23 September 2021 Release

Release Highlights

New Features

• Advanced moderation allowing moderator to restrict audio and video access for any number of participants
• Adds ability to send reactions
• Adds ability to create polls
• Reorders the visible participants in the filmstrip in alphabetical order

Quality improvements

• Fixes the position for horizontal filmstrip view
• Fixes an error Cannot convert undefined or null to object on load
• Fixes shared video links not being trimmed
• Fixes alphabetical sort in participant list
• Displays green mic icon only for the active speaker
• Fixes participants pane button toggle state
• E2EE UI fixes
• Fixes recording start notification not disappearing
• Scrolls to the top when opening feedback dialog
• Don't show volume slider on iOS web

JaaS APIs

• Adds callStatsConfigParams config
• Adds connection indicators flags
• Adds configuration to disable removing raised hand on dominant speaker
• Adds configuration to disable chat emoticons
• Adds additional setting to order participants in speaker stats
• Adds command to set participant volume
• Makes conference info header configurable
• Exposes event used for sending browser support
• Do not show overwritten unsupported browser page for JaaS users

MISC

• Works around an edge case where browser bandwidth estimations get stuck. This could lead to a lot of ghosts appearing for some users
• Fixes screen sharing not appearing for certain users in a multi-regional conference
• Fixes flickering from avatar to video reported from some users when their bandwidth goes down for a short period
• Large conference signalling optimizations
• Fixes bandwidth estimation on Firefox
• Fixes audio / video delay

Versions

Release version

• Jitsi Meet: 5322
• Jitsi Videobridge: 2.1-555-g692f270f
• Jicofo: 798

Changelog

• Jitsi Meet
• Jitsi Videobridge
• Jicofo

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