Release notes for January 8, 2023
New and enhanced features
- Administrator features
- Webinar Resources
Account owners and admins can enable Webinar resources, which allows webinar hosts with a Zoom Events license to provide links to external resources for their attendees in the webinar. Hosts can review the interaction results after the webinar concludes through reporting. - Additional formatting for in-meeting chat
Account owners and admins can choose to allow meeting participants to add emoji message reactions to in-meeting chat messages, as well as reply to messages in a thread. These sub-settings are available at the account, group, and user levels. These features will not be immediately available, as they are dependent on a client release currently scheduled for January 16. - Enhancements to the Team Chat Dashboard
The Team Chat Dashboard comes with an at-a-glance view of chat usage and adoption. This gives account owners and admins relevant and insightful metrics to better understand how their organization uses Zoom Team Chat. The data is refreshed every 24 hours. Previously, the Team Chat Dashboard only provided a list of users and number of sent messages, and data had a 3-day lag. This feature will not be immediately available, as it is dependent on a backend server update currently scheduled for January 11. - Allow meeting hosts to create breakout rooms based on poll results
Account owners and admins can enable the meeting option Allow host to create breakout rooms from poll results. When enabled, hosts can choose to create breakout rooms based on the participants’ poll answers. For example, the meeting host may want to split breakout rooms based on participants who share similar interests. This setting is available at the account, group, and user levels. This feature will not be immediately available, as it is dependent on a client release currently scheduled for January 16. - Support for account, group, and user management for Meeting Connector
Account owners and admins can configure the use of Meeting Connector (MC) licensing consistently at the account, group, and user profile level. While the existing user license model (Basic, Licensed, and On-Prem) will still be available for current on-prem users by default, new accounts utilizing on-premise will use the new account, group, and user profile settings. This feature must be enabled by Zoom. - Delete stored Exchange Impersonation data
Account owners and admins can disable the Exchange Impersonation setting and delete stored user impersonation data. Previously, account owners and admins were unable to delete stored data for user impersonation. - Delete external users’ messages in Chat History
Account owners and admins can remove external users' messages in Chat History from the Zoom web portal. - Customize private channels for auto-update
Account owners and admins can create, edit, and delete customized private client version channels for their enterprise auto-update policies. Similar to Zoom’s fast and slow channels, enterprise admins can create their own channels within their enterprise. Custom private channels currently support three clients (Windows, MacOS, and VDI). This feature must be enabled by Zoom. - Define users’ client upgrade version
When users check for client updates, account owners and admins with Enterprise accounts can choose if users will update to the latest Zoom client version or to the specific version defined in the admin’s enterprise auto-update settings. - Send ICS calendar attachment along with webinar invitation emails
Account owners and admins can allow hosts to send an ICS calendar attachment along with their webinar invitation emails. This setting is available at the account, group, and user levels.
- User features
- Webinar Resources
Webinar hosts with a Zoom Events license can provide Resource Links for their attendees. This provides the ability to link to external resources, such as newsletter sign-ups, learn more pages, and others. Hosts can review the interaction results after the webinar concludes through reporting. - Creation of breakout room based on poll results
If enabled by admin, meeting hosts can choose to Create Breakout Rooms while setting up polls. If this option is selected, the host can split participants into separate, smaller rooms based on participants’ answers. Hosts can set a limit for how many participants are placed in each breakout room and move/exchange participants after launching the breakout rooms. This feature will not be immediately available, as it is dependent on a client release currently scheduled for January 16. - Enhancement to Meeting Report
In the Meeting usage report, users can filter and export only meetings where polling, survey, or registration were used. Previously, all meetings showed up even if the features were not used in the meeting. - Simulive Webinar
The simulive feature allows Webinar hosts to share a previously recorded webinar session as a video file within a live session webinar. This allows the host to start an event at a scheduled time without the need of being present and still have the ability to interact with the audience with live chat and Q&A. The host must have a Zoom Events license to have access to this feature in both Zoom Events and Webinar portals. - Send ICS calendar attachment along with webinar invitation emails
If enabled by admin, hosts can include an ICS calendar file when they send invitation emails to panelists and attendees, allowing webinar panelists/registrants to easily add the webinar to their calendars.
Resolved issues
- Minor bug fixes
- Security enhancements
- Resolved an issue where SCIM related action filters were missing from the admin activity logs
- Resolved an issue where there was a translation error on German webinar registration reports
- Resolved an issue where a dialog kept popping up in a loop when setting up on prem Outlook 2016 calendar integration
- Resolved an issue in the Dashboard where the Client Platform view displayed no results when all client versions were selected
- Resolved an issue for a subset of users wherein API endpoint for chats were missing messages and attachments
Note: The UX enhancement to the Zoom web portal fixed navigation menu was pulled from release due to late bug discovery, and will be available in another upcoming release. The Bulk add meeting registrants feature was rolled back from release and will be available in another upcoming release.
New and enhanced features
- Support for scheduling meeting with continuous meeting chat
Meeting hosts can schedule a meeting and invite contacts, which are added to both the calendar event for the meeting and the dedicated Team Chat group chat. This group chat and its messages are accessible before, during, and after the scheduled meeting. This feature must be enabled by Zoom.
Resolved issues
Changes to existing features
- DTMF option for enforcing Music mode
Participants joining via a SIP/H.323 room system, can now enable music mode via the in-meeting DTMF menu.
New and enhanced features
- Support for Immersive View
Participants joining meetings via SIP/H.323 room systems can now view participants in Immersive View when it is utilized by the host in a meeting or webinar. - Recording disclaimer when an automatic call recording is initiated by a Zoom Phone user
If a Zoom Phone user is utilizing the automatic call recording (ACR) service and joins a meeting with a SIP/H.323 room system, the room system's participants will be notified that the meeting is being recorded by the Zoom Phone user for compliance.
Resolved issues
- Minor bug fixes
- Security enhancements
- Resolved an issue where there were audio issues when joining from an H.323-based room system without encryption.
- Resolved an issue where non-video or PTSN/audio-only participants were not displayed when viewing the meeting in Active Speaker view.
- Resolved an issue where the “You are muted by host” prompt is shown to participants joining from a SIP/H.323 room system when the host starts screen sharing.
Resolved issues
For full notes including version numbers, please see the operating system release notes.
Windows | macOS | Appliances | Zoom Phone Appliances | iOS controller | Android controller | Windows attached controller | iPad
New and enhanced features
- General features
- Support for DTEN D7X 55” Android Edition devices- Appliances
- Support for Yealink A10 devices - Appliances
- In-meeting features
- Flexible active speaker view - Mac, Appliances, iPad zr, iOS zrc, Android zrc, Web zrc
When this view is enabled, active speaker view will be displayed when a remote participant speaks. Once the participant stops speaking for 15 seconds, the meeting will revert to gallery view or the background screen until another participant starts talking.
- Management features
- Use Display Name for Zoom Room in-meeting - Win, Mac, Appliances, iPad zr
Administrators can set the display name for a shared Zoom Room to be used when the room joins meetings, causing the Display Name to be shown to other meeting participants when the Zoom Room is in a waiting room, in the meeting participant list, and as the label on its video. - Upgrade Zoom Room from device - Win, Win zrc, Web zrc
Administrators can upgrade a Zoom Room from the device itself (Zoom Rooms for Touch) or Zoom Room Controller rather than using the web portal. This function can be toggled from the web portal. - Enhanced Zoom Room lockout notification and manual unlock ability - Win, Mac, Appliances, iPad zr, iOS zrc, Android zrc, Win zrc, Web zrc
Administrators can enable a “room locked” alert email after five incorrect meeting password attempts. Once the room is locked, users will see a message telling them how long they have to wait until the room is unlocked and an email alert will be sent to the designated recipients. The recipients can manually override a locked room if the meeting is hosted by the same organization that the room belongs to. To override, the recipients click “unlock room” in the email alert they receive.
- Controller features
- iOS 11 notification - iOS zrc
iPad and iPhone controllers running iOS versions earlier than iOS 11 will be notified that support for their iOS version will be discontinued in the Zoom Rooms Controller April 2023 release. Learn more about affected devices and recommended replacement options in our support article.
Resolved issues
- Minor bug fixes
- Security enhancements - Win, Mac, Android zrc, Win zrc