14 December 2021 Release

Release Highlights

New features

• Breakout rooms support
• New improved tile view layout
• New display name UI

UX improvements

• Improves notification timeouts and makes them configurable
• Fix to avoid double permission prompts on Firefox after choosing non-default device
• Allows hide/show toolbar on tap on mobile web
• Adds keyboard shortcuts for Polls
• Accessibility improvements
• Advanced moderation improvements
• Fixes slider appearance on Firefox
• Hides indicator circle when ghost icon is hidden
• Polls UI fixes on Firefox
• Displays Poll creator and more polls UI improvements
• Speaker stats fixes
• Removes device notifications in the pre-join screen
• Calculates avatar color based on display name
• Adds support for special characters and emojis in avatar initials
• Updates reaction sounds
• Fixes recording already started error
• Fix private message reply button not working
• Responsive UI improvements in pre-join screen
• Show raise hand status live in participants pane
• Allows to stop shared video from the participants pane
• Fix chat and polls title
• Allow moderators to mute reaction sounds
• Hides email field under profile settings

Quality improvements

• Adds a config to allow enabling/disabling RTCStats on the server
• Don't set the MAX over-send limit for non-scalable streams
• Fixes error message when a recorder session already exists
• Adds a limit for audio/video senders in a large conference (current limit is set to a 100 by default)
• Large conferences performance improvements
• Fixes a condition in which a participant can join when a videobridge is shutting down
• Fixes an issue on Safari where black video is rendered sometimes whenever a new stream is attached to the large video container
• RTX with Firefox from 96 on only - RTX in combination with simulcast on Firefox results in bad video quality, therefore we only enable it for version >= 96
• Fixes a bug where remote audio is not being played out if the user joins audio and video muted from pre-join screen on Safari
• E2EE fixes and improvements
• Don't stop local screen-sharing on mute all
• Always prioritize screen-sharing even in tile view
• Enables XMPP MUC rate limit for lobby and breakout MUC components
• Marks safari <14 as unsupported
• Exposes supported mobile browsers

JaaS APIs

• Adds recording download link available event
• Keep URL params on iframe reload
• Adds config to disable screen sharing as virtual background
• Trigger events for poll created and answered
• Adds config option to disable indicator popover
• Adds support for dynamic branding
• Adds externally managed key mode
• Adds lobby auto-knock config
• Add disableBeforeUnloadHandlers option
• Allows disabling mode where video can be zoomed in the thumbnail
• Improves recordingLinkAvailable to provide TTL info
• Adds the possibility to hide extra join options' buttons
• Adds the ability to hide self view (disableSelfView)

Versions

Release version

• Jitsi Meet: 5675.2385
• Jitsi Videobridge: 595
• Jicofo: 832

Changelog

• Jitsi Meet
• Jitsi Videobridge
• Jicofo

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