BigBlueButton 2.6.0-beta.3
Pre-release
This beta iteration of BigBlueButton 2.6 contains several improvements in accessibility and other updates to existing features.
Note that it runs on Ubuntu Focal (20.04)
BigBlueButton 2.6-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 / planned features : https://docs.bigbluebutton.org/2.6/new.html
Big THANK YOU to all community members who helped for this release - both through sending pull requests and through reporting bugs or requesting enhancements! 🎊
HTML5 client
fixes:
- fix: spelling errors in session keys by @danimo in #15814
- fix: poll chat message popup notification by @JoVictorNunes in #15956
- fix(whiteboard): text annotations stuck as fake and re-adds right click to cancel by @Arthurk12 in #15619
- fix: Speaking person tooltip has wrong encoding by @JoVictorNunes in #16094
- fix: string in selectedTab comparison - connection status modal by @ramonlsouza in #16112
- fix: guarantee cleanup of stale data on re-subscriptions by @prlanzarin in #15929
- fix: do not render video list item if user data is unavailable by @ramonlsouza in #16148
refactors:
- refactor: conditional hook in talking indicator by @ramonlsouza in #16103
- refactor(Dashboard): include cross-origin credentials by @JoVictorNunes in #15910
chore:
- chore: adjust package-lock.json for learning dashb to not interrupt ci by @antobinary in #16106
- chore: rephrase keep pushing layout by @antobinary in #16117
- chore: Meteor 2.9.0, nodejs for bbb-html5 14.21.1 by @antobinary in #16099
- chore: upgrade probe-image-size by @ramonlsouza in #16131
- chore: Pulled the latest 2.6 HTML5 locales from Transifex by @ramonlsouza in #16132
- chore: Merge v2.5.x-release into v2.6 by @ramonlsouza in #16136
test:
- test suite: add API tests for getMeetings/getMeetingInfo by @BrentBaccala in #15653
- Testsuite console log by @BrentBaccala in #15903
- [Snyk] Upgrade dotenv from 16.0.0 to 16.0.1 by @jfederico in #15666
style:
- fix: Previous slide button icon inverted in RTL by @ramonlsouza in #15952
- style: increase video modal max-height by @ramonlsouza in #16098
- style: increase breakout room box size by @ramonlsouza in #16109
accessibility:
- Dashboard A11y Updates by @JoVictorNunes in #16111
Core / Recording
- Check parent meeting IDs on create meeting API calls by @BrentBaccala in #15733
- Recording: Don't use stateful filters in ffmpeg video processing by @kepstin in #16047
- chore: upgrade tomcat to 9.0.70 by @zhem0004 in #16104
- chore(recording): update recording gems -- port of #15552 to BBB 2.6 by @antobinary in #16143
- fix(export-presentation): Fix slides export for cluster setup by @schrd in #15885
packaging and configuration
- Add stun-client package dependency to bbb-config by @BrentBaccala in #15904
Release name
In case an administrator does not want to update to the latest focal-260 version. Use as substitute to the -v argument in bbb-install.sh command
focal-260-2.6.0-beta.3
We still recommend using -v focal-260.
