What's new in version 14?

• We have increased the relative size of video images and reduced the amount of black space.
• Thumbnails of participants entering the stage will now fade into place (previously they slid in from the side).

You can now configure Virtual Meeting Rooms and Virtual Auditoriums to show the name(s) of the participant(s) who are being shown in the main video. Names will be displayed at the bottom of the participant's video.

Pexip Live View (Status > Live View) is a new interactive graphical report that shows the current status of your deployment, including load on Conferencing Nodes and conferences taking place.

Minor changes have been made to the conference graph to align it with the new Live View.

Pexip Infinity now includes a new Test Call Service. This provides a test loop that allows users to check the quality of their video and audio, and verifies that they can connect to the Conferencing Node.

On upgrade to version 14, a single default test service with the name "Test Call Service" and the alias "test_call" is automatically added to your system configuration. (If an existing conference or alias exists with those names, they will not be reassigned to the new service.) You can add further test services and aliases as necessary, and configure them via themes if required.

You can configure Call Routing Rules to only allow devices that are registered to Pexip Infinity to be able to make calls via the Pexip Distributed Gateway. This provides greater security and control over the devices that can use gateway resources.

Local policy allows you to manipulate service configuration and media location data (that has been provided either via the external policy API, or has been retrieved from Pexip Infinity's own database) by running a jinja2 script against that data.

Local policy and external policy are configured via policy profiles (Call control > Policy profiles) and a policy profile is than assigned to a system location.

On upgrade to version 14, any existing external policy servers are converted into policy profiles.

Pexip Infinity now supports the H.264 High Profile codec. The H.264 High Profile codec can provide HD video quality with reduced bandwidth requirements on H.264 connections.

This codec is disabled by default. To enable the codec, go to Platform configuration > Global settings and, in the Codecs section, move H.264 High (mode 1) into the list of Chosen Codecs. For optimal interoperability results, only enable H.264 High (mode 1) — leave H.264 High (mode 0) in the Available Codecs list.

Pexip Infinity now supports sending and receiving content to and from Skype for Business clients using VbSS.

This is a "tech preview" feature and is currently only supported when the Skype for Business client is either calling another endpoint via the Pexip Distributed Gateway, or calling into a Virtual Meeting Room or Virtual Auditorium.

Default: disabled.

References to "Lync" on the Pexip Infinity Administrator interface have been updated to also refer to "Skype for Business", specifically:

• "Lync servers" are now called "Lync / Skype for Business servers".
• The "Lync (MS-SIP)" protocol (used in Call Routing Rules and when dialing out) is now called "Lync / Skype for Business (MS-SIP)".
• In Call Routing Rules the "Lync AVMCU conference direct (not via Virtual Reception)" call target is now called "Lync / Skype for Business meeting direct (not via Virtual Reception)", and the "Lync clients or Lync AVMCU conferences via a Virtual Reception" call target is now called "Lync / Skype for Business clients, or meetings via a Virtual Reception".
• The "Lync MSSIP domain" (used in global settings and system location configuration) is now called "Pexip Infinity domain (for Lync / Skype for Business integration)".
• Global setting "Enable Lync auto-escalation" is now called "Enable Lync / Skype for Business auto-escalation".
• "Lync conference lookup location" on a Virtual Reception is now called "Lync / Skype for Business meeting lookup location".

(Note that all API parameter/field names are unchanged.)

There have been minor updates to the management API:

• It now allows filtering of devices ('device' resource) by the owner email address ('primary_owner_email_address' field).

You can now:

• from each of the Service configuration pages, view which themes are associated with the services, and sort the list by theme
• view the number of services to which a particular theme has been applied.

You can now view the time at which a particular service was created. This information is shown via the Administrator interface on the edit page for each service. This applies to:

• Virtual Meeting Rooms
• Virtual Auditoriums
• Virtual Reception
• Automatically Dialed Participants
• Device aliases

This release includes several security-related modifications:

• TLS connections no longer use Triple DES or MD5.
• The security wizard (used when deploying Pexip Infinity in secure mode):
  • allows you to disable TLS 1.0
  • allows you to disable Anonymous Diffie Hellmann key exchange for outbound SIP/TLS
  • no longer allows you to enable SSL 3.0.