new (sub)versions come out regularly and before we can take them in production we need to test them to see how they behave with our customisations. Let me open this thread as a place where we can discuss the new gems that are in the newest version, and see when and how we can best test them, and when in production.
version 2.5 is exhaustively explained here: BigBlueButton : What's New (edited: but is a Release Candidate, not an Official Version)
Before diving in, maybe @dvdjaco@elon@Yurko could remind us on what version we are currently in production? There were plans to run a dev server, or maybe tech.circle has that already without us knowing
Especially given the SSO work @elon is doing, I suppose that’s an excellent opportunity to test out the latest version? What’s your plans?
~# bbb-conf --version
BigBlueButton Server 2.3.17 (2525)
ii bbb-apps-akka 2.3.0-108 all BigBlueButton Apps (Akka)
ii bbb-config 1:2.3.0-102 amd64 BigBlueButton configuration utilities
ii bbb-etherpad 1:2.3.0-53 amd64 The EtherPad Lite components for BigBlueButton
ii bbb-freeswitch-core 2:2.3.0-32 amd64 BigBlueButton build of FreeSWITCH
ii bbb-freeswitch-sounds 1:1.6.7-3 amd64 FreeSWITCH Sounds
ii bbb-fsesl-akka 2.3.0-59 all BigBlueButton FS-ESL (Akka)
ii bbb-html5 1:2.3.0-1865 amd64 The HTML5 components for BigBlueButton
ii bbb-libreoffice-docker 1:2.3.0-60 amd64 BigBlueButton setup for LibreOffice running in docker
ii bbb-mkclean 1:0.8.7-4 amd64 Clean and optimize Matroska and WebM files
ii bbb-playback 1:2.3.0-23 amd64 BigBlueButton playback
ii bbb-playback-presentation 1:2.3.0-13 amd64 BigBluebutton playback of presentation
ii bbb-record-core 1:2.3.0-38 amd64 BigBlueButton record and playback
ii bbb-web 1:2.3.0-103 amd64 BigBlueButton API
ii bbb-webrtc-sfu 1:2.3.0-44 amd64 BigBlueButton WebRTC SFU
ii bigbluebutton 1:2.3.0-7 amd64 Open source web conferencing platform (bbb)
ii ffmpeg 7:4.2.4-1ubuntu0.1bbb2~18.04 amd64 Tools for transcoding, streaming and playing of multimedia files
ii libavcodec58:amd64 7:4.2.4-1ubuntu0.1bbb2~18.04 amd64 FFmpeg library with de/encoders for audio/video codecs - runtime files
ii libavdevice58:amd64 7:4.2.4-1ubuntu0.1bbb2~18.04 amd64 FFmpeg library for handling input and output devices - runtime files
ii libavfilter7:amd64 7:4.2.4-1ubuntu0.1bbb2~18.04 amd64 FFmpeg library containing media filters - runtime files
ii libavformat58:amd64 7:4.2.4-1ubuntu0.1bbb2~18.04 amd64 FFmpeg library with (de)muxers for multimedia containers - runtime files
ii libavresample4:amd64 7:4.2.4-1ubuntu0.1bbb2~18.04 amd64 FFmpeg compatibility library for resampling - runtime files
ii libavutil56:amd64 7:4.2.4-1ubuntu0.1bbb2~18.04 amd64 FFmpeg library with functions for simplifying programming - runtime files
ii libopusenc0 0.2.1-1bbb1 amd64 High-level API for encoding Ogg Opus audio streams
ii libpostproc55:amd64 7:4.2.4-1ubuntu0.1bbb2~18.04 amd64 FFmpeg library for post processing - runtime files
ii libswresample3:amd64 7:4.2.4-1ubuntu0.1bbb2~18.04 amd64 FFmpeg library for audio resampling, rematrixing etc. - runtime files
ii libswscale5:amd64 7:4.2.4-1ubuntu0.1bbb2~18.04 amd64 FFmpeg library for image scaling and various conversions - runtime files
2.5 is stable as of a little over a month ago (currently 2.5.2).
A few things I’ve seen:
Improved web cam features - everyone loves backgrounds
Better audio selection options
Multiple view layouts & ability to push out a preferred layout as moderator
Learning analytics dashboard
Mute users from context menu
Network statistics display/copy
These are just a few things I notice switching between a new instance I can use and the meet.coop instance - it’s entirely possible this instance has things disabled.
Somewhere - I think it was the PublicSpaces BBB @wouter - I tried what I thought was the latest BBB, and noticed one change for the worse, in the whiteboard. The whiteboard was now rebuilt, using TL:Draw components - which is good. But the line widths are narrower than in the old whiteboard. It was impossible to dfaw a fat line, which is something I often do, for highlting a slide.
However, here https://gl.de3.meet.coop is also what I thought was the latest BBB.And this still has the old whiteboard, with the fat lines.
So, what’s the status of the whiteboard, in 2.5, being discussed here? What version is Public Spaces? What version is https://gl.de3.meet.coop?
2.6 is the first release with TLDRAW. its will be released as 2.6.0 next week by project, the RC versions of this have been in limited production for the past few months.
Also have export of the annotations with the slides and finally native video formats for recording on m4v
https://meet.agaric.coop server is a bare metal server in Europe with aggressive goals to transition to fully green.
Anyone can create an account and private rooms.
This is stock BBB 2.6 with new GL V3 and Stephen has added the new video
recording format. You will see both presentation and video formats
when recordings appear.
Stephen also enabled client side auto translation which uses the CC closed captions. It supports English, Portuguese and Spanish. Just need to enable it when you join your audio and then all your talking is converted to closed captions.
There is a private internal voice engine being developed to eliminate
google, but more complex and yet to be proven if it will be as
accurate.
