This is the second release of BigBlueButton 2.3 and includes numerous new features and updates to existing ones.
Note that it runs on Ubuntu Bionic (18.04) and HTML5 client runs on Node 12.
Link to installation command / instructions: https://docs.bigbluebutton.org/dev/dev23.html
Note that in addition to the items below, we have also included the recently released BigBlueButton 2.2.22 and 2.2.23 .
HTML5 client
Features
- Non-blocking presentation upload #8464
- Add notification when mic is muted while speaking #9851
- Add Layout Context and Layout Manager #10144
- Notify users when presentation is available for download #10231
Performance
Updated
- Auto select default.pdf after deleting the current presentation #10061
- Update Meteor from 1.9 to 1.10.2 #10090
- Multiple webcams stop all button #8758
- Fix TypeError: Cannot read property 'map' of undefined #10108
- Display tooltips when presentation is fullscreen view #10114
- Add missing package-lock info for "hark" #10133
- Bump lodash from 4.17.15 to 4.17.19 in /bbb-webhooks #10142
- Fix regular expression in Arc Player (LGTM) #10193
- Restore activity check modal. #10189
- Add a socket validation to full-audio connection #10151
- Improve toast notification for raised hands #9964
- Update filenames for saved public chat / users list #10196
- Improve poll results in public chat #10195
- Allow polling when presentation does not exist but chat is available #10194
- Switch to YAML Syntax for Logging #10274
- Fix dropdown menus not closing on item select #10288
- Modern Camera Profiles #10273
- Fix intl loop #10324
- Remove unsafe lifecycle from intl component #10220
- Remove unsafe lifecycle from all dropdown related components #10219
QA
- Fix breakout autotest #9958
- Add specs to breakout autotest and fix old outdated autotests #10092
- Fixes outdated auto tests #10198
Core
- Improvements on web and bbb-libreoffice #10117
- Make the bigbluebutton user id be mapped on startup #10185