Release notes for November 28, 2021

Release notes for Zoom PWA

General features
- Relocation of hardware acceleration settings
  Settings controlling use of hardware acceleration for incoming and outgoing video are relocated to the web client settings window, freeing up space on the meeting toolbar.
Meeting/webinar features
- Wider availability for Gallery view
  Gallery view will be available for use on more devices with lower-end hardware. Gallery view can be disabled by users if they experience low performance.
- Compatibility enhancements for Smart Gallery
  Various enhancements for how the web client handles the multi-stream Smart Gallery view from a Zoom Room, such as moving all Zoom Room participants into a Breakout Room together, in-meeting chat messages are sent to the Zoom Room as a whole (instead of sent to individual members), and assigning the Zoom Room host controls, rather than an individual participant.
Webinar features
- Order Q&A chronologically or by upvotes
  User submitted Q&A questions are sorted by default chronologically, with the most recent appearing at the bottom of the list. The host and panelists can also sort the questions by number of upvotes, to prioritize more popular questions.
- Guest indicator for submitted Q&A
  Questions submitted by external attendees in a webinar will be labeled with the Guest marker, to make it clearer which questions are internally or externally submitted.

Minor bug fixes
Security enhancements
Resolved an issue for a subset of users regarding difficulties joining breakout rooms

Device management feature
- Zoom desktop and mobile clients management
  Account owners and admins can remotely manage their Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS and Android devices and Zoom clients. They have the ability to create groups to enroll devices in Zoom Device Management (ZDM), remove devices from a group, assign policies to device groups from the web portal, control parameters of relevant policies, view clients within a group, and create new groups or delete existing groups. This feature requires version 5.7.6 or higher, and must be enabled by Zoom.

Support for scheduling with custom join before host time limit
When scheduling a meeting with join before host enabled, the Google workspace add-on uses the default time value you have saved in your Zoom web portal settings, to allow meeting participants to join 5, 10, or 15 minutes before the scheduled start time.

Quick schedule button removed from Appointment schedule event type
The quick schedule button was removed from the new Appointment schedule event type in Google Calendar because a Zoom meeting can’t be scheduled properly from this event type.