BigBlueButton 2.6.0-beta.4

This beta iteration of BigBlueButton 2.6 contains several improvements in accessibility and other updates to existing features. Note that all fixes from BBB 2.5 were pulled up to and including BBB 2.5.9. We have also upgraded several dependencies which were reported to include vulnerabilities. The full list of changes is below.

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: Update Control Labels In Settings by @KDSBrowne in #16265
• fix: Remove Aria Live From Captions by @KDSBrowne in #16263
• fix: Add Missing Main Landmark Element by @KDSBrowne in #16262
• fix: hide export presentation hint if feature is disabled by @antobinary in #16180
• fix: Correcting typos reported in Transifex by @antobinary in #16259
• fix: Hindi naming backport #16251 by @antobinary in #16252
• fix: Disable paste file in whiteboard by @ramonlsouza in #16124
• fix: Breakout rooms don't save room assigning by @gustavotrott in #16154
• fix: incorrect userlist order if name starts with a space by @ramonlsouza in #16127
• feat(whiteboard): reset zoom when switching presentation by @JoVictorNunes in #16169

test:

• test: fix v2.6 CI tests by @antonbsa in #16062
• test: correct visual regression screenshots by @MaximKhlobystov in #16177
• test: Give and remove whiteboard access by @gabriellpr in #16125
• test: Mute all users by @gabriellpr in #16128
• ci: add minimum GitHub token permissions for workflow by @boahc077 #15767

chore:

• Translate '/bigbluebutton-html5/public/locales/en.json' in 'ja' by @transifex-integration in #16276
• Translate '/bigbluebutton-html5/public/locales/en.json' in 'de' [manual sync] #16282
• [Snyk] Security upgrade sanitize-html from 2.3.3 to 2.7.1 by @snyk-bot in #16184
• chore: add transifex.yml for better Transifex integration by @antobinary in #16186 #16187
• chore: Set bigbluebutton release to 2.6.0-beta.4 #16283

Core

• feat(bbb-web): make HTTP session timeout configurable by @prlanzarin in #15741
• fix: Add trim to name parameter by @zhem0004 in #16144
• re-fix: Phone user lock settings by @zhem0004 in #16152
• refactor: rename external upload parameters by @ramonlsouza in #15679
• chore: Upgrade commons-compress to 1.21 by @antobinary in #16253
• chore: upgrade scala 2.13.4 -> 2.13.9 by @antobinary in #16185

export-annotations

• fix(export-annotations: Display poll results by @danielpetri1 in #16175
• chore(bbb-export-annotations) Define required Node.js version by @danielpetri1 in #16105

Build/packaging:

• fix(locale): Remove 'Import' as option from shared notes UI by @danielpetri1 in #15884

Full Changelog: v2.6.0-beta.3...v2.6.0-beta.4

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.4
We still recommend using -v focal-260.

Client build: 271