Connect web app release notes

Additional Host actions

• Host participants can now prevent a participant who is waiting in the lobby from joining a meeting, by using the new Deny button.
• Host participants are now able to change the role of other participants from Host to Guest, or from Guest to Host.

Additional customization options

The following options are now customizable via the branding manifest file:

• adding support for languages in addition to those supported natively
• the link to the terms and conditions of use can now be customized globally or per language.
• masking the meeting alias in the URL after a participant has joined the meeting.

GL‑3599

The branding manifest schema is now hosted publicly (at https://branding.pexip.rocks/schema/latest/schema.json).

This enables $schema to be used in supporting editors to help build an appropriate branding object with required properties.

The Connect web apps now support sharing audio when you share your screen in a conference.

When you select Share my screen, there is a new option to Share system audio (if you share your entire screen), or Share tab audio (if you share a browser tab).

Supported on Chrome and Edge browsers only. On Mac and Linux, you can only share audio from a browser tab. On Windows you can share either system audio or browser tab audio.

A new release of the Connect web app, "Pexip Connect for Web", is now available. This release includes:

• an updated user interface
• revised join flows — one for regular users, and one for less experienced or "guest" users that guides them through their pre-call setup
• background replacement
• native support for over 20 languages; additional languages can be added by an Administrator
• simplified branding
• noise suppression
• improved troubleshooting

• WCAG 2.0 compliance (for accessibility)

• integrated support for upcoming new Pexip Infinity features.

Administrators can choose which version of the Connect web app is offered to users by default via the Global Settings page. Note that this has resulted in a change in functionality around the how the default web app is determined, and the preconfigured URLs used to access the web app.

Additionally, users themselves can elect to use a specific web app version by appending /webapp1/, /webapp2/ or /webapp3/ to the IP address or domain name of a Conferencing Node (or reverse proxy), for example:
https://meet.pexample.com/webapp3/

Secure check code

Host participants can use a new Change layout option in the side panel's Control menu. This lets you dynamically change the layout used during a conference to any of the support layout options, and to toggle the display of participant names.

A visual indicator is displayed when a new chat message is received. It is displayed against the Events tab If the side panel is open and showing the participant list, or above the button used to show the side panel if the side panel is closed.

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When receiving presentation content in an Adaptive Composition layout, the presentation stream is now shown as part of the layout mix (replacing some of the other video participants), providing the client is receiving video at a medium or higher bandwidth setting (otherwise it is displayed as one large separate stream).

You can toggle the presentation content between the "in mix" and "separate" streams via the new maximize and reset buttons in the bottom-right corner of the presentation.

Some of the icons used in the toolbar have changed:

• The icons to float and reset the video window have changed from and to and respectively.
• The icons to view a presentation in a separate window and close the separate window have changed from and to and respectively.