BigBlueButton 1.1-beta now available

[Fred Dixon]

Hi Everyone,

We (the core developers) are very pleased to announce the availability of BigBlueButton 1.1-beta. 

This release offers three main enhancements:

 1. Breakout Rooms: https://youtu.be/q5N-lcocJss  (3:41 minutes)

 2. Live Closed Captioning: https://youtu.be/vDpurrMgal0  (1:23 minutes) 

 3. Faster Desktop Sharing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTFuEvmEqB0 (3:10 minutes)   

This release is built upon the excellent Ubuntu 16.04 distribution, which enabled us to simplify the install instructions (no more need to install ruby or libreoffice) and to convert the init scripts to systemd (thereby making them more stable).

The new desktop sharing is faster, captures the cursor, runs again on Chrome, and no longer needs port 9123.  

For install guide for 1.1-beta, see

  http://docs.bigbluebutton.org/1.1/install.html

For details of what is new in 1.1-beta, see

  http://docs.bigbluebutton.org/1.1/overview.html

For setup a development environment for 1.1-beta, see

   http://docs.bigbluebutton.org/1.1/11-setup.html

You'll need to setup a new Ubuntu 16.04 server to install BigBlueButton.  Why?  The 1.1 packages will not upgrade 1.0 server (which is Ubuntu 14.04).  We recommend starting with a clean Ubuntu 16.04 64-bit server that meets the minimum requirements (see install guide above).

For testing, we've been running builds of 1.1-dev on http://demo.bigbluebutton.org/ for months.  This enabled us to find and fix many issues before releasing the beta.  

Overall, you'll find this release is simpler to install and provides some core features that you would expect in a web conferencing system built for online learning.

Please let us know if you find *any* issues with this beta release.  

We'll be following this thread closely for your feedback.

Enjoy!,... Fred

  

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[Doug Gray]

Sweet I already have once setup and running with the custom code I used for it . loving the quick desktop share that great seems to run better then 1.0. setup was easy and quick no problems thanks for all your guys hard work and keep

[Fred Dixon]

Hi Doug,

Nice!!

Regards,... Fred 

On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 7:36 PM Doug Gray <ezsolut...@gmail.com> wrote:

Sweet I already have once setup and running with the custom code I used for it . loving the quick desktop share that great seems to run better then 1.0. setup was easy and quick no problems thanks for all your guys hard work and keep

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[Van Dzung Nguyen]

I've been waiting for this for quite a long time. Thank you very much, bbb team.

[Synergy LMS]

Hi Fred,

Thanks for BBB 1.1-beta version,

Today i have installed Ubuntu16.04 64 bit OS on my Local VMware player and installed BBB 1.1-beta without issues, and it is working fine, Now i have setup client development environment, during BBB- Web installation am facing issues with " gradle resolveDeps" Please find error messages in below lines,

firstuser@ubuntu:~/dev/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton-web$ gradle resolveDeps

:resolveDeps

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:

Could not resolve all dependencies for configuration ':default'.

> Could not find org.bigbluebutton:bbb-common-message:0.0.18-SNAPSHOT.

  Searched in the following locations:

      https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/bigbluebutton/bbb-common-message/0.0.18-SNAPSHOT/maven-metadata.xml

      https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/bigbluebutton/bbb-common-message/0.0.18-SNAPSHOT/bbb-common-message-0.0.18-SNAPSHOT.pom

      https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/bigbluebutton/bbb-common-message/0.0.18-SNAPSHOT/bbb-common-message-0.0.18-SNAPSHOT.jar

      file:/home/firstuser/.m2/repository/org/bigbluebutton/bbb-common-message/0.0.18-SNAPSHOT/maven-metadata.xml

      file:/home/firstuser/.m2/repository/org/bigbluebutton/bbb-common-message/0.0.18-SNAPSHOT/bbb-common-message-0.0.18-SNAPSHOT.pom

      file:/home/firstuser/.m2/repository/org/bigbluebutton/bbb-common-message/0.0.18-SNAPSHOT/bbb-common-message-0.0.18-SNAPSHOT.jar

  Required by:

      :bigbluebutton-web:unspecified

* Try:

Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output.

BUILD FAILED

Total time: 7.697 secs

Please suggest me further,

Thanks,

Madhukar

On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 8:13 PM, Kiran Suthar <sutharkir...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Fred,

Thanks for update. 

Regards

[Fred Dixon]

Hi Madhukar,

Did you recompile bbb-common-messages?  See

   http://docs.bigbluebutton.org/1.1/11-setup.html#developing-bbb-common-messages

Try the above and let us know if that gets you going.

Regards,... Fred

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[Marco Filippetti]

Hi Fred, first of all, thank you and all developers for all the hard work! BBB is amazing. We run v1.0 now, and we want to upgrade to v1.1 BETA to benefit from the added features. Question is: Is there a simple way to upgrade without having to reinstall everything from scratch? Reason I ask is because we do have a large recordings repository and our BBB is nicely integrated with Moodle, so going to a brand new deployment will be a pain. 

Thank you!

marco

[Fred Dixon]

Hi Marco,

> Hi Fred, first of all, thank you and all developers for all the hard work! BBB is amazing. 

Thanks!  

> Question is: Is there a simple way to upgrade without having to reinstall everything from scratch?

BigBlueButton 1.0 runs on Ubuntu 14.04 64-bit, whereas BigBlueButton 1.1-beta runs on Ubuntu 16.04 64-bit -- a much newer version of Ubuntu.

BigBlueButton 1.1-beta takes advantage of many of the new capabilities of Ubuntu 16.04, including

  - systemd start/stop applications (nor more /etc/init.d scripts and no need for monit)

  - packaged ffmpeg

  - packaged libreoffice

We also re-wrote much of the packaging (and added new packages) for 1.1-beta to simplify the installation.  The result is a much easier install process for 1.1-beta.  For a video walkthrough, see

   http://docs.bigbluebutton.org/1.1/install.html#installation-video

Since BigBlueButton 1.1-beta runs on Ubuntu 16.04, we expected that most users would install BigBlueButton on a new 16.04 server.  

Given the updates an the likelihood of installation on a new server, the packages for 1.1-beta do not try to upgrade from the 1.0 packages, thus there is no direct upgrade from 1.0 server.

However, the steps to upgrade a pretty straightforward.

1. Install BigBlueButton 1.1-beta on a new Ubuntu 16.04 server, see

      http://docs.bigbluebutton.org/1.1/install.html

2.  Copy over the recordings directory from the 1.0 server to the 1.1-beta server, see

       http://docs.bigbluebutton.org/1.1/install.html#transfer-existing-published-recordings

3.  Assign the 1.1-beta server the same shared secret as the 1.0 server, see

       http://docs.bigbluebutton.org/install/bbb-conf.html#--secret

4.  Change the DNS entry for the hostname for the 1.0 server to point to the 1.1-beta server

At this point, everything on your Moodle site (including recordings) should work as before.  

Also, for Moodle, you'll want to check out the latest BigBlueButton plugin for Moodle, see

  https://moodle.org/plugins/mod_bigbluebuttonbn

At the time of writing the version is 2.1.5 and is compatible with Moodle 2.6 to 3.2.  According to the overall download stats, of the 100's of plugins for Moodle, the BigBlueButtonBN plugin is ranked #5 for downloads.  

Try the above and don't hesitate to post if you run into any problems.  With the above approach, nothing changes on your current Moodle server, so you are able to easily switch back the DNS if you need to revert to the previous version during testing.

Regards,... Fred

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[Marco Filippetti]

Perfect Fred, I totally understand. Will proceed in the recommended way, thank you!!

Marco

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