This alpha iteration of BigBlueButton 2.5 includes some packaging and configuration improvements, several fixes and an imporant whiteboard enhancement - Sending chat annotation updates on each keystroke - #14686.
Note that it runs on Ubuntu Focal (20.04). If you have a BigBlueButton version earlier than alpha.5, please check the alpha.5 release notes as they contain imporant information on upgrading
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 (note that these changed significantly for alpha.5)
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
- refactor(video-list-item): hookify and reorganize component #14590 @frankemax
- fix: In Firefox, "Start a private chat" is always with hover style (2.5) #14681 @ramonlsouza
- fix: adjust chat area size #14685 @ramonlsouza
- refactor(whiteboard): text tool updates #14686 @mariogasparoni @Arthurk12
- fix: Ejected user keep trying to reconnect #14690 @gustavotrott
- fix: fullscreen instead of Exit Full Screen (presentation) #14674 @ramonlsouza
- fix: remove spurious console.log in base.jsx #14695 @prlanzarin
- fix: setSwapLayout happens after other components change its value #14706
- fix(chat): close private chat button #14577 @JoVictorNunes
- fix: toast notification style #14578 @JoVictorNunes
- fix: Clear chat button is not working #14658 @ramonlsouza
- fix(locale): add locale for audio settings speaker test label #14726 @prlanzarin
chore/docs
- chore: upgrade meteor to 2.6.1 #14568 @ramonlsouza
- chore: npm update deps learning dashboard #14711 @antobinary
build (packaging scripts) and bbb-conf (configuration)
- build(freeswitch-core): Set local_ip_v4 in vars xml #14677 @ffdixon
- build: Filter for ipv4 ip on FreeSWITCH #14678 @ffdixon
- fix: Update bbb-conf to skip commented lines #14679 @ffdixon
- build: Silent check for worker_rlimit_nofile #14680 @ffdixon
- build: make bbb-record-core package install again on focal #14662 @danimo @kepstin
- build: move ruby-bundler libsystemd-dev to docker image #14693 @antobinary
- chore: upgrade meteor to 2.6.1 #14568 @ramonlsouza
- build(playback): update to v3.4.0 #14694 @pedrobmarin
- chore: move sox dependency to Dockerfile #14709 @antobinary
- fix: disable THP called too often #14724 @zhem0004
- build: drop net-tools from bbb-freeswitch-core #14702 @antobinary
Core
- fix: false positive when checking if bbb-web is running, run-dev.sh #14700 @prlanzarin
- feat: Add meetingExpire params to API /create #14701 @gustavotrott
- refactor: Improve scripts to run/deploy applications #14713 #14720 @gustavotrott
Release name
In case an administrator does not want to update to the latest focal-250 version. Use as substitute to the -v argument in bbb-install-2.5.sh command
focal-250-2.5.0-alpha.6
We still recommend using -v focal-250.