21 November 2024 Release

Release Highlights

UX/UI

Adds reactions and replies to chat messages
Subtitles re-styling to improve readability
Enables transcriptions for visitors/observers in a large meeting
Adds "recorder follows me" option to moderator controls
Accessibility:
- Adds aria-live to the notification component
- Adds keyboard navigation to the toolbar
- Adds focus and blur handle to the toolbar
Scales display name size showing on top of videos based on the screen size
Hides the display name label over screen sharing in stage view when the toolbar is hidden
Fixes local video "flip mode" between stage and tile view
Fixes multiple executions on shortcut press
Adds a link to the participant panel on raise hand notification
Updates German, Latvian, Portuguese and Russian translations

Quality & Performance

Enables AV1 as the preferred video codec on Chromium endpoints
Introduces a new feature for run time adjustments to the received and sent videos for a better user experience when the local endpoint reports high CPU consumption
Fixes an issue when client's media stops when their NAT rebinds. They perform a seamless restart now
Optimizes initial ICE connection time, gaining a nice performance boost
Fixes a rare case of the main room getting destroyed when all participants move to a breakout room
A number of improvements around polls including:
- Improves polls message validation
- Prevents creation of too many polls
- Discards extremely large payloads
Improves handling of transcriptions/subtitles
Adds notification when a transcriber fails and leaves the call
Fixes freezes on Firefox: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1917800

JaaS APIs

Adds an option to automatically enable subtitles when transcriber is available
Adds an option allowing to enable/disable audio only mode
Fixes some inconsistencies between disableLocalVideoFlip flag and the UI
Allows non-moderators with defined features in the token to record, transcribe and dial-out
Adds API to activate recorder follow me
Adds API to allow setting of blurred background
Groups raiseHand configs: https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/commit/8299aa498bc717e512253d0bee0b9febbcca746c

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