This release of BigBlueButton 2.3-beta-1 significantly advances the development of BigBlueButton 2.3. This beat release includes multiple bug fixes and several new features. As a beta, we are now moving in to testing and bug fixing as we iterate towards a general release.
New features:
- Whiteboard individual access #11669 #11689
- Move Raise Hand Functionality To Actions Bar Button #11703
- Enabled by default
Screensharing (Chromium-based browsers, tab sharing only) with sound#11622 (recording handling was completed) ia #11731 - Enabled by default
Add notification when mic is muted while speaking#9851 via #11721
HTML5 client
Polling:
- Prevent sending typed poll empty response #11661
- Escaping user typed poll results #11671
- QA: Update and add Polling specs #11574
- Improve poll function #11686
- Case insensitive typed poll responses grouping #11718
Shared notes:
- Fixed: cannot type when using mobile browser #11441
- Handle pad's events and Meteor's instances #11726
- proxy 127.0.0.1 instead of aliased localhost #11716
- Updated Etherpad to 1.8.13
- Added ep_disable_chat from npm package
- Enabled ep_cursortrace (who-is-typing) and increased settings' change rate
- Increased notes ttl settings intervals
- Included pad validation at nginx proxy
Media related:
- Default enable banner alert when user speaks with mic muted #11721
- audio: change default SDP format to Unified Plan #11728
- video-provider: add dynamic video page sizes based on number of users #11664
- kurento-utils: update UAParser and js.merge #11688
- screenshare: check if the user is still presenter after gDM resolves #11730
Other:
- [Refactor] Whiteboard individual access #11669 #11689
- Fix reactive issue with reconnection #11725
- Fix userlist RTL/LTR for userlist when language is changed #11724
- Show unmuted microphone in video #11678
- Fixes chat panel appearing after webcam share/unshare #11672
- Fix userlist height if banner is enabled #11694
- Fix client crash when user is sharing video #11698
- Add selectRandomUser settings #11700
- Increasing userlist menu width #11710
- Fix messages not being cleared #11691
- Increasing presenter menu width #11711
- Move Raise Hand Functionality To Actions Bar Button #11703
- Retrieve guest user pre-join messages only when userId is available #11713
- Locales fetch rework #11719
- Adds parameters check after extractCredentials is used #11658
- Prevent logged out user to spam validateAuthToken #11709
- Handle pad's events and Meteor's instances #11726
- Pulled HTML5 locales on March 24, 2021 #11732
Core
- Replaced keepEvents with defaultKeepEvents and meetingKeepEvents #11681 Note** keepEvents is now
falseby default - [Refactor] Whiteboard individual access #11669 #11689
- Create meeting message order precedes group chat message in akka-apps #11650
- Correctly catch bigbluebutton.web.serverURL #11656
Recording
- Don't use string interpolation when generating commands for slide conversion #11685
- Audio processing changes to reduce audio desync #11683
- Add rap processing for screen streams with audio (complements #11622) #11626
- Don't print audio info for corrupt audio files #11739
SFU
Multiple improvements, check the following pull request for more info:
bigbluebutton/bbb-webrtc-sfu#86