This iteration of BigBlueButton 2.7-dev includes several fixes including dial-in user appearance. Visual modifications to the Layouts modal were made. A screen wake lock feature was introduced. All 2.6 fixes up to and including 2.6.11 are part of this iteration.
Note that a new version of libopusenc - 0.2.1-1bbb2 has been pushed to PPA https://launchpad.net/~bigbluebutton/+archive/ubuntu/support to fix an issue that could cause freeswitch to crash. See https://gitlab.xiph.org/xiph/libopusenc/-/merge_requests/4 for more info.
Note that BigBlueButton 2.7 runs on Ubuntu Focal (20.04).
BigBlueButton 2.7-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/2.7/new-features
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
newly introduced:
- feat: Screen wake lock feature by @Arthurk12 in #18164
fixes
- fix: Dial-in users not in list by @gustavotrott in #18385
- fix(accessibility): Restore Roving Functionality To User Chats And Captions List by @KDSBrowne in #18347
- fix: bbb_hide_presentation_on_join parameter not working by @ramonlsouza in #18396
- refactor: Layouts modal iteration by @ramonlsouza in #18374
- refactor: Re-writing of the meeting ending to make navigation more clear for users by @Scroody in #18372
- refactor: Update layout images by @ramonlsouza in #18394
- style: primary color in quick poll button by @ramonlsouza in #18384
test
- test: check to fit-to-width by @gabriellpr in #18360
- test: Breakout tests update by @antonbsa in #18358
- test: Raise and lower hand tests fix by @antonbsa in #18378
- test: Parameter tests fix by @antonbsa in #18377
- test: Connection status element selector fix by @antonbsa in #18391
- test: Add @flaky test flag and avoid them when running the tests on CI by @antonbsa in #18410
Core
build and configuration
- chore: Bump Etherpad to 1.9.1 by @danielpetri1 in #18276
- chore(bbb-presentation-video): Update to 4.0.3 by @kepstin in #18330
- chore: Bump bbb-pads to 1.5.0 by @antobinary in #18375
- chore: Bump bbb-pads to 1.5.1 by @antobinary in #18382
- chore: Merge 2.6.11 into 2.7 by @antobinary in #18392
- ci: Update URLs by @antonbsa in #18381 #18388
- ci(tests): Improve the handling of failures during the workflow by @gustavotrott in #18390
- chore: set guestPolicyExtraAllowOptions to false by @antobinary in #18405
docs
- docs: Add instructions for resolving Java version conflicts by @danielpetri1 in #18383
Full Changelog: v2.7.0-beta.2...v2.7.0-beta.3
Release name
Passing -v focal-270 to https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bbb-install/blob/v2.7.x-release/bbb-install.sh will always install the latest released BigBlueButton 2.7 version.
If for some reason you would like to install this specific release, pass -v focal-270-2.7.0-beta.3.
We still recommend using -v focal-270 as this repository is continually updated with each BigBlueButton 2.7 release.