22 June 2021 Release

Release Highlights

UX improvements

• Responsive Virtual Backgrounds preview dialog
• Fixes around the new Participants panel
• Adds hover state for "Don't show screen" button
• Fixes notifications for phone invites
• Fixes displaying mute everyone buttons for non-moderators
• Fixes chat focus
• Avoid URL blipping on invite dialog
• Fixes playing muted youtube video

JAAS

• Disables help and download apps buttons for JaaS
• Adds config option to overwrite invite subject app name
• Allows SIP invites to contain phone numbers
• Allows always hiding remote videos for 1-1 calls
• Allows filmstrip autohide to be configurable
• Exposes event for mouse movements inside the iframe

MISC

• Signalling optimizations
• Fixes handling tenant in util and lobby
• Fixes tokens with uppercase letters
• Adds retries for when play track fails - attempt to fix issue where people loose audio during the call
• Fixes audio and screenshare issues occurring when using shared youtube video
• Fixes a screenshare quality issue when H.264 codec is used
• Fixes a known Firefox bug where BWE goes down on renegotiations

Server side

• Fixes a rare crash that could occur with our videobridge
• In very-low-bandwidth scenarios without a screenshare, we will now go down to sending zero videos (i.e. we won't oversend a video, only a screenshare)
• Some updates to dependencies that had security issues, but none of the issues were known to affect us, this was just acting on the dependencybot warnings

Versions

Release version

• Jitsi Meet: 5054
• Jitsi Videobridge: 2.1-508-gb24f756c
• Jicofo: 756

Changelog

• Jitsi Meet
• Jitsi Videobridge
• Jicofo

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