Release notes for February 27, 2023

• Release notes for Web
• Release notes for the Zoom client
• Release notes for Zoom for Intune
• Release notes for Zoom Rooms
• Release notes for Outlook add-in
• Release notes for Outlook plugin

Release notes for Web

Changes to existing features

• Webinar panelist list ordered alphabetically
  The invited panelist list displays alphabetically in the Zoom web portal and any exports. Previously, panelists appeared by the order in which they were added.

New and enhanced features

• Administrator features
  • Enhancement to Communications Content storage location
    Account owners and admins can determine the region where their recordings and content need to be stored and lock that location for the entire account. By locking the region at the account level, it prevents the location to be changed at another level.
  • Availability of Meetings Q&A for Education accounts
    Account owners and admins on Education accounts can allow hosts to enable the Q&A feature in meetings.
  • On-demand watermark
    Account owners and admins can allow meeting and webinar hosts to enable or disable a visual watermark as needed during a live session. This setting is available at the account, group, and user levels. This feature must be enabled by Zoom.
  • Collect external participants’ emails for webinars 
    Account owners and admins who want email addresses from guests joining meetings hosted by users in their account to show up on their reports and dashboards can request them from those guests. Upon joining the meeting, guests are prompted for their name and email, even if they are currently signed in and do not fall under at least one criteria listed here. This setting is available at the account, group, and user levels. This feature requires meeting participants to join from client version 5.12.6 or higher.
  • Set default Team Chat channels for users
    Account owners and admins can set up to 5 default Team Chat channels, which all new and existing users will automatically be added to. The chosen channels must be public channels and users can choose to leave these default channels.
  • Admin CSV import of webinar registrants and panelists
    Admins can manage webinars on behalf of their users and import a list of registrants and panelists directly into their scheduled webinars through User Management.
  • Okta authentication for end-to end-encryption (E2EE)
    Account owners and admins using Okta for SSO can enable this feature, allowing users in their account to get a higher level of security for end-to-end encryption meetings. With Okta Authentication for end-to-end encryption, meeting participants fetch user profile data and cryptographic credentials directly from Okta. Meeting participants verify that user data provided by Zoom matches those provided by Okta, and therefore do not need to trust Zoom to faithfully distribute keys or identities. If the account has multiple associated domains, the admin can apply this feature against only one domain.
  • Customer Managed Key (CMK) fallback
    Account owners and admins can use the Zoom’s key as a backup to automatically encrypt data when their CMK key is not available. Once their key becomes available again, the data is re-encrypted with the latter.
  • CMK adds support for OCI Vault
    In addition to Amazon AWS as a supported Key Management Service (KMS) provider, Zoom has added support for Oracle OCI Vault.
• User features
  • Increased number of recurring meetings/webinars in a series
    The maximum number of occurrences in a recurring series of meetings or webinars is increased to 60, making it possible to easily schedule a weekly session for a year. Previously, hosts could only schedule up to 50 occurrences.
  • Custom watermark location
    Meeting and webinar hosts can choose where the watermark will appear, helping them avoid locations that distract or obscure the presenter or presentation. This feature must be enabled by Zoom. 
  • Enhancement to Simulive Webinar
    Simulive webinars can be managed by users with scheduling privilege.
  • Export webinar panelist list
    Licensed webinar hosts can export a list of invited panelists and interpreters for their scheduled webinar. This export includes each panelist’s email address and join URL. This feature is useful when a user other than the host, such as someone providing technical support during the session, needs to help panelists join the webinar.
  • Webinar resources enhancement: Documents  
    In addition to providing links to webinar attendees, webinar hosts can also upload files for attendees to download and view during the live session. Hosts can upload files before and during the webinar, as well as make those files visible to attendees as needed. Supported file types include JPG/JPEG, 24-bit PNG, PDF, and PPT. Hosts can upload up to 50 files per webinar and each file can be up to 15 MB in size.
• Device management features
  • Zoom Rooms Virtual Controller management
    Account owners and admins can now launch their Zoom Rooms Virtual Controller directly from Device Management, then Device List, the same way it’s done from the Rooms tab from a specific Zoom Rooms.
• Developer features
  • Cloud recording sub-settings off by default for Video SDK accounts
    For new Video SDK accounts that have cloud recording enabled, the only cloud recording sub-setting that is enabled by default is Record active speaker with shared screen. All other sub-settings are disabled by default. Previously, several cloud recording sub-settings were enabled by default, causing a high rate of file creation.

Resolved issues

• Security enhancements
• Resolved an issue where updating Zoom Rooms from device management caused the rooms to go offline
• Resolved an issue where filtering online and offline data then exporting the data was incorrect
• Resolved an issue with Zoom Rooms devices showing incorrect data in the Client by Version chart in Dashboard
• Resolved an issue in Dashboard where Zoom Rooms were showing false alerts about a certificate error
• Resolved an issue in Dashboard where the Zoom Room name was missing from an export of the Top 25 Zoom Rooms Usage by Minutes report
• Resolved an issue where users were unable to edit a single occurrence of a recurring meeting or webinar series
• Resolved an issue preventing Zoom Rooms accounts from exporting the Active Hosts report
• Resolved an issue regarding webinar source tracking links not appearing in the exported report
• Resolved an issue for a subset of users regarding custom branding in the Zoom web portal
• Resolved an issue where users received a meeting invite for each occurrence of a recurring meeting series instead of one invite for the entire series
• Resolved an issue with scheduling webinars using webinar templates in which settings from the templates were not saved
• Resolved an issue for a subset of users receiving error code 403 (“System error please try again later.”) when adding meetings and webinars to Google Calendar 
• Resolved an issue with copied meeting invitations not including clickable links
• Resolved an issue with copied meeting invitations containing HTML
• Resolved an issue regarding error code 1010 when moving users to sub-accounts 
• Resolved an issue regarding error code 1,010 when exporting the webinar registrants report
• Resolved an issue with enlarged logos on custom meeting registration pages
• Resolved an issue with not being able to right-click and copy chat messages from cloud recordings
• Resolved an issue where exported Admin Activity Logs with large file sizes were appearing incorrectly
• Resolved an issue for a subset of users with SSO receiving login error code 1006
• Resolved an issue with assigning a Manager when adding a new user to the account
• Resolved an issue for users who were unable to delete unassigned Calendar Resource via web or API

Note: The Collect external participants' emails for meetings and Cloud recording support for sign language interpretation features have been pulled from release due to issues with deployment and will be available in another upcoming release.

Release notes for the Zoom client

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

• Breakout Rooms 100 enabled for all accounts - Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS
  The maximum capacity of Breakout Rooms has been increased for all accounts, supporting up to 100 breakout rooms, with a maximum capacity of 1000 in a single breakout room or up to 1000 total among all breakout rooms (depending on account limits). This also affects the pre-assignment limits, raising them also to 100 rooms and 1000 participants. Previously, this increased Breakout Rooms capacity required Zoom enablement.

New and enhanced features

• General features
  • Activity Center - Windows, macOS
    Notifications for cloud recordings and transcripts, missed phone and video calls, received voicemails, SMS messages, and whiteboards will all be consolidated into the Activity Center. Users can view their notifications, mark them as unread, filter the displayed notifications, and control which activities provide a notification. This feature is dependent on a backend server update, currently scheduled for March 5, 2023. 
  • Zoom Network Connectivity Tool - Windows, macOS
    This tool allows users to run a series of tests on their network connection, providing insights into any issues they may be experiencing. Logs can be exported to be provided to Zoom Support for more severe issues and troubleshooting, as well as the ability to run the network test on a specific server URL.
  • Additional MSI/PLIST/GPO/MDM options
    • Allow users to access Network Diagnostics Tool - EnableDiagnostic - Windows, macOS
      Enabled by default, this policy controls the ability for the desktop client to access the Network Connectivity Tool, which allows a user to test their network connection with Zoom services.
    • Set IP address for Zoom Mesh local detection - MeshMulticastIP - Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS
      Set as 224.0.0.1 by default, this policy allows admins to specify a valid IP address to be a UDP multicast IP for Zoom apps to declare themselves and detect each other in their local sub-network (255.255.255.0). Admins can choose other IP addresses within the range of [224.0.0.1, 239.255.255.255].
    • Set network port for for Zoom Mesh nodes - MeshMulticastPort - Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS
      This policy allows an admin to specify a valid port to be used as the UDP multicast port to communicate with other Zoom Mesh nodes on the network. The default port is 36699.
    • Set network port range for Zoom Mesh parent-child node communication - MeshListenPortRange - Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS
      This policy allows an admin to choose a valid port range that will be used to set up listen sockets for connection requests between Mesh parents and children nodes. The nodes will also use this range to send signals and media data. The default port range is 18801-19800.
    • Allow external participants to connect via Zoom Mesh - EnableGuestMesh - Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS
      Disabled by default, this allows external users (not on your account) to join a Webinar through the local Zoom Mesh-enabled network. Other requirements must be met, such as the device having the minimum supported client version for Mesh connections and the associated account setting in the web portal also enabled.
• Meeting/webinar features
  • On-demand watermark - Windows, macOS, Linux
    The host of a meeting or webinar can enable or disable the visual watermark as needed during the live session. This must be allowed by account Admins and can be controlled at the Account-, Group-, and User-level web settings. This feature must be enabled by Zoom.
  • Custom watermark location - Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS
    Meeting hosts can choose where the watermark will appear, helping them avoid locations that distract or obscure the presenter or presentation. This feature must be enabled by Zoom.
  • Save my speaking language - Windows, macOS, Linux
    When enabling translated captions, the user can choose to save the selection to be used for future meetings.
  • Follow the host option always available - WIndows, macOS, Linux
    Meeting hosts will always have the option to push their view of meeting participants to others in the meeting. Previously, this was only available when a custom gallery view organization was set.
• Meeting features
  • Joining a meeting with Okta authentication for end-to-end encryption (E2EE) - Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS 
    If enabled by their admins, users can join an end-to-end encrypted meeting with identity information provided by Okta. A badge assigned to the user indicates that the information provided by Okta matches those provided by Zoom; meeting participants must review that the displayed account domain and user information are trusted identifiers.
• Webinar features
  
  • Collect external participants’ emails for webinars - Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS 
    Account owners and admins who want email addresses from guests joining meetings hosted by users in their account to show up on their reports and dashboards can request them from those guests. Upon joining the meeting, guests are prompted for their name and email, even if they are currently signed in and do not fall under at least one criteria listed here. This setting is available at the account, group, and user levels. This feature requires meeting participants to join from client version 5.12.6 or higher.
    
  • Webinar resources enhancement: Documents - Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS 
    In addition to providing links to webinar attendees, webinar hosts can also upload files for attendees to download and view during the live session. Hosts can upload files before and during the webinar, as well as make those files visible to attendees as needed. Supported file types include JPG/JPEG, 24-bit PNG, PDF, and PPT. Hosts can upload up to 50 files per webinar and each file can be up to 15 MB in size.
• Whiteboard features
  
  • Version history for in-meeting whiteboards - Windows, macOS, Linux
    Whiteboards opened or created during a meeting now include a Version History that summarizes the changes made by users. The Version History provides a list of current and previous versions, including revisions made by users such as edits, updates, deletions, and new pages. Ability to restore previous versions can be performed only by whiteboard owners.
• Team Chat features
  • Personal note enhancements - Windows, macOS, Android, iOS
    Various enhancements have been made to make the personal note feature easier and more impactful to use.
  • Consolidated notifications for channel member changes - Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS
    When users join, leave, are added by, or removed by another user, the various chat notifications displayed in the chat channel are consolidated down when there are multiple of these notifications in a given day. This provides more visual space for chat messages, while still providing the additional information when needed.
• Zoom Mail and Calendar
  • Offline mode for Mail - Windows, macOS
    When disconnected from the internet, already downloaded emails will remain accessible to users. Users can also compose new emails, reply, or forward emails while offline, which are automatically sent when online again.
  • Dark mode support for Calendar - Windows, macOS, Android, iOS
    The Calendar tab supports displaying your calendar in the dark theme.
  • Calendar support for Japanese, Spanish, French, and German - Windows, macOS, Android, iOS
    Zoom Calendar UI and settings have been localized into Japanese, Spanish, French, and German languages. Previously, only English was supported.
• Contact Center features
  • Enhancement to address book search - Windows, macOS
    Supervisors and agents can search address book contacts by name and number using the Zoom desktop client.
  • Outbound video engagement - Windows, macOS
    If configured by an admin, agents can start a video engagement with an address book contact by sending a join link using SMS or email. This feature must be enabled by Zoom.
  • UI enhancements - Windows, macOS
    Agents can resize the Profile and Engagement panels and collapse the right-side Profile panel. When resized, UI elements are responsive so that information is visible.

Resolved Issues

• Minor bug fixes
• Security enhancements
• Resolved an issue regarding Zoom Phone connection issues (code 701) when connected to VPN - Windows, macOS, Linux
• Resolved an issue when installing Skype plugin on devices set to the Chinese localization - Windows, macOS
• Resolved an issue regarding missing line breaks with manual captioning - Windows
• Resolved an issue regarding transferring a call to a Common Area Phone on your starred contacts list - Windows
• Resolved an issue regarding call queue names not being displayed properly in the German localization - Windows
• Resolved an issue regarding the Personal Note in Zoom Team Chat - Windows
• Resolved an accessibility issue when switching between participant views and content from a second camera - Windows
• Resolved an issue regarding Do not Disturb still allowing meeting call ringer audio - Windows
• Resolved an issue regarding duplicate caller IDs for incoming calls from a call queue - Windows
• Resolved an issue for a subset of users regarding status not being seen by others in the Phone tab - macOS
• Resolved an issue regarding the code snippet option not being available - Linux
• Resolved an issue regarding in-meeting chat behaving unexpectedly when a guest user joins a meeting - Linux
• Resolved an issue regarding a missing Delete option for meetings - Linux
• Resolved an issue for a subset of users regarding the Zoom app not opening properly after OS update - Android
• Resolved an issue regarding recurring meetings not appearing in the Zoom app - iOS

Note: The Collect external participants' emails for meetings and Cloud recording support for sign language interpretation features have been pulled from release due to issues with deployment and will be available in another upcoming release.

Release notes for Zoom for Intune

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

• Breakout Rooms 100 enabled for all accounts - Android, iOS
  The maximum capacity of Breakout Rooms has been increased for all accounts, supporting up to 100 breakout rooms, with a maximum capacity of 1000 in a single breakout room or up to 1000 total among all breakout rooms (depending on account limits). This also affects the pre-assignment limits, raising them also to 100 rooms and 1000 participants. Previously, this increased Breakout Rooms capacity required Zoom enablement.

New and enhanced features

• General features
  • Additional MSI/PLIST/GPO/MDM options
    • Set IP address for Zoom Mesh local detection - MeshMulticastIP - Android, iOS
      Set as 224.0.0.1 by default, this policy allows admins to specify a valid IP address to be a UDP multicast IP for Zoom apps to declare themselves and detect each other in their local sub-network (255.255.255.0). Admins can choose other IP addresses within the range of [224.0.0.1, 239.255.255.255].
    • Set network port for for Zoom Mesh nodes - MeshMulticastPort - Android, iOS
      This policy allows an admin to specify a valid port to be used as the UDP multicast port to communicate with other Zoom Mesh nodes on the network. The default port is 36699.
    • Set network port range for Zoom Mesh parent-child node communication - MeshListenPortRange - Android, iOS
      This policy allows an admin to choose a valid port range that will be used to set up listen sockets for connection requests between Mesh parents and children nodes. The nodes will also use this range to send signals and media data. The default port range is 18801-19800.
    • Allow external participants to connect via Zoom Mesh - EnableGuestMesh - Android, iOS
      Disabled by default, this allows external users (not on your account) to join a Webinar through the local Zoom Mesh-enabled network. Other requirements must be met, such as the device having the minimum supported client version for Mesh connections and the associated account setting in the web portal also enabled.
• Meeting/webinar features
  • Custom watermark location - Android, iOS
    Meeting hosts can choose where the watermark will appear, helping them avoid locations that distract or obscure the presenter or presentation. This feature must be enabled by Zoom.
• Meeting features
  • Joining a meeting with Okta authentication for end-to-end encryption (E2EE) - Android, iOS 
    If enabled by their admins, users can join an end-to-end encrypted meeting with identity information provided by Okta. A badge assigned to the user indicates that the information provided by Okta matches those provided by Zoom; meeting participants must review that the displayed account domain and user information are trusted identifiers.
• Webinar features
  
  • Collect external participants’ emails for webinars - Android, iOS 
    Account owners and admins who want email addresses from guests joining meetings hosted by users in their account to show up on their reports and dashboards can request them from those guests. Upon joining the meeting, guests are prompted for their name and email, even if they are currently signed in and do not fall under at least one criteria listed here. This setting is available at the account, group, and user levels. This feature requires meeting participants to join from client version 5.12.6 or higher.
    
  • Webinar resources enhancement: Documents - Android, iOS 
    In addition to providing links to webinar attendees, webinar hosts can also upload files for attendees to download and view during the live session. Hosts can upload files before and during the webinar, as well as make those files visible to attendees as needed. Supported file types include JPG/JPEG, 24-bit PNG, PDF, and PPT. Hosts can upload up to 50 files per webinar and each file can be up to 15 MB in size.
• Team Chat features
  • Personal note enhancements - Android, iOS
    Various enhancements have been made to make the personal note feature easier and more impactful to use.
  • Consolidated notifications for channel member changes - Android, iOS
    When users join, leave, are added by, or removed by another user, the various chat notifications displayed in the chat channel are consolidated down when there are multiple of these notifications in a given day. This provides more visual space for chat messages, while still providing the additional information when needed.
• Zoom Mail and Calendar
  • Dark mode support for Calendar - Android, iOS
    The Calendar tab supports displaying your calendar in the dark theme.
  • Calendar support for Japanese, Spanish, French, and German - Android, iOS
    Zoom Calendar UI and settings have been localized into Japanese, Spanish, French, and German languages. Previously, only English was supported.

Resolved Issues

• Minor bug fixes
• Security enhancements
• Resolved an issue for a subset of users regarding the Zoom app not opening properly after OS update - Android
• Resolved an issue regarding recurring meetings not appearing in the Zoom app - iOS

Note: The Collect external participants' emails for meetings and Cloud recording support for sign language interpretation features have been pulled from release due to issues with deployment and will be available in another upcoming release.

Release notes for Zoom Rooms

For full notes including version numbers, please see the operating system release notes. 
Windows | macOS | Appliances | iOS controller | Android controller | iPad

New and enhanced features

• Zoom Whiteboard
  • Companion Whiteboard enhancements - Win, Mac, Appliances
    Companion whiteboard users can open personal whiteboards from their desktop or mobile device. Users also can save newly created ones from the companion whiteboard to their account. 

Resolved issues

• Minor bug fixes - Win, Mac, Appliances, iPad ZR, AndroidZRC
• Security enhancements - Win, Mac, Appliances, iPad ZR

Release notes for Outlook add-in

Resolved issues

• Minor bug fixes
• Resolved an issue where Outlook stalls when adding a Zoom meeting on a macOS device

Release notes for Outlook plugin

Resolved issues

• Minor bug fixes
• Resolved an issue where licensed users received a 40-minute time limit on meetings with Zoom Outlook plugin.