Release notes for September 5, 2023
Changes to existing features
- Zoom IQ feature suite renamed as Zoom AI Companion
Zoom’s AI-powered features, such as Meeting Summary, Team Chat Compose, and other upcoming features, are rebranded under the Zoom AI Companion name. As part of this rebranding, associated web settings, descriptions, prompts, and other mentions are updated to be aligned with the new name. - In-meeting request/self-enablement of Meeting Summary and AI Companion
Meeting participants can potentially request the Meeting Summary or AI Companion features be enabled while in a meeting, even with the associated web setting disabled. If the host is an admin, the host can immediately enable this feature for the current meeting and associated web setting. If the host is not an admin, an email request will be sent by Zoom to account admins for their consideration on whether to enable it. Additionally, admins can control the visibility of these in-meeting enablement options through web settings. - AI Companion features ending Free Trial, now generally available
The AI Companion Meeting Summary and Team Chat Compose features are ending their free trial and will now be available for all eligible accounts. All Licensed users on paid accounts will continue to have access to these features at no additional cost. - Wider Smart Recording availability to include Pro accounts
The availability of the Smart Recording feature for cloud recordings will also include Pro accounts. Previously, this cloud recording setting was only available for Business accounts and higher.
New and enhanced features
- Administrator features
- Allow users to ask AI Companion questions about the meeting
Zoom’s AI Companion transcribes and analyzes the verbal discussions in Zoom Meetings, allowing participants to ask the AI Companion questions about the meeting content that has been discussed and receive a response based on the meeting analysis thus far. This setting is available at the account, group, and user levels. With the account-level setting disabled, admins can also control the in-meeting visibility of the toolbar option and participants' ability to self-enable or request admin enablement.
Resolved issues
- Minor bug fixes
- Security enhancements
- Resolved an issue where users experienced 500 Internal Server Error (-1) when accessing webinar registration page
- Resolved an issue where when filtering invoice list by invoice/due date, invoices were arranged alphabetically rather than chronologically
For full notes including version numbers, please see the operating system release notes.
Windows | macOS | Linux | Android* | iOS*
*Note: The mobile releases require additional approval from their respective app stores and may take a few additional days to be available for download.
Changes to existing features
- Zoom IQ feature suite renamed as Zoom AI Companion
Zoom’s AI-powered features, such as Meeting Summary, Team Chat Compose, and other upcoming features, are rebranded under the Zoom AI Companion name. As part of this rebranding, associated web settings, descriptions, prompts, and other mentions are updated to be aligned with the new name. - In-meeting request/self-enablement of Meeting Summary and AI Companion
Meeting participants can potentially request the Meeting Summary or AI Companion features be enabled while in a meeting, even with the associated web setting disabled. If the host is an admin, the host can immediately enable this feature for the current meeting and associated web setting. If the host is not an admin, an email request will be sent by Zoom to account admins for their consideration on whether to enable it. Additionally, admins can control the visibility of these in-meeting enablement options through web settings. - AI Companion features ending Free Trial, now generally available
The AI Companion Meeting Summary and Team Chat Compose features are ending their free trial and will now be available for all eligible accounts. All Licensed users on paid accounts will continue to have access to these features at no additional cost. - Wider Smart Recording availability to include Pro accounts
The availability of the Smart Recording feature for cloud recordings will also include Pro accounts. Previously, this cloud recording setting was only available for Business accounts and higher.
New and enhanced features
- Meeting features
- Ask AI Companion questions about the meeting - Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS
Zoom’s AI Companion transcribes and analyzes the verbal discussions in Zoom Meetings, allowing participants to ask the AI Companion questions about the meeting content that has been discussed and receive a response based on the meeting analysis thus far. Admins can choose to have this option still visible in the meeting toolbar, even when the feature is disabled in web settings.
Resolved issues
- Minor bug fixes
- Resolved an issue regarding notifications not appearing as expected - Android
For full notes including version numbers, please see the operating system release notes.
Intune for Android | Intune for iOS
Note: The mobile releases require additional approval from their respective app stores and may take a few additional days to be available for download.
Changes to existing features
- Zoom IQ feature suite renamed as Zoom AI Companion
Zoom’s AI-powered features, such as Meeting Summary, Team Chat Compose, and other upcoming features, are rebranded under the Zoom AI Companion name. As part of this rebranding, associated web settings, descriptions, prompts, and other mentions are updated to be aligned with the new name. - In-meeting request/self-enablement of Meeting Summary and AI Companion
Meeting participants can potentially request the Meeting Summary or AI Companion features be enabled while in a meeting, even with the associated web setting disabled. If the host is an admin, the host can immediately enable this feature for the current meeting and associated web setting. If the host is not an admin, an email request will be sent by Zoom to account admins for their consideration on whether to enable it. Additionally, admins can control the visibility of these in-meeting enablement options through web settings. - AI Companion features ending Free Trial, now generally available
The AI Companion Meeting Summary and Team Chat Compose features are ending their free trial and will now be available for all eligible accounts. All Licensed users on paid accounts will continue to have access to these features at no additional cost. - Wider Smart Recording availability to include Pro accounts
The availability of the Smart Recording feature for cloud recordings will also include Pro accounts. Previously, this cloud recording setting was only available for Business accounts and higher.
New and enhanced features
- Meeting features
- Ask AI Companion questions about the meeting - Android, iOS
Zoom’s AI Companion transcribes and analyzes the verbal discussions in Zoom Meetings, allowing participants to ask the AI Companion questions about the meeting content that has been discussed and receive a response based on the meeting analysis thus far. Admins can choose to have this option still visible in the meeting toolbar, even when the feature is disabled in web settings.
Resolved issues
- Minor bug fixes
- Resolved an issue regarding notifications not appearing as expected - Android
*Note: This release was delayed and made available on September 7, 2023.
Changes to existing features
- In-meeting request/self-enablement of Meeting Summary and AI Companion
Meeting participants can potentially request the Meeting Summary or AI Companion features be enabled while in a meeting, even with the associated web setting disabled. If the host is an admin, the host can immediately enable this feature for the current meeting and associated web setting. If the host is not an admin, an email request will be sent by Zoom to account admins for their consideration on whether to enable it. Additionally, admins can control the visibility of these in-meeting enablement options through web settings. - Personalized speech denoise disabled
Support for the new personalized speech denoise audio profile has been disabled. This feature captures and analyzes a clip of your audio from meetings to better differentiate your voice from and suppress background noise. This feature will be considered for a future update.
New and enhanced features
- Webinar Backstage support
The webinar host and other panelists can move between the backstage area, which is not visible or heard by attendees, and the live webinar area, which is visible to and heard by attendees. Panelists backstage can still hear and view the live webinar to keep an eye on the presentation and know when to rejoin. This feature requires VDI client/plugin version 5.15.10 or greater and the host to have a Zoom Events license.
Note: There is a known issue where older clients will join for only a brief period of time before being automatically dropped. - Ask AI Companion questions about the meeting
Zoom’s AI Companion transcribes and analyzes the verbal discussions in Zoom Meetings, allowing participants to ask the AI Companion questions about the meeting content that has been discussed and receive a response based on the meeting analysis thus far. Admins can choose to have this option still visible in the meeting toolbar, even when the feature is disabled in web settings. - Support for smart virtual background with AMD Ryzen Embedded V1202B Chipset
Support has been added to automatically enable virtual backgrounds for devices using the AMD Ryzen Embedded V1202B chipset. - Zoom Mesh support for VDI-plugin child-connections
Zoom accounts utilizing Zoom VDI infrastructure can fully benefit from Zoom Mesh, as the VDI plugins can now connect to any Mesh Parent device, both standard client or VDI Plugin, as Mesh Children, alleviating extra strain on the network. - Proxy support for VDI Plugin Management for Windows
VDI Plugin Management can use system proxy settings to download new installer packages. Previously, downloads over proxy connections were not supported. - Support for multiple simultaneous virtual desktops for AVD Plugin
The AVD/Windows 365 VDI plugin is enhanced to support more than one virtual desktop connection. Previously, multiple sessions were not supported.
Resolved issues
- General fixes
- Language Interpretation Compatibility with Older Plugins
An issue was reported where Language Interpretation was disabled when a 5.15.2 or 5.15.4 client connected to any plugin older than 5.15.2. - Meeting window displayed when remote virtual desktop is locked
An issue was reported where the meeting window could continue to be displayed after the remote virtual desktop entered screen-lock state. This issue was reported in version 5.15.4.
- Windows fixes
- Display (x64) in the version string for host and plugin
When a 64-bit version of the Windows VDI Zoom meeting client or the Windows VDI plugin is installed, the version string displayed in Statistics will also include (x64). - Do not display audio prompt until user joins a meeting
An issue was reported where the user was prompted to un-mute or increase volume before joining a meeting or after leaving a meeting if the volume was less than 5%. This issue was reported in version 5.14.0. - Update Immersive View buttons
Some interface issues where the incorrect buttons were displayed in the View menu for Immersive View. This issue was reported in version 5.13.0. - Prevent minor log file creation with LogLevel set as default or 0
A change was made to prevent generating a small Wbview2agent log file when signing-in to the client and LogLevel was in the default state or configured to level 0. This issue was reported in version 5.13.0. - Missing tip message when paused share session is minimized
The Double-click to enter full screen mode tooltip is now displayed when the share session window is minimized. This issue was reported in version 5.14.0. - Always prompt for sign-in if SSO has expired
An issue was reported when a refresh token had expired, either by Zoom or customer policy, and the user was left signed-out. When refresh tokens expire, users will instead be prompted to sign in again. This issue was reported in version 5.13.0.
- macOS fixes
- Plugin Management would not work when AllowEnableLog and LogLevel were both set to 0
When the AllowEnableLog and LogLevel registry keys were both set to 0, Plugin Management would not install the downloaded VDI Plugin pkg. - Prevent empty log files for Plugin Management
An issue was reported where empty log files were created on macOS when logging is disabled. This issue was reported in version 5.15.0.
- Linux fixes
- Failed dump file generation on Dell ThinOS blocking video in meetings
An issue was reported where a failure to generate a dump file for the ThinOS VDI Plugin could result in the user unable to start their video in a meeting, even after restarting the VDI client. This issue was reported in version 5.11.9. - Failure to updates both a new avatar and background
An issue was reported when selecting both a new virtual background and an avatar while the client was downloading new admin-provided backgrounds, causing a failure to correctly update both user’s changes to the selections.