This alpha iteration of BigBlueButton 2.5 includes improvements to newly added features and a numerous bug fixes.
Note that it runs on Ubuntu Bionic (18.04).
BigBlueButton 2.5-dev is under active development. While we don’t recommend setting it up in a production environment, we do encourage administrators to try out the build with others and give us feedback on our bigbluebutton-dev mailing list.
Link to installation command / instructions/ schedule / planned features : https://docs.bigbluebutton.org/2.5/new.html
All fixes from BigBlueButton 2.4.x after 2.4.4 was released are here up to and including 778db8a
They have been listed in full since this is the first time they are released.
Big THANK YOU to all comminuty members who helped for this release - both through sending pull requests and through reporting bugs or requesting enhancements! 🎊
HTML5 client
fixes
- feat(playback): add shortcuts locale #14397
- feat: Add tooltips to user names in userlist #14404
- feat: Add tooltip to raise hand notification #14453
- fix: remove hide-on-update behavior from tooltip component #14432
- fix(presentation): toast notification in RTL mode #14351
- fix: URL display in chat push notification #14378
- fix: Chat notifications are displayed for the user own messages #14390
- fix(guest-wait): Add missing locale meetingForciblyEnded #14395
- fix(presentation): new message for presentation item status #14427
- fix: breakout room 'shortName' #14454
refactor
- refactor(audio): remove duplicated loadBridges method definition #14434
tests:
- test: Playwright adjustments for 2.5 #14400
- test: Adds some user actions and private chat tests #14333
style:
- fix(styles): button chevron and webcam selector #14428
- fix(style): Adjust dropdown menu position #14439
- style(poll): use primary color variable #14332
- style: add palette's overlay color #14331
- style(layout): toggle switch box shadow #14328
- style: improve background customization #14330
- Fix: toast background styles #14473
chore/docs
- chore: Add jsconfig for bigbluebutton-html5/ #14422
build (packaging scripts) and bbb-conf (configuration)
- build: Use $1 if no EPOCH in akka-apps version #14408
build: Set public.pads.url for bbb-pads #14413 #14414- fix: set public.pads.url instead of public.note.url in bbb-conf #14412 Thanks @danimo
- build: Make bbb-pads dependent on bbb-web; fix permissions for bbb-fsesl-akka logs #14415
- build: Implemented the fix regarding mongod error messages #13572
- fix: Typo in appy-lib #14398 #14403 Thanks @sebastianberm
- build: set BBB full version in settings.yml #14466
- build: bump bbb-webrtc-sfu to v2.7.0-beta.0 #14469
- build(playback): bump version #14409
- bbb-webhooks rebuilt from the right branch
Learning Analytics Dashboard
- feat(Dashboard): a new modal for displaying user details #14365
- fix(Dashboard): average column calculation #14457
Core
- feat: Update breakout duration #14421
- feat(guest): configurable wait timeout #14327
- fix(webcam): add state sync between bbb-html5 and akka-apps #14314
- fix: Add a message for when the guest isn't valid #14334
- fix: Remove guest attempts limit on guestWait endpoint #14131
- fix: Dashboard doesn't update user demote #14447
- fix: dial in users obey guest policy #14344
- fix: Cannot change presentation download permission twice #14458
recording
- refactor(recording): Refactored record-and-playback's deploy script to work properly #14225
bbb-libreoffice
- chore(bbb-libreoffice): Remove older log4j-1* files #14386
Release name
In case an administrator does not want to update to the latest bionic-250 version. Use as substitute to the -v argument in bbb-install.sh command
bionic-250-2.5-alpha-2
We still recommend using -v bionic-250.