This beta iteration of BigBlueButton 2.5 includes multiple fixes and a few packaging and configuration improvements.
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! 🎊
Contains fixes from BigBlueButton 2.4.x up to April 27, 2022 #14900
HTML5 client
- fix(menu): update previous open dropdown on user list reordering #14671
- fix: undefined user prop crash in userlist #14844
- fix: whiteboard toolbar border-radius #14856
- fix(microphone): modal not showing errors #14683
- fix(audio): restore audio behavior within main room after leaving breakout room #14316
- fix: Blue screen when using fill poll values option #14871
- fix: Audio device selector icon wrong position in RTL layout #14872
- fix: Closed captions position when the presentation is minimized #14823
- test: fixes for 2.4 Playwright tests #14870
- fix: check whether there's a toast before dismissing #14884
- fix: minimize button does not appear with autoSwapLayout and oldMinimizeButton #14869
- refactor: Remove the endpoint html5/useragent #14886
- fix: User who left the meeting sometimes remains in some user lists #14890
- chore: disable candidate signaling by default #14858
- chore: update npm dependencies #14876
- chore: update meteor to 2.7.1 #14877
- chore: Pulled the latest 2.5 HTML5 locales from Transifex #14915
bbb-freeswitch-core
- chore: Adjust jitterbuffer settings in FreeSWITCH to improve audio #14893
bbb-learning-dashboard
- fix(Dashboard): apply charset=UTF-8 to csv data #14842
- chore(Dashboard): npm audit fix #14874
- build: temp disable max-len eslint to avoid error #14918
build (packaging scripts) and bbb-conf (configuration)
- build(packaging): Add dependencies on yq 3 #14883
- fix(config): Propagate default value for shared secret to bbb-web.properites #14901
- build: update meteor to 2.7.1 #14877
- build: bump bbb-webrtc-sfu to v2.8.1 #14891
- chore(playback): v4.0.0 #14862
Recording
- fix: Include Return of the props in the read_props method. #14861
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-beta.2
We still recommend using -v focal-250.