bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton v3.0.0-beta.5 on GitHub

In this iteration we have included various fixes to both client and server side. Plugin manifests can now be pulled asyncronously on meeting create. A configuration was added for the maximum allowed number of participants in multi user whiteboard. The whiteboard annotations history usage has been reworked leading to a noticeable reduction in payload sizes.

Below is a list of the pull requests in this iteration, grouped by component.

Note that BigBlueButton 3.0-dev runs on Ubuntu Jammy (22.04).

BigBlueButton 3.0-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/3.0/new-features

All fixes from BigBlueButton 2.7.x are here up to and including v2.7.15 (.2 onwards have been manually ported as we no longer merge the 2.7 branch directly into the 3.0 branch).

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 added:

feat(whiteboard): Add config for limiting the number of whiteboard writers by @JoVictorNunes in #21579
feat(chat/message-toolbar): Add tooltips for chat message actions (edit, reply, delete, react) by @Scroody in #21567

fixes

[3.0]docs: Update url for LAD in cluster proxy setup by @antobinary in #21523
fix (LAD/cluster): Enable LearningDashboard cookie support across different subdomains by @gustavotrott in #21518
chore(audio): add I/O device data to audio logs by @prlanzarin in #21502
update(chat): add option to disable private chat by @germanocaumo in #21459
fix(whiteboard): Update tldraw default text alignment values by @KDSBrowne in #21443
Fix: hook being used inside useEffect by @Tainan404 in #21534
fix: audio alerts for user join/leave only work if push alerts are enabled by @ramonlsouza in #21550
fix: User name is displayed when current user is selected on user list by @ramonlsouza in #21549
fix: sidebar is not on right side in RTL languages by @ramonlsouza in #21556
fix(chat): Loading a new message page freezes the client by @JoVictorNunes in #21521
Fix: External video pause unsynched by @Scroody in #21469
Fix: Force reconnection in case of stale connection. by @Tainan404 in #21492
style(chat/message-content): Enhance heading styles in chat message component by @Scroody in #21566
fix: Prevent moderators from deleting others' chat messages in Breakout Rooms by @gustavotrott in #21564
fix(chat): Improved usability, UI fixes, et al. by @JoVictorNunes in #21555
fix(external-video-player): fix seek functionality to the external video player(non youtube) by @Scroody in #21563
fix(shared-notes): force unpin on screen share start by @Arthurk12 in #21514
fix(chat): Stick message toolbar to the message content and display message time on hover by @JoVictorNunes in #21583
style(audio/captions): Adjust icon positioning in the Closed Caption Toggle Button. by @Scroody in #21580
fix(audio): improvements to join procedures and error handling by @prlanzarin in #21601
fix(chat): Unable to open links from replies by @JoVictorNunes in #21608
fix: Presence switch in menu is reversed by @ramonlsouza in #21614
fix(whiteboard): Use the pres_annotation_history_curr for annotation updates by @KDSBrowne in #21571
Fix: Error on pres upload toast errors reappearing when dismissed by @Tainan404 in #21529
Fix: recoding start being triggered by any key by @Tainan404 in #21533
fix(captions/speech): Fix logger debug message placement in start function by @Scroody in #21622
fix(captions/speech): Fix logger debug message placement in stop function by @Scroody in #21631
Fix: Remove polls Decimals by @Tainan404 in #21634
Fix: unpin shared notes when screenshare started by @Tainan404 in #21637
fix: Layout settings reachable from Plus menu as well as 3 dot menu by @ramonlsouza in #21623
fix(whiteboard): Lower min zoom to 25 percent for infinite whiteboard by @KDSBrowne in #21491
fix(tooltip): Fix tooltip interactivity and update toolbar options in settings by @Scroody in #21611
fix(chat/message): Correctly determine sender identity and system message status in ChatMessage component. by @Scroody in #21618
fix(chat): a few adjustments and fixes by @JoVictorNunes in #21636
fix(whiteboard): Increase batch size for annotation history stream by @KDSBrowne in #21664
fix(whiteboard): Get current shape list from tldraw api for access management by @KDSBrowne in #21663
fix(whiteboard): Increase MOUNTED_CAMERA_DELAY time by @KDSBrowne in #21681
fix(whiteboard): Update tldraw camera timeout values by @KDSBrowne in #21685

refactor

refactor(audio): make audio join cancel configurable by @prlanzarin in #21602
style(actions-bar): Refactor margin styles for span elements in ActionsBar components by @Scroody in #21557
refactor(audio-controls): Refactor padding imports in input-stream-live-selector/styles.ts for consistency. by @Scroody in #21651

plugin related

feat(plugins): Notification API support for plugins by @GuiLeme in #21625

test/ci

ci: Improve retry for Install BBB step in Automated Tests by @gustavotrott in #21531
ci: Improve retry for Install BBB step in Automated Tests by @gustavotrott in #21535
ci: Configure HTML5ClientLog for ci by @antobinary in #21569
ci: Removes the special scheduling policies for bbb-webrtc-sfu by @gustavotrott in #21612
ci: Update freeswtich build cache link by @antonbsa in #21617
ci: Use the default bbb-install.sh for BBB 3.0 by @antobinary in #21628
test(ci): add timeout-minutes on install test dependecies step by @antonbsa in #21568
test: Breakout export tests flagged as flaky by @antonbsa in #21582

chore

locales

Updates for project BigBlueButton v3.0 HTML5 client and language fa_IR by @transifex-integration in #21524
Updates for project BigBlueButton v3.0 HTML5 client and language el_GR by @transifex-integration in #21585
Updates for project BigBlueButton v3.0 HTML5 client and language fa_IR by @transifex-integration in #21597
Updates for project BigBlueButton v3.0 HTML5 client and language gl by @transifex-integration in #21607
Updates for project BigBlueButton v3.0 HTML5 client and language ja by @transifex-integration in #21604
Updates for project BigBlueButton v3.0 HTML5 client and language el_GR by @transifex-integration in #21619
Updates for project BigBlueButton v3.0 HTML5 client and language gl by @transifex-integration in #21630
Updates for project BigBlueButton v3.0 HTML5 client and language ja by @transifex-integration in #21641
Updates for project BigBlueButton v3.0 HTML5 client and language et by @transifex-integration in #21657
Updates for project BigBlueButton v3.0 HTML5 client and language ja by @transifex-integration in #21679
Updates for project BigBlueButton v3.0 HTML5 client and language nb_NO by @transifex-integration in #21680
Updates for project BigBlueButton v3.0 HTML5 client and language el_GR by @transifex-integration in #21669

Core -- newly introduced components bbb-graphql-server, bbb-graphql-middleware, bbb-graphql-actions

feat (gql-actions): Add validation for emojis by @gustavotrott in #21572
feat(akka): add feature to decide whether the plugin will run on the breakout-rooms or not by @GuiLeme in #21528
feat(common-web): Add asynchronous fetch to plugin's manifests by @GuiLeme in #21584
feat (gql-middleware): Add Configurations to Enhance GraphQL Rate Limiting and Query Validation by @gustavotrott in #21640
fix(bbb-web): fix plugins not loading nor running into breakout-rooms by @GuiLeme in #21525
fix(bbb-web): Make all document processing timeouts configurable by @paultrudel in #21467
refactor (graphql-server): Preserves the entire history of annotation changes (type pres_annotation_history_curr) by @gustavotrott in #21509
refactor (gql-server): Convert pres_annotation_history_curr.annotationInfo to type Jsonb instead of String by @gustavotrott in #21578
Fix: Infinity loading screen when meeting doesn't exist on Graphql by @Tainan404 in #21494
feat (events.xml): Add chat edit/delete/reply/reaction records by @gustavotrott in #21382
fix: switch meeting schema to use text type where appropriate by @danimo in #21610
refactor (gql-server): Create dedicated postgres users for each application by @gustavotrott in #21633
refactor (gq-server): Make sure Hasura database has the correct permissions by @gustavotrott in #21650
cleanup (gql-middleware): Removes testing-app once it's not being used anymore by @gustavotrott in #21656

build (packaging scripts) / configuration

build: postgres to restart together with BBB by @antobinary in #21532
build: Move bbb-graphql-* binaries out of /usr/local/bin to /usr/bin by @antobinary in #21600
build: Specify BBB requires postgresql 17 by @antobinary in #21588
[3.0]build: use BBB fork of drachtio-freeswitch-modules by @antobinary in #21638
conf: Reload nginx before starting BBB by @antobinary in #21642
Update bbb-transcription-controller to v0.2.9 by @lfzawacki in #21653
Bump Hasura version to 2.44.0 by @gustavotrott in #21652
fix (build): bypass docker error (retry script not working) by @gustavotrott in #21526
fix (bbb-conf): Exclude the pluginManifests config from the non-empty value check by @gustavotrott in #21575

learning analytics dashboard

Recording

Recording: Fix presentation format handling for missing svg slides by @kepstin in #21683

docs

Full Changelog: v3.0.0-beta.4...v3.0.0-beta.5

Release name

Passing -v jammy-300 to https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bbb-install/blob/v3.0.x-release/bbb-install.sh will always install the latest released BigBlueButton 3.0 version.

If for some reason you would like to install this specific release, pass -v jammy-300-3.0.0-beta.5.

We still recommend using -v jammy-300 as this repository is continually updated with each BigBlueButton 3.0 release.