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20 January 2026 Release

Features​

Chat & Messaging​

  • Display file uploads as inline chat messages
  • Add disableChat configuration option
  • Improve naming convention for unread items
  • Don't show private chat picker if disabled

Large Meetings​

  • Add hideVisitorCountForVisitors config option
  • Add showJoinMeetingDialog config option

Prejoin & Lobby​

  • Add showHangUp config option to _prejoinConfig_
  • Fix room name backdrop and button sizes
  • Handle disabling lobby
  • Style adjustments

Toolbox & UI​

  • Add polls and file sharing buttons to overflow menu
  • Implement toolbar background color via configOverwrite for web
  • Apply reduce UI for web
  • Add _toolbarVisibilityChanged_ event to the IFrame API

Configuration & Metadata​

  • Add _lobbyEnabled_ and _visitorsEnabled_ to metadata

Other Features​

  • Add support for any keyboard layout (Keyboard Shortcuts)
  • Add WebRTC availability detection
  • Add name to all dialogs
  • Expose mute remote command and participant muted event (External API)

Fixes​

Chat​

  • Clear private message notice if sender leaves
  • Fix sending messages after private message sender leaves

Lobby & Persistent Lobby​

  • Hide login button if authenticated (JWT is available)
  • Update metadata on destroy lobby room and let in participants on empty main

Large Video & Filmstrip​

  • Pin previous speaker on stage when local user is dominant speaker
  • Fix auto-pinning of screenshare in large meetings
  • Fix bug with ghosts sometimes appearing by removing a legacy feature for non-scalable desktop streams

Polls & Breakout Rooms​

  • Fix support for breakout rooms in polls
  • Fix polls in main when breakout is enabled
  • Update polls validation
  • Add UI setting to show groupchat polls permissions option

Transcription​

  • Fix UI bug where you cannot start transcription 2nd time

Performance & Memory​

  • Fix a memory leak in preloadImage (Avatar)

Settings​

  • Prevent enabling audio processing settings and stereo at the same time

i18n​

  • Fix Chinese language issues and hyphenated locale persistence

Avatar​

  • Strip bracketed annotations from display names before generating initials

Other Fixes​

  • Improved network switching by keeping multiple ICE pairs alive
  • Avoid cleanup when breakout rooms are active (cleanup_backend)
  • Check connection when processing rate limited events (MUC rate limit)

Language Support​

  • Update Swedish, Chinese, Italian, Latvian, German translations

Miscellaneous​

Infrastructure​

  • Remove colibri websocket support, in favor of SCTP

Versions​

Release version

  • Release: 6524
  • Jitsi Meet: release-8979
  • Jitsi Videobridge: 2.3-270-g38ea5ea44
  • Jicofo: 1169

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