December 2024
New features
- New ingress edge location network for higher and more reliable throughput (currently on secondary ingest)
Improvements
- Updated Reporting (read-only) role (reference)
- PDF Reports: Improved report generation reliability; improved Y Axis representation of attendee numbers
- Improved reverting of trimmed recordings
- Added support for VTT files that begin with a 1-hour offset (T:01:00)
- Improved ingress resiliency
- Improved stream selection for previewing of multilingual events
- Improved VOD playback with server-based Classic Enterprise CDN
November 2024
New features
- Dictionaries for improved live transcription accuracy (preview)
Improvements
- Updated OBS profile
- More detailed encoding recommendations
- Increased tolerance for long keyframe intervals
- More resilient recording and thumbnail generation
- Improved PDF report generation speed for large events
- Support transcription for clips over 2 GB
- Improved embedding support for Single Sign-on via SAML
October 2024
New features
- Live Producer now shows multi-lingual stream status
- SAML claims can now be used to auto-populate attendee registrations
Improvements
- Improved poster quality
- "(Copy)" suffix when duplicating events
- Q & A tool: Resolved an issue where the editing modal closed as questions were updated by other users
- Q & A tool: Improved display of hyperlinks in questions export
- Re-enabled image upload in new richtext editor
- Warn about sending multiple emails when sending reminders
- Resolved issues with download buttons not working
- Improved audiocast resiliency
- Resolved posting of questions with blocked third-party cookies
September 2024
New features
- Duplicate events
Improvements
- Quicker display of live subtitles
- Resolved playback errors for trimmed media
- Security improvements
July 2024
New features
- Add back-office notes to attendee questions
- Quick access to Asset Management from Organizations
Improvements
- Improved subtitle display on smaller screens
- Q&A tool: Resolved issues with fullscreen mode
- Improved recording creation and playback
- Resolved stream locking issue where stream could not be restarted quickly
- Live Producer: Resolved issues with auto-publish button
- Aligned permissions for accessing surveys as described under User Roles
- Fixed sporadic logout when administering multiple events in parallel
- Updated richtext editor
- Performance improvements
June 2024
New features
- "Control playback speed" option shown by default for all recordings
Improvements
- Hive integration: Use a smaller set of stream renditions, automatic unmuting
- Migrated to TLS 1.3 cipher suites
- Improved survey result performance
- Fixed slide / stream language selection when selecting specific languages
- Allow videos to be replaced more than once
- Improve slide synchronization when joining event early
- Improved question locking
- Show attendee minutes in assets analytics
- Resolved custom thumbnail support
- Improved secondary encoder fallback
- Improved Audiocasts
May 2024
Improvements
- Updated Adeus Integration
- Updated password complexity requirements
- Resolved editing of locked questions
- Increased length of displayed asset titles
- Instant display of live subtitles
- Resolved issues with Q&A Question Card modal in fullscreen
April 2024
New Features
- Allow to add mandatory survey questions
Improvements
- Improved search in asset management
- Performance improvements
- Extended iCal time zone support
March 2024
New Features
- AI-powered Live transcription and translation is now available to all subscriptions without additional charges
Improvements
- Improved transcription reliability
- Q & A tool styling improvements
- Streamlined upload in Edit Layout
- Improved thumbnail display on pause
February 2024
New Features
- Delete questions from the 'Answered' column
- Asset management: Video replacement
Improvements
- Removed old/new experience switcher for the Q & A tool
-
Webcam producer: More consistent blur experience, removed technical metrics
- Updated analytics maps
January 2024
January 2024
Improvements
- Asset Management: Support audio clips, extended format and resolution support
December 2023
Improvements
- Backend Chat function and Media library: Improved display and performance on iOS
- Video on demand: Improved slide synchronization
- Event settings: Improved language selector
- Q&A-Tool: Display settings remain even after refreshing the page
- Live transcription: Subtitles are now displayed in SlideSync IFRAMEs
- Improved transcoding infrastructure
November 2023
Improvements
- Backend Chat function: Push Notifications for chat messages.
- Live transcription and translation: Improved quality of transcription and synchronization.
- Event settings: Improved overview of settings.
October 2023
Improvements
- Backend Chat function: Improved full-screen mode and static color assignment to each user.
- Registration: Improved spam protection performance.
- Live transcription: Improved localization.
September 2023
Improvements
-
Backend
Chat: Links are now clickable!
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Q&A-Tool:
Fixed display issues for users with different roles.
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Registration:
Improved spam protection for event registration and sign-up.
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Improved
localization of player tooltips.
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Improved
campaign tracking.
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Improved
size of custom email logos for macOS and iOS.
August 2023
New Features
- Excel export of usage statistics at organization level
- Automated live transcription: improved performance
- Backend chat function: Replacing of chat icon
Improvements
- Analytics: Improved visualization of countries in the world map
- Q&A-Tool: Improved display of Q&A-Tool with different access permissions
July 2023
Improvements
- Event settings: New design of the input field for languages.
- Backend chat function: The chat history now automatically scrolls to the last message when new messages are sent.
- Analytics: Video Player technology has been removed from tracking
- Q&A-Tool: Special characters and names of questioners are now decoded correctly.
- Live transcription: Subtitles are automatically added to the recording after the livestream is stopped.
- Live transcription: Better performance in the display of the transcriptions.
June 2023
Improvements
- Q&A Tool: Question editing is now signalled to other moderators.
- Q&A Tool: Set the new Q&A-Tool as default and added tooltips to the question action buttons (trash, undo, publish).
- Surveys: Simplified survey options dropdown.
- Surveys: Use correct target language for non-localised languages (e.g. English subtitles) in the attendee view.
May 2023
New features
- Hive P2P integration for live streaming.
Improvements
- Analytics: Video player technology is no longer reported in PDF export (always HTML 5).
- Q&A-Tool: Introducing a new question editing modal.
- Survey: Improved navigation from survey settings to the survey menu.
- Improved event asset upload by supporting files up to 20 GB.
- Removed Flash Media Live Encoder (FMLE) support.
April 2023
New features
Automated live transcription and translation
SRT ingest
Improvements
- Analytics: Providing a new PDF report with a 16:9 layout, including all key information and detailed views.
- Improved the account unlock process.
- Listen by phone: enabled for webcasts.
- Removed the phone ingest encoding method – now integrated into microphone / webcam encoding.
- Countdown: Improved usability and added Live Producer widget.
- Layout editor: Always show first slide of the active slide set.
- Video on demand: auto-play for video is deactivated and slide navigation is improved.
March 2023
Improvements
- With default browsers now supporting the full range of video playback and capture, we have removed the system test from the backend page
- Improved the editing of questions in the new Q&A-Tool and added question push message function
- Added US-based phone number for listen and speak by phone
- Improved fallback scenario for ECDN customers
- Improved performance of SlideSync embeds
February 2023
New features
- Show survey results to attendees.
Improvements
- Listen by phone: Simplified configuration, extended live analytics.
- Improved Audiocast Player and Slide view when going live.
- Fixed fullscreen mode on iPhone when event is an audiocast.
January 2023
New features
- Listen by phone: allows attendees to dial in to the event by phone. This allows the attendee to follow the event listen-only
- New Apps menu to list future integration options to external apps
- New countdown feature to activate a timer in the attendee view, e.g. during a coffee break
- New billing view for organizations with sub-accounts
Improvements
- Removed Internet Explorer from the list of supported browsers
- Improved ECDN server load-balancing
- Improved video playback and fallback
- Made organization analytics accessible for all authorized users
- Better iCal support in Apple Mail on iOS
- Improved resizing logic for video only events
- Fixed bug: Event Manager is now able to remove permissions on event level