This 2.3-beta-2 release includes multiple bug fixes, accessibility and usability improvements, and additions features such as giving user the ability to change audio input/output channels and a new icon that detects and shows potential connection issues.
Under the hood, the session description protocol (SDP) for negotiation of audio now uses unified plan, which will the soon to be depreciated plan-b in all browsers.
Special thanks to contributors @schrd @danimo @PhMemmel @FarzadKarkhani @Rahimimojtaba @paulmenzel and others for helping with code contributions / comments / testing and proving feedback
Features:
- Moved and improved connection-status (in nav-bar) #11758
- Adds a customizable "office to pdf" converter for presentations #11717
- Dynamic change audio device #11813
HTML5 client
- Move connection-status to nav-bar #11758 #11791
- Dynamic change audio device #11813
- Retry sending annotations if user information is not available #11747
- Fix Cannot read property 'posJoinMessages' of undefined #11749
- Remove the drag and drop input field for typed responses polls #11742
- Remove sender.name and color from message payload #11734
- Fix for poll result in RTL languages #11127
- Fix actions bar buttons overlapped by right side #11783
- Add collection user persistent data #11722
- Updated meteor-node-stubs from 1.0.1 to 1.0.3 #11751
- video,screeshare,listenonly: remove Safari gathering barrier for SDP offer generation #11769
- screenshare: bump base/max timeouts to 30s/60s #11780
- Bump y18n from 4.0.0 to 4.0.1 in /bigbluebutton-html5 #11794
- Bump y18n from 4.0.0 to 4.0.1 in /bigbluebutton-html5/tests/puppeteer #11796
- Improve guest lobby feedback #11801
- Mobile video dropdown size #11792
- Enabled by default Shared notes in 2.3 #11808
- Rework banned users #11807
- Different colors for the selected User Response poll button #11811
- Fix localization of heading in presentation uploader #11838
- Improvements in muted banner #11831
- Change browser detection library to bowser #11841
- Fix actions bar height for mobile #11844
- Fix mobile video dropdown #11845
- fix: MEDIA_ERROR when joining room using Firefox #11849
- Set breakoutRoomLimit to 16 #11854
Accessibility:
- Remove complementary role from user content #11737
- Reduce Audio Modal Heading To H2 #11738
- Remove complementary role from user content #11737
- Fix duplicate element Id in UserParticipants #11736
- Remove gradient from content styling #11735
- Auto-reconnect webcam after leaving breakout room #11766
- Remove invalid aria values and roles without proper structure #11784
Core
bbb-conf:
- Fix URL in bbb-conf warning #11777
- bbb-config, packaging: prevent cron job from restarting KMS unnecessarily #11763
- Improve logic for detecting distro in bbb-conf #11774
bbb-web:
- Adds a customizable "office to pdf" converter for presentations #11717
- Enhancements to presentation OfficeToPDF conversion #11809
- Quick fix to avoid empty slides #11750
- Config overlay for bbb-web turn server config #11804
Other:
- fix:Banned user rejoining error code modified with error message #1179
- Logout response message modified reasoncode #11727
- Most recent freeswitch config #11361
- Updated to FreeSWITH 1.10.6
Recording:
SFU
bbb-webrtc-sfu was updated to 2.5.0-alpha.4
Packaging / configuration
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Removed obsolete red5 related blocks from sites-available/bigbluebutton #11754
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Adjusted file ownership/permissions for package files for
bbb-html5#11752 #10831 more changes to come in beta3 -
Can change the number of frontends / backends bbb-html5 nodejs process from new file
/etc/bigbluebutton/bbb-html5-with-roles.conf- see bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton.github.io#241 Thanks @schrd ! -
Calculate correctly number of users for cron restart of kms #11763 and same change to packaging
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Packaging changes to support 'Adds a customizable "office to pdf" converter for presentations #11717'
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Enabled by default Shared notes in 2.3 #11808
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Config overlay for bbb-web turn server config #11804
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Set breakoutRoomLimit default to 16 #11854