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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