BigBlueButton 2.7.0
This is the official release of BigBlueButton 2.7, the culmination of ~5 months of development, 1921 commits, 3 alpha, 3 beta, and 2 release candidates.
This is a major release of BigBlueButton and contains multiple new and improved features
- Grid layout
- Camera as content
- Disable viewing your own video stream
- Restore downloading of original presentation
- Timer and stopwatch
- Wake lock
- Reactions bar
- Moderators invited to breakout rooms
- Support for VOSK as a speech-to-text backend
- Lock viewers to not see others' whiteboard annotations (better visual assessment)
You will also notice improved stability and usability as well as some polishing of the user interface! This release runs on Ubuntu 20.04.
Link to the installation command / instructions/ full list of features: https://docs.bigbluebutton.org/2.7/new-features/
Thanks to our Community
The BigBlueButton project is supported by a world-wide community of developers, teachers, testers, and government, commerical, and educational organizations.
For this release, we want to thank in particular the following organizations.
We thank ZKI, the German association of Higher Education IT centers, for its members that have collectively supported the overall development for this release. We also thank the German Universities that have tested earlier builds of this release and given feedback and helped improve the overall quality of this release.
We thank the French Ministry of Education and Dinum who have supported the development of features in this release, including Reactions Bar, restore downloading of original presentation, grid layout, integration with Vosk, and moderators invited to breakout rooms. (In French) Le projet BigBlueButton souhaite remercier le ministère français de l' Education Nationale et la Dinum, qui a directement contribué au développement de cette version en finançant de nouvelles fonctionnalités.
We thank the many translators who helped ensure that BigBlueButton is localized.
Big THANK YOU to all community members who helped for this release -
both through sending pull requests and through reporting bugs or requesting enhancements! 🎊
Full list of changes since BBB 2.6
v2.6.x-release...v2.7.x-release
In this iteration we tweak the documentation to show BigBlueButton 2.7 as stable and latest. We also included some localization changes. Other than those, BigBlueButton 2.7.0 release is simply renaming of 2.7.0-rc.2.
Documentation
- chore: bump up release to 2.7.0 by @antobinary in #18725
- docs: 2.7 released docs by @antobinary in #18732
Localization
- Updates for project BigBlueButton v2.7 HTML5 client and lanuage fa_IR on branch v2.7.x-release #18722
- Updates for project BigBlueButton v2.7 HTML5 client and lanuage gl on branch v2.7.x-release #18693
Full Changelog: v2.7.0-rc.2...v2.7.0
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.
We still recommend using -v focal-270 as this repository is continually updated with each BigBlueButton 2.7 release.
