Version 22.1.0—March 2022

What's new in this release?

  • VidyoConnect for Desktop 22.1.0 ships royalty-free
  • This release supports VP9 only and is royalty-free.
  • This royalty-free version does not require an install license from the VidyoPortal.
  • Requires VidyoPortal 22.1.x or later only. Customers must upgrade to VidyoPortal 22.1.x to use this royalty-free version of the VidyoConnect for Desktop.
  • Since VP9 uses a client library, which doesn't consume a license, you no longer need to go to the Admin portal Advanced options to configure your system to stop consuming a license.
  • VP9 gets automatically set up when you upgrade to this version.
  • H.263, H.264, and H.265 codecs no longer supported
  • We no longer support H.263, H.264, and H.265 codecs.
  • We now exclusively use VP9 to compile video. VidyoConnect will only encode/decode video on a tenant that supports VP9.
  • If your client does not support VP8/VP9 codecs and you attempt to join a call:
  • You will not receive any video and this message will display: “You are connecting to an older version of our service. Your call will be audio only.”
  • You cannot enable your camera or share content.
  • Tooltips for the state of media devices
  • In this release, we added tooltips to let users know when any of their media devices—microphone, camera, speaker— is active or muted.
  • When a user hovers over a device that is muted, the tooltip displays the name of the device and this message: "Your [device type] is muted (click to unmute)."
  • When a user hovers over a device that is active (in use), the tooltip displays the name of the device and this message: "Your [device type] is active (click to mute)."
  • Start VidyoConnect conference in maximized screen mode
  • Users now have the option to always start their VidyoConnect meetings in maximized screen mode.
  • To use this feature:
  • Go to Settings.
  • In the General tab, select Always start conference maximized.
  • Less obtrusive buttons in Epic waiting room
  • If you are a healthcare customer using Epic, you'll notice we've improved the buttons in the Epic waiting rooms to make them less obtrusive:
  • Buttons now fade out after three seconds.
  • Buttons reappear when the user interacts with the screen.
  • Buttons have shadows to enhance visibility.
  • Windows 8.x deprecated
  • We no longer provide support for the VidyoConnect desktop app when it is installed on Windows 8.x.
  • While the VidyoConnect app installed in this environment will continue to work, we will not be providing any support for it.
  • VidyoConnect can no longer be installed on Windows 8.1.
  • Warning messages will continue to alert users of this deprecation.
  • CEF update on Windows
  • To improve performance, we updated the Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF) on Windows.
  • Performance improvements
  • In this release, we’ve updated internal processes for enhanced functionality and performance.
  • Remote Loki configuration.
  • Switch to SDK 2.4.

Resolved issues

The following table lists the issue we resolved in VidyoConnect for Desktop version 22.1.0.

VidyoConnect for Desktop version 22.1.0 - resolved issues

Key

Summary

NEP-16863

Users with Operator permissions now have full moderation capability and can start and stop recordings in rooms created by other users.

NEP-16368

Users who log into VidyoConnect and then, change their network interface are now able to start their TytoCare exam.

NEP-16273

On Windows with dual-core CPU, users no longer experience a 10-30 second delay when using blurred background and sharing content.
Enghouse Vidyo has improved sharing performance with a change to the logic of the available CPU resource calculation.

NEP-15109 

The compatibility issue with using VidyoConnect and Philips SpeechMike III microphone has been fixed.

Known issues

There are no new known issues for this release.