4 July 2024 Release

Release Highlights

UX/UI

  • Improved polls UX that now allows editing and saving before sending to other participants
  • Main toolbar improvements related to screen size handling
  • Updates Canadian, French, German, Indonesian, Latvian, Russian and Turkish translations
  • Fixes overflow menu closing in participants panel
  • Improves notification UI around media data channel disconnects
  • Improves visitors authentication error handling to provide better feedback specific to the visitors case
  • Improved and more intuitive visitors UI
  • Extends recording notification timeout
  • Properly closes breakout rooms menu after clicking on it
  • Adds a full screen button for iPad browsers

Quality

  • Large conferences performance improvements
  • Fixes a rare failure in which after a web socket reconnect we may fail to playback/render some sources
  • Updates the bitrate settings for 1080p and 4K
  • Fixes an issues where microphone change for Safari fails
  • Saves the local recording if the conference fails
  • Use an exponential backoff time for initiating ICE restart to prevent loading the signaling servers
  • Fixes poor low resolution video from for older electron versions when the codec changes from VP9->VP8->VP9

JaaS APIs

  • A number of improvements to our Toolbar API. It now allows to specify a custom order for different screen sizes.
  • Allows overriding desktop deep linking toggle (deeplinking.desktop.enabled)
  • Adds CONFERENCE_CREATED_TIMESTAMP event
  • Fixes hideConferenceSubject config
  • Adds config to hide login button on the "Wait For Owner" dialog
  • Includes transcription state in recordingStatusChanged
  • Add ability to start transcriptions together with recordings
  • Adds isLiveStreamingRunning helper

Client version update Aug 13, 2024

  • Fixes IP address exposure in Giphy and shared video features.

Versions

Release version

  • Release: 5218
  • Jitsi Meet: 8043
  • Jitsi Videobridge: 2.3-149-g793df5a9
  • Jicofo: 1084

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