bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton v2.3.1

BigBlueButton 2.3.1

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This 2.3.x release includes multiple fixes and stability improvements, security related dependency updates (see Security section a few lines below), and overall improvements.

Special thanks to all who have helped with providing feedback for 2.3.0 and also to pull request contributors @PhMemmel @hiroshisuga @mrkeksi !

Security related:

• fix(security): Update sanitize-html package #12296
• We updated the Security policy in BigBlueButton to now list only 2.3.x as actively supported 1f85117 8a2bf78 2061e61

HTML5 client

• fix(security): Update sanitize-html package #12296
• fix(guest): navigator language #12227
• fix: Change open presentation button position #12263
• fix(accessibility): Improve Tab Order Flow #12265
• fix: Add margin between record button and time #12266
• fix: number of votes displayed in poll results annotation #12224
• fix: first audio join in breakout fails with specific config #12272
• fix: bug in playAudioAlert method #12275
• fix: prevent an extra audio channel to be created when skipCheckOnJoin is true #12273
• fix(video): check if pagination is in effect before choosing sort #12277
• fix: Move on/off settings labels outside of buttons #12230
• fix(video): annotate ALL streams from an user on floor updates #12279
• fix: Waiting room panel: Hitting enter sends message #12282
• fix(accessibility): Update App Default Locale Prop Value #12281
• fix: toolbar crash with presenter changes #12297
• fix: chat jumps to top when opened/closed #12321
• fix: handle new message auto-scroll in chat #12354
• fix: panels z-index for mobile #12338
• fix: Fix Presentation uploader missing items #12319
• fix: reduce padding/margin in network popup #12343
• fix: breakout panel width (mobile) #12337
• fix: show message when starting poll without active presentation #12341
• fix: Button for minimize presentation is squished in certain window sizes #12351
• fix: Add scroll to poll question container #12322
• fix: chat popup alerts in open private chat #12324
• fix: template syntax in string literal #12315
• fix: only play audio alert if there are new messages #12304
• fix: Fit conversion error message in toast notification #12317
• fix: increase audio menu width #12359
• fix: action buttons in audio selector - mobile #12360
• fix: change firefox legacy warning + add media query for mobile #12362
• fix: presentation uploader error #12364
• fix(video): check if encodings array is empty before trying to apply bitrate #12368
• fix: show avatar in private chat list #12367
• refactor: remove unused imports #12255
• refactor: Add filter by meetingId in server queries #12256
• refactor(closed captions): useless conditional #12333
• refactor(connection status): remove superfluous trailing argument #12332
• refactor: Adjust poll results annotations #12309
• refactor: remove unused variables #12316
• refactor: Add try/catch on methods #12298
• chore(guest): pt/es guest lobby localization #12220
• chore: Pulled HTML5 locales, May 12, 2021 #12371
• chore: Removed "dev" from 2.3 versioning in settings.yml #12225
• chore: Keep one locale file for Russian language #12229
• chore: Updated lint-staged from 8.1.3 to 11.0.0 #12325 ( this is a devDependency only )
• chore(test): Bump lodash from 4.17.20 to 4.17.21 in /bigbluebutton-html5/tests/puppeteer #12326
• chore(test): Bump hosted-git-info from 2.8.8 to 2.8.9 in /bigbluebutton-html5/tests/puppeteer #12327
• docs: Consider overlay file /etc/bigbluebutton/bbb-html5-with-roles.conf when self-deploying bbb-html5 #12240
• docs: Update numbers for default bbb-html5 backends and frontends #12257
• feat(accessibility): Improve keyboard Access For Breakout Room Assignment #12264
• feat(audio): add showAudioFilters option in settings.yml #12306
• feat(guests): Introduce dynamicGuestPolicy in setting.yml #12361
• feat: Add warning on meeting end modal about content in meeting. #12352

Core

• chore: update readme #12234
• fix: Fix eject user from meeting after inactivity warning timeout #12342
• fix: Fix adding bigbluebutton.web.logoutURL value of default #12238
• feat: Automatically rasterize if slide contains font Type 3 #12200

Recording:

• fix(events): keep events using resque workflow #12276

Note: Multiple parallel recording workers are not yet supported. The default is 1 worker, which means after parallel BigBlueButton sessions finish, there is only one worker thread to create the subsequent recordings. We are going to make some improvements to fix that in a follow-up.

bbb-webhooks:

• chore(webhooks): update dependencies #12308

SFU

• bbb-webrtc-sfu was updated to 2.5.0-beta.4
• bbb-webrtc-sfu is now able to expose Prometheus metrics through an HTTP endpoint. Information on which metrics are exposed and how to set it up can be found here.

Packaging / configuration

• Kurento updated from 6.15.0 to 6.16.0
• PSA: Kurento's niceAgentIceTcp configuration has been renamed to iceTcp (WebRtcEndpoint.conf.ini)
• bbb-html5 packaging - updated inline instructions to contain default of 2 frontend and 2 backend nodejs processes #12232 #12257

Release name

In case an administrator does not want to update to the latest bionic-230 version. Use as substitute to the -v argument in bbb-install.sh command
bionic-230-2.3.1