BigBlueButton 3.0.21 released!

[Anton Georgiev]

We are pleased to announce BigBlueButton 3.0.21!

This iteration of BigBlueButton 3.0 contains a couple of security fixes, and some client and core improvements.

We recommend administrators to update at earliest opportunity!

Linked is a list of the pull requests in this iteration, grouped by component.

Link to installation command / instructions / features : https://docs.bigbluebutton.org/3.0/new-features

The full release notes are here
https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/releases/tag/v3.0.21

To try out 3.0.21, visit
https://demo.bigbluebutton.org/

If you want to report any potential security issues with BigBlueButton, please check https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/security/policy#reporting-a-vulnerability

As always, we welcome feedback on this latest update.
Anton and team

[Victor Jacobson]

Will it be valid just run "apt update && apt upgrade"? I did it before and it seems worked fine.

Could you suggest the best way of updating bbb server. Will appreciate any explanations.

Best regards.

чт, 29 янв. 2026 г., 23:00 'Anton Georgiev' via BigBlueButton-dev <bigblueb...@googlegroups.com>:

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[Jean Pluzo]

Hi Victor,

even though it might have worked for you in the past, this is not recommended.

As you can see in these lines in the install script, apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade arerun at least once during the installation process.
In my experience I have done apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade all the time, but there cannot be any BBB packages wanting an update (bbb-*). If you see any bbb-* packages wanting an update/upgrade you should run the bbb-install.sh script or else you're gonna have a bad time.

Regards,

J.