Release notes for May 22, 2022

• Release notes for the PWA
• Release notes for Zoom Phone

Note: The Web, Outlook add-in, and Zoom Events releases originally scheduled for May 22, 2022, have been moved to May 21, 2022.

Release notes for the PWA

New and enhanced features

• General features
  • Support for Stay signed-in
    Users signing in to the PWA may choose to stay signed into the application for a longer period using their selected sign-in method, as allowed per their organization’s policies.
  • Enhanced external authentication
    When signing-in and being redirected to external authentication, the authentication and redirect back to the PWA is improved to be more consistent and smooth.
• Meeting/webinar features
  • End-of-meeting feedback survey
    The PWA/web client shows the same end-of-meeting feedback as used in the desktop client. This allows admins to collect user experience data from meetings joined/hosted on the web client. This will follow the Display end-of-meeting experience feedback survey option in web settings.
• Meeting features
  • Enhancement to Waiting Room participants order
    Hosts can choose to display the participants currently in the Waiting Room in either chronological or alphabetical order. This is set in the Waiting Room customization settings in the web portal.
  • View Breakout Rooms activities from main session
    Hosts can get an idea of how active their breakout rooms are by viewing the list of open breakout rooms. Each participant in those breakout rooms will show their current video and audio status, if they are sharing their screen, and any active reactions or nonverbal feedback.

Resolved issues

• Minor bug fixes
• Resolved an issue regarding in-meeting chat messages not auto-scrolling with each new message

Release notes for Zoom Phone

Changes to existing features

• Opt in to new Common Area Experience
  Zoom Phone is introducing an updated workflow for managing common area phones, analog telephone adapters (ATAs), and Zoom Phone Appliances in the web portal. On May 22, 2022, account owners and admins will see a pop-up with a link to further information and will be given the option to switch to the New Common Area Experience (or choose to remain on the current admin experience). Any new Zoom Phone accounts, from May 22, 2022 onwards, will utilize the new Common Area Experience automatically and no further action is needed. On January 1, 2023, Zoom will automatically enable the New Common Area Experience for all customers who have not yet opted-in.
• Default carrier change for BYOC emergency calls
  Starting June 19, 2022, Zoom will automatically become the carrier for emergency calls placed from US & Canada BYOC numbers for all customers that have not opted-out of this change. If an admin does not want Zoom to be reported as the emergency carrier, please contact technical support.

New and enhanced features

• Administrator features
  • Phones and devices asset tagging
    Account owners and admin can tag their physical phone devices using the description field in the web portal when adding or renaming a device. Tagging is useful when tracking device attribution, replacement, user end support. The description field can be used for any purpose and it is searchable. This feature is optional and not mandatory.
  • Videomail transcription
    Account owners and admins can enable videomail transcription in addition to voicemail transcription for their users. Users will be able to access the transcription on the desktop/mobile client, and the Zoom web portal.
  • Enhanced recording architecture
    The Zoom Phone enhanced recording architecture provides enhanced fault tolerance and fault detection and reporting. It allows account owners and admins to notify a list of users in the event of an automatic call recording failure. Admins have also the option to terminate a call (fail closed) if a recording failure lasts more than 5 seconds. The current feature to provide a side-tone beep to indicate that call recording is in progress requires the enhanced recording architecture to be enabled. This enhanced recording architecture is currently NOT available in India and the South-America region. To enable this feature, contact Zoom Support.
  • Enhancement to phones and devices
    Account owners and admins can now select a single or a group of devices for easy troubleshooting and management of those devices. Once selected, admins can apply different actions such as reboot/restart, re-sync, and provision templates. The reboot/restart function will restart the IP Phone which is equivalent to a power cycle. A message will be displayed if a function cannot be performed due to incompatible device(s) or device status.
  • Enhancement to Zoom Phone QoS dashboard
    Account owners and admins can see a Calls tab under the Quality of Service tab showing past and active calls. They will see voice quality scores on all active phone calls, and be able to filter those calls with advanced filters for more specific information. Previously voice quality scores were available by extension only.
  • Enhancement to phone usage reports
    If managing users by groups, account owners and admins can now filter usage reports by group using the Primary Group filter. Admins using Power Pack will also be able to filter call queues to see calls answered by others under Answer by Others and missed calls under Missed Call in the historical and real time reports. Admins subscribing to receive notifications for call queues historical report will be able to choose a call queue target.
  • Enhancement to Desk phone status notification
    Account owners and admins can set up a specific device online status and be notified by email to let them know when a desk phone goes online. The notification can be set up for up to 5 devices. Previously admins were notified only when a device went offline.
• Devices
  • Certified devices
    Zoom Phone supports the following devices. Account owners and admins can add these devices to the Zoom web portal as part of the provisioning process.
    • Cisco Multiplatform (MPP)
      • CP-7811, CP-7832, CP-8832
  • New supported feature for IP phones
    The following devices now support provision templates.
    • Cisco 6800, 7800, 8800 series Multiplatform (MPP)
    • Poly Obi series adapters/VVX D230/Rove series/Edge B series
  • Enhancement to Cyberdata provisioning
    Admins can now provision two extensions for their CyberData device that supports Night Ringer. This allows the device to be assigned to up to two users.

Resolved issues

• Minor bug fixes
• Security enhancements
• Resolved an issue where UK phone numbers were showing “Emergency calling may be limited or unavailable for users”
• Resolved an issue where users were unable to add BLF keys to Keys & Positions
• Resolved an issue where some names of users appeared in the Zoom Client contacts tab but disappeared in the phone tab