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
Versions
Release version
- Release: 5518
- Jitsi Meet: 8206
- Jitsi Videobridge: 2.3-168-g28674f78
- Jicofo: 1101
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