6 May 2025 Release
Early Access
Release Highlights
General
- Participant multi-pinning: Experimental label removed — now considered stable.
- Group chat & polls: Added support for permission management and creation.
- Recording consent dialog: Introduced a new two-option dialog with a configurable “Learn more” link. Not enabled by default but available upon request.
- Default permissions: Backend reports permission sets when a participant becomes a moderator.
- Analytics: Improved internal diagnostics and logging.
- Large video display name: Added a config option to hide label.
- Etherpad shared document URL: Exposed via external API.
- Conference destruction notification: New config option to inform users when a meeting ends forcibly.
- Lobby chat notification: New frontend feature for better lobby communication.
- Accessibility: Added appropriate ARIA roles for improved screen reader support.
- Video codecs: Sets AV1 as the preferred video codec for web
Bug Fixes
- Desktop picker: Prevented an error when the modal is closed before sources load.
- UI layout:
- Resolved overflow and padding issues on small screens.
- Fixed tab content layout on the welcome page.
- Bottom Toolbar: Supporting 2 more custom buttons.
- Chat UI: Reworked message structure and fixed emoji box behavior.
- Font/token system: Fallback to original values when allTokens don’t provide data; replaced fixed px with rem units.
- Toggle camera: Fixes toggleCamera on mobile browser not working as expected
- Connection quality:
- Trigger ramp up on codec and session changes.
- Adds new BWE stat to local participant stats.
- Polls: Halted processing on malformed poll events, preventing crashes.
- Participant unmute: Fixes a "participant unable to unmute" error on Firefox
- JWT:
- Allows feature evaluation even without a JWT.
- Option added to require tenant matching in token contexts.
Language Support
- Updated: German, Latvian, Arabic translation
- Added: Norwegian translation
Versions
Release version
- Release: 5963
- Jitsi Meet: release-8542
- Jitsi Videobridge: 2.3-220-g7cda0a66
- Jicofo: 1128
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