What's new in version 37?

The new features and enhancements and changes in functionality included in version 37 of the Pexip Infinity platform and associated web apps, along with any planned changes, are described below.

For full information about the release, see the Pexip Infinity release notes and the Pexip web app release notes.

For information about new features and changes to this and earlier versions of Pexip Infinity, see:

Pexip Infinity v37 new features and enhancements

Pexip Infinity platform

Feature Description More information
Layout improvements: new splash-screen background image, in-conference indicators, customizing an unused slot with participant pinning, customizable second screen and support for 3x3, 4x4, 5x5 and custom layouts in multiscreen systems

There are several modifications to the Base theme and improvements to how some layout features are displayed:

  • The Base theme has a new default background image that is used on splash screens. Also, most of the splash screens (such as the Welcome screen shown below) no longer display any overlay graphics/icons by default, but they still display any text-based messages, such as "Welcome".

    The PIN entry screens and "no presentation" screen do still display overlay icons as per previous releases.

  • The in-conference indicators and messages that are shown in the information bar at the top of the layout (which indicate states such as a locked conference, raised hands etc), have been improved:

    • The information bar now has a line separator between indicators with associated numbers and those without numbers. It also has a more subtle border and tint.
    • Some of the icons used in the information bar (raised hand, locked conference, recording/streaming) have been updated, and the expanded in-conference message indicators now have a plainer background for improved accessibility. For example:

  • When using participant pinning, you can now customize via themes a slot's appearance when there are no participants found.
  • If you have a multiscreen system:

    • The second screen can now be customized via themes to show an image or background of your choice when it is not being used to display conference content. A black screen is used by default.
    • You can now display conference participants across both screens when using a 3x3 layout. If dual screen is enabled when using a 4x4 or 5x5 layout it now displays 3x3 on both screens (previously it would display 1+7).
    • Custom layouts now support multiscreen systems. Each screen can have its own layout configuration applied, up to a total of 26 participants across all screens.

Conference layouts and speaker names

Base theme and other preconfigured themes

Pinning participants to the layout during a conference

Customizing the unused screen in a dual-screen system

Custom layouts

Multiscreen participant display

Policy enhancements: multiscreen and "presentation in mix" overrides in participant policy

Local and external policy has the following additions:

  • In participant policy you can now override whether the participant is enabled for multiscreen participant display, and whether they receive presentation as part of the layout mix.
Requests and responses when using the Pexip Infinity external policy API
Theme updates and improvements: "unused screen" splash screen, new default font, improved information bar messages color customization, unused slot customization for participant pinning, blank SVG icon files

There are several improvements and updates to themes and splash screens:

  • There is a new configurable unused_screen splash screen within the theme configuration file that defines the appearance of an unused second screen in multiscreen systems.
  • "Inter" is now the default font for overlay text (splash screen text and in-conference messages).
  • The text and background colors of the messages when the layout's information bar (notch) is in light mode can be customized via a new light_mode field in the indicator_color_config setting in the theme configuration file. You can also now separately specify the background and border colors of all messages.

    The new border field is required when customizing a message. If you have an existing custom theme that includes indicator_color_config you must update it to include a border value for each specified message type.

  • Within a pinning configuration file you can now override the default behavior of what is displayed in an unused slot. You do this on a per-slot basis by defining a reserved_appearance dictionary for a slot.
  • Many of the overlay icon SVG files that are used by splash screens now contain empty/blank images. However, they are still referenced by the splash screens for backwards compatibility, but as they are blank by default they do not affect each screen's new default appearance in version 37 (which many now typically only show a background image and a text label).

Rules and requirements for customized themes

Live captions now a fully supported feature and multiple AIMS server support

With the release of AIMS v1, live captions is no longer a technical preview feature. You can now connect to multiple AIMS servers to enable live captions; these connections are configured under the new Platform > Media Processing Servers page.

The live captions feature requires integration with a Pexip Private AI platform. For full details, see Pexip Private AI and AIMS.

Live captions (Global settings)

Configuring media processing servers

Enabling live captions

One-Touch Join updates: proxy bypass, Webex API FQDN override

One-Touch Join has the following improvements:

  • You can now elect to bypass a configured web proxy for One-Touch Join connections to the Exchange server and to Microsoft Graph.
  • You can now change the domain used to connect to the Webex API from the default if, for example, you are using Webex for Government.

Using a web proxy

Cisco Webex Cloud configuration

Kerberos authentication support One-Touch Join and Secure Scheduler for Exchange (previously VMR Scheduling for Exchange) in Exchange on-premises environments now support the use of Kerberos for service account authentication.

Enabling authentication (One-Touch Join)

Enabling authentication (Scheduling)

Japanese language support The Management Node Administrator interface can now be displayed in Japanese. Changing the display language
VMR portal user group permissions

Two new administrator permissions that are dedicated to managing user groups have been added to Pexip Infinity: May view user groups and May modify user groups.

These permissions are typically used by the VMR portal to view and update VMR settings.

Managing administrator roles

Deploying the VMR self-service portal

Administrative improvements: Improved account selection for OIDC access, background backup or snapshot creation request

This release contains the following administrative improvements:

 
  • Improved account selection for administrator access via OIDC:

    • When configuring the OpenID Connect service, you can specify a Domain hint to pass to the service as a hint to the expected login account.
    • When logging into the Management Node via OIDC you now have the ability to log out of the OIDC service and to select a different account.
  • You can now use the management command API to submit a background backup or snapshot creation request.

Managing administrator access via OIDC

Management command API

Pexip web apps

Webapp3

Feature Description More information
New features
Direct chat Participants can now send chat messages directly to other individual participants in the meeting, in addition to the existing option to send a message to all participants. Send and receive chat messages
Maximize self-view on mobile Participants on mobile devices can maximize their self-view, allowing them to see clearly the image they are sending to other participants. Self view window
Live captions transcripts Participants can now view an historical transcript of the live captions shown to them during a call. View a live transcription of the meeting
Safari background effects The background blur and background replace features are now supported on Safari browsers. Blurring or replacing your background
disconnectDestination parameters The disconnectDestination customization option now supports variables that can be replaced with contextual information about a specific call, such as the alias that was dialed. disconnectDestination
Changes in functionality
Plugin framework improvements We have made improvements to the Webapp3 plugin framework and its iframe manager concept. As part of these changes, the security of the Plugin API has been improved by making the default sandbox policy for iframes more restrictive. As a result, certain plugins (including those provided by Pexip for the VMR self-service portal, Pexip Secure Scheduler for Web, Pexip Secure Meetings for Justice and Rocket.Chat integrations) may lose functionality, but this can be mitigated by setting additional sandbox values in the plugin manifest. For full instructions, see the Pexip developer portal.  

Webapp2

There are no significant new features in Webapp2 in Pexip Infinity version 37.

Pexip Infinity v37 changes in functionality

Feature Description More information
VMR Scheduling for Exchange renamed as Secure Scheduler for Exchange The VMR Scheduling for Exchange feature has been renamed Pexip Secure Scheduler for Exchange, to distinguish it from the Pexip Secure Scheduler for Web product. This change is reflected in the Pexip Infinity Administrator interface. Pexip Secure Scheduler for Exchange
Client registrations use IdP display name When using an Identity Provider to authenticate client registrations, if a Display Name Attribute Name (SAML) or Display Name Claim Name (OIDC) is configured, the value returned by the IdP is provided to the client to use as its display name. If this is blank, the registered alias is used as the display name. Authenticating registrations using Identity Providers

Planned changes / actions required

Feature Description More information
Remove support for VMware ESXi 6.7 Support for VMware ESXi 6.7 will be removed in a future release. When this occurs, Pexip will support VMware installation on ESXi 7.0 and 8.0. Configuring VMware for Pexip Infinity
Use of application impersonation in One-Touch Join and Secure Scheduler for Exchange

In a future release we will remove the OAuth (delegate access with a service account) Authentication method option when configuring a Secure Scheduler for Exchange Integration.

This is because from February 2025 Microsoft disabled Application Impersonation role assignments to service accounts (for more information, see Microsoft's announcement). Therefore:

 
Deprecation of password-based authentication for the Teams Connector CVI application

Certificate-based authentication (CBA) is now the default method to authenticate the Teams Connector CVI application towards MS Graph. You can still use the previous password-based authentication method, but we plan to deprecate it in a future release, thus we recommend using CBA for new installations, or migrating to CBA as soon as practicable when upgrading existing deployments.

Migrating (upgrading) an existing Teams Connector using password-authentication to CBA
Deprecation of v1 legacy themes We plan to deprecate legacy style "version 1" themes in a future release. If you still use v1 themes you should plan to move to using "version 2" themes instead, which have been available since version 18 of Pexip Infinity. Customizing conference images and voice prompts using themes