BigBlueButton 2.6.0-beta.3 released!

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Ramón Souza

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Dec 16, 2022, 7:16:10 AM12/16/22
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We are pleased to announce BigBlueButton 2.6.0-beta.3!

This beta iteration of BigBlueButton 2.6 contains several improvements in accessibility and other updates to existing features.

Note that it runs on Ubuntu Focal (20.04)

BigBlueButton 2.6-dev is under active development. While we don’t recommend setting it up in a production environment, we do encourage administrators to try out the build with others and give us feedback on our bigbluebutton-dev mailing list.

Link to installation command / instructions / features : https://docs.bigbluebutton.org/2.6/new.html

Big THANK YOU to all community members who helped for this release - both through sending pull requests and through reporting bugs or requesting enhancements!

The full release notes are here https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/releases/tag/v2.6.0-beta.3



To try out 2.6.0-beta.3, visit
https://test26.bigbluebutton.org/

Or, better yet, grab a Ubuntu 20.04 64-bit server and install the latest version yourself (it will take only a few minutes):
https://docs.bigbluebutton.org/2.6/new.html

If you want to report any potential security issues with BigBlueButton, please e-mail us at secu...@bigbluebutton.org

As always, we welcome feedback on this latest update.
Ramón

Ali Alhaidary

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Dec 16, 2022, 9:50:30 AM12/16/22
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Thank you, however, could not connect, error 1006 on https://test26.bigbluebutton.org/

Ali

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Ali Alhaidary

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Dec 16, 2022, 10:26:46 AM12/16/22
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OS ubuntu 22.04 LTS, FF 108.0 (64-bit)

Ali

sd...@distancelearning.cloud

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Dec 16, 2022, 10:53:30 AM12/16/22
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Note that it runs on Ubuntu Focal (20.04) in release notes.

 

Regards,

Stephen

Felipe Cecagno

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Dec 16, 2022, 11:58:48 AM12/16/22
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Hi, just tried with Firefox 107 and 108, with and without turn, and it worked in all cases.

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Ali Alhaidary

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Dec 16, 2022, 2:05:21 PM12/16/22
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Stephen, I was referring to the client

Ali

Fred Dixon

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Dec 16, 2022, 2:40:46 PM12/16/22
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HI Ali,

Can you try again on


and let us know if you still get the error message when joining audio.

Regards,... Fred

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Ali Alhaidary

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Dec 16, 2022, 8:00:57 PM12/16/22
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Thank you Fred, my test was on https://test26.bigbluebutton.org/ as you can see in my original post, but now I can join normally, it seems that connection issue from my side.

Ali

Fred Dixon

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Dec 17, 2022, 3:40:35 AM12/17/22
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Hi Ali,

Actually, I think it was because test26.bigbluebutton.org didn't have a TURN server, so we used bbb-instal-2.6-turn.sh to put a TURN server on the BigBlueButton server itself
  

If you join audio, check the connection status icon.  Does it now show a TURN server is in use?

Regards,... Fred



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Ali Alhaidary

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Dec 17, 2022, 4:05:50 AM12/17/22
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Hi Fred,

Thank you. The status of the connection now is:

  "audio": {
    "audioCurrentUploadRate": 68,
    "audioCurrentDownloadRate": 21,
    "jitter": 128,
    "packetsLost": 4,
    "transportStats": {
      "isUsingTurn": false,
      "address": "45.82.62.20",
      "port": 43408,
      "candidateType": "prflx",
      "selectedLocalCandidate": {
        "id": "e1db7291",
        "timestamp": 1671267595689,
        "type": "local-candidate",
        "address": "45.82.62.20",
        "candidateType": "prflx",
        "port": 43408,
        "priority": 1853751551,
        "protocol": "udp"
      }
    }
  },

So it is not using a turn server in this test, however, my previous testing was on a different connection and could be the reason...

Ali

Fred Dixon

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Dec 18, 2022, 3:54:05 AM12/18/22
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Hi Ali,

> So it is not using a turn server in this test, however, my previous testing was on a different connection and could be the reason...

Could test your previous connection, which gave errors, and let us know whether you could now connect to test26.bigbluebutton.org without errors.

Regards,... Fred


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Nelson Bartley

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Dec 19, 2022, 12:08:52 AM12/19/22
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Heyo,

 

So now that the Betas are progressing well, I was hoping we could get a few more details on the video recording solution?

 

It is offered as an alternative to the current recording mechanism, or a total replacement?

Will there be a server option to record all meeting instances automatically?

Will scalelight have any way to aggregate and store these recordings in a singular space instead of spread across all the individual servers in a cluster? (Thinking of disk space control on this one specifically, I’d imagine many instances are spun up with very little storage space).

Do we have any statistics on how big these files should be?

 

Cheers,

Nelson

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Jean Pluzo

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Dec 19, 2022, 2:50:05 AM12/19/22
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Hi Nelson,

can't answer all your questions but:
> Will there be a server option to record all meeting instances automatically?
I don't think this is a good idea, specially for Europe and the GDPR.
> Will scalelight have any way to aggregate and store these recordings in a singular space....
SL already does this. I have configured it to host the recordings coming from different BBB Servers in a single server.
> Do we have any statistics on how big these files should be?
If you're talking about the recording files it depends on the length/time of the recording. From a few MB to a few GB.

And just a side note, it would be better if you post these questions on a new thread.

 

Regards,
J.

Ali Alhaidary

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Dec 19, 2022, 8:17:55 AM12/19/22
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Thank you Fred, retesting will be difficult as I traveled from it, so sorry...

Ali

Daniel Schreiber

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Dec 19, 2022, 8:51:39 AM12/19/22
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Hi Fred,

Firefox needs to be forced to use a turn server for connections to
mediasoup due to its buggy ICE implementation. The TURN Server is not
used here. The test*.bigbluebutton.org servers seem to not have set
public.kurento.forceRelayOnFirefox to true. Without this its kind of a
lottery if firefox can connect to BBB.

/me pointing to
https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/pull/16172 which
automatically activates turn relay for firefox if a turn server is
configured.

Regards
Daniel

Am 18.12.22 um 09:53 schrieb Fred Dixon:
> Hi Ali,
>
> > So it is not using a turn server in this test, however, my previous
> testing was on a different connection and could be the reason...
>
> Could test your previous connection, which gave errors, and let us know
> whether you could now connect to test26.bigbluebutton.org
> <http://test26.bigbluebutton.org> without errors.

Fred Dixon

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Dec 19, 2022, 10:43:53 AM12/19/22
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Hi Daniel,

> The test*.bigbluebutton.org servers seem to not have set
public.kurento.forceRelayOnFirefox to true.

Just set it to be true on https://test.bigbluebutton.org (2.4) and https://test26.bigbluebutton.org (2.6).

Regards,... Fred

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Ali Alhaidary

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Dec 19, 2022, 1:56:02 PM12/19/22
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Yes, 2.6 now using turn behind a strict firewall.

Ali

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