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Introducing Release 5.2.0: New Features and Improvements

Written by Justin Thomas | August 24, 2018

5.2.0 sports a new settings panel, a re-designed and more intuitive Q&A, "Important Actions" in deep red, and colored, initialized avatars for easier identification of whom you are speaking to. We finally say good bye to flash charts and replace them with fancy html5.

From here on out we will be focusing our attention on individual components of the system, to make each and every one even more awesome over the months come.

Account center

New features

  • Replace Flash with new HTML / JS charts on usage statistics pages.

Fixed

  • Fixed issue where affiliate users had access to telephony settings.
 

In-Room

New features

  • New redesign implemented on Q&A panel.
  • Added "Important action" states throughout a session, such as delete or replace buttons in Media Library.
  • New and improved design for user's avatar, adding User initials and color.
  • A new settings panel with tabs has been implemented.
  • Consistent avatar color scheme across all connected users.
  • A bigger storage capacity has been added to chats to allow longer chat history.
  • Implemented an "export history" option on the chat channel.New warning pop up message added when clicking END button in a session.
  • Improvement made to thumb panel where the wrong page was highlighted when opening a multiple page document. 

Fixed

  • Resolves issue where deleting an empty answer in polls did not allow you to save.
  • Fixed issue where avatars were not updated with user's picture in Q&A.Resolved issue where link images were displayed separately from link on chat messages.
  • Fixed issue where a horizontal scroll bar appeared in the main menu.
  • Tile and thumbnails arrangement has been improved.
  • Fixed issue where when double clicking on a Chat/Participant a blank panel appeared.

Hot Fixes

New features

  • HF942 - 07/12/2018 - r25108 - Added error detection and correction for abnormal media server behavior.

Fixed

  • HF959 - 07/12/2018 - r25108 - Fixed issue where audio did not work for a Speaker if the used device did not have a webcam.
  • HF948 - 07/12/2018 - r25108 - Fixed internal regression issue where certain language elements were not applied.
  • HF926 - 07/12/2018 - r25108 - Resolved issue where polls panel was not working properly after adding several polls.
  • HF925 - 07/12/2018 - r25108 - Resolved issue where the whiteboard drawing tools panel could not be scrolled to the bottom when using the tile view.
  • HF915 - 07/12/2018 - r25108 - Fixed issue where an Audience user could change workspace parameters via the settings popup.
  • HF914 - 07/12/2018 - r25108 - Fixed issue where tooltips were missing from 'Leave/End session' and 'Settings' side panel icons.
  • HF913 - 07/12/2018 - r25108 - Resolved issue where the 'Leave/End session' dropdown items had different capitalization.
  • HF899 - 07/12/2018 - r25108 - Resolved issue where phone users cannot be heard by web users after switching from 'I will dial-in using my phone' to 'I will use my computer microphone and speakers' mode in Chrome.