is talking' indicator #8292 #8330
    • 👍 Allow for skipping video preview (passed param or settings.yml) when auto joining with webcam #8319#8353
    • ➕ Add audio cue and toast on user join settings #8318
    • Webcam resizable #8303
    • ➕ Add notification when recording started with no mic users #8261
    • ➕ Added a join parameter to set a new default video profile #8300
    • 👍 Allow for logTag parameter in settings.yml #8329
    • ➕ Added event listener to change slides with Page Up and Page Down #8128

    ⚡️ Updated:

    • 📇 Renamed all userdata join parameters to follow the same pattern (old names still supported) #8305 #7805
    • 🐎 Performance: Update annotations/cursor streamer logic #8235
    • 👍 Recording: Switch from vp8 to vp9, use better x264 options #7057
    • Recording: Skip ".norecord" meetings when running --rebuildall #8350
    • 📇 Recording: screenshare recording format: add breakout room info to metadata.xml #8349
    • Recording: edited rap-caption-inbox.rb to get appropriate files in presentation #8277
    • Adjusted emphasis in UX for breakouts and who-is-typing #8322
    • 👌 Improved correlation between FreeSWITCH and BBB audio logs #8326

    🛠 Fixed:

    • Audio: Handle sip.js autoplay failure #8357
    • ⏱ Audio: Hangup sip.js on timeout and stop audio join double click #8358
    • Account for mDNS candidates on gUM fallback for recvonly peers #8327
    • 🌲 Keep html5 client log file permissions #8314