Release notes for April 22, 2024
New and enhanced features
- Admin features
- Support additional characters for Personal Meeting Link
Admins can use additional characters, including hyphens (-) and underscores (_) , in users' Personal Link, which is a vanity version of their Personal Meeting ID (PMI). This allows successful mapping of SCIM or SAML fields containing these characters to users' personal links, and resolves provisioning failures experienced by some users with display names containing hyphens or underscores.
Resolved issues
- Minor bug fixes
- Resolved an issue where customers were receiving Unknown error when clicking on Resend Activation Link under plan management then exclusive offers
- Resolved an issue where users were receiving the error featureID or ruleLevel is null when selecting the Allow Participants to use floating video reactions check box
- Resolved an issue where users were receiving 500 internal server error when trying to access survey results
New and enhanced features
- Administrator features
- Disable text reminders for hosts and attendees
Admins can disable and enable text messaging notifications for all hosts under their account. If disabled, no text message reminders will be sent to the host and attendees.
- User features
- Free trial for online users
Online users can self-serve a free trial of Scheduler, enabling them to evaluate the product and determine if it fits their scheduling needs. - Password change re-authorization prompt
Users can access a more prominent notification within the web and desktop app to re-authorize their calendar. This is in addition to the email notification they receive reminding them to re-authorize their calendar’s access after they change their calendar service password. A daily check is automatically executed within the backend to notify hosts if their calendar needs to be reauthorized. - New First Time Login Experience
The first time login experience makes it easier for first time users to learn how to use Zoom Scheduler. - Routing Forms
Users can create a form which will allow attendees to answer questions and be routed to different booking links based on their answers.
Resolved Issues
New and enhanced features
- General features
- Improved product navigation
Users have greater control of the product tabs shown on the Zoom Web App, having greater flexibility over display order and which product tabs are always visible or hidden within the More option. Additionally, a General tab is added to the Settings window, where users can adjust the display order of the product tabs.
- Meeting/webinar features
- Updated icons and meeting visuals
The in-meeting experience is updated with new icons and other visual changes to menus and toolbars. - Exclude hosts and panelists from survey participation
A new web setting can prevent individuals with hosting roles from participating in surveys, streamlining the administration process and ensuring more accurate and unbiased feedback from participants. This includes the host, co-host, and webinar panelists. - Resized Q&A panel for webinars and meetings
To enhance user experience and consistency across platforms, the Q&A panel on the Zoom Web App can be resized, mirroring the functionality found in the desktop client. This improvement is applicable to both meetings and webinars. - Collapse Q&A responses
Users can quickly scan through Q&A responses and comments without feeling overwhelmed by a long list. By limiting the number of visible responses to two (unless manually expanded by the user), the display becomes less cluttered, enhancing readability and making it easier for users to focus on the content. - Enhanced Q&A viewing experience
A new Q&A viewing experience will be introduced, allowing users to interact with specific questions without being automatically redirected due to frequent rearrangement triggered by upvotes. Additionally, the logic for reordering the list of questions has been modified to enhance the user experience. The list will automatically sort by the number of upvotes in the following scenarios:
- Opening the panel: When a user loads the Q&A panel by clicking the toolbar button, and the Upvote option is already selected.
- Changing the order by option: When a user switches from "Most Recent" to "Most Upvotes," the sorting will be triggered automatically upon window refresh.
- Manual refresh: Users can manually force a refresh by clicking the refresh button at the top of the window.
- Memory usage statistics
Users on supported browsers can open the Statistics tab of the settings window and view memory usage information. This is only available when connected to a meeting or webinar.
- Meeting features
- Support HDMI sources for Zoom on Google Meet devices
Users can share content directly from their computer through an HDMI connection into a Zoom Meeting being conducted on a Google Meet device. - Support for expanded remote control settings regarding external participants
The Zoom Web App supports recent changes to web settings to control the use of the remote control feature when external participants are present, which includes preventing guests from controlling other guests’ screens and preventing internal users from controlling a guest's screen. - Support for auto-move to/from Waiting Room
Admins have additional Waiting Room customization options, allowing them to automatically move participants to the Waiting Room if the host or alternative host leaves, as well as automatically admit those participants back into the meeting when the host or alternative host returns. The Web App better supports this feature with improved messages and notifications for participants being moved to/from the waiting room.
- Webinar features
- Full emoji suite support for Webinar Reactions
Similar to Meeting Reactions, Webinar Reactions are able to utilize the full suite of available emojis, in addition to the 6 standard emojis. Availability of all emojis versus the standard set can be controlled at the account, group, and user level settings page. - Removed email field for webinars not collecting emails
For webinars not collecting attendees’ email addresses, meaning registration is not required and the Include email address in attendee report setting is disabled, attendees joining the session will no longer be prompted to enter an email address. - Customized waiting room for Webinars
Hosts and account admins can customize the waiting room experience for webinars, allowing customization of the image, text, and other waiting room assets that attendees see before joining each session and providing a more engaging and branded joining experience for attendees. These custom assets can be saved to webinar templates for reuse. Additionally, hosts can also view the number of attendees waiting to join while the webinar is in practice mode, allowing them to decide when it is the best time to end practice mode and allow attendees into the webinar. This feature will be rolling out to accounts over the next months.
- Phone features
- Obfuscate sensitive data during a call
Account owners and admins can conceal sensitive data during calls by implementing the Obfuscate sensitive data during a call setting at the account, site, group, and user levels. When enabled, users pressing a dial pad key on the screen or keyboard during a call will mute the client DTMF tones, displaying asterisks instead of the actual numbers for enhanced security.
- Zoom Contact Center features
- Remote Control for Zoom Contact Center supporting UAC prompts
Agents can control the User Account Control (UAC) prompt that may be displayed by Windows during a web remote control session. Agent interactions include viewing and entering their admin username and password to successfully execute their support operations. Additionally, Zoom Contact Center allows you to set configuration policies for the remote control app to help enhance access security. - Zoom Apps support within Zoom Contact Center
Agents using Zoom Contact Center through the Zoom Web App can access relevant Zoom Apps to more efficiently access other apps during the interaction and resolve issues quicker. The Zoom Web App's display and switching rules for Zoom Apps, such as orientation, sizing, pop-out, and landscape, follow those of the desktop client. Additionally, data and user interface synchronization between the Zoom Web App and desktop client is now simultaneous on both platforms. Previously, Zoom Apps were only accessible within the Zoom Contact Center desktop client experience.
Resolved Issues
- Minor bug fixes
- Resolved an issue where a ZCC agent is unable to see dialog boxes that open on Windows computers when asking for admin credentials
- Resolved an issue where the auto join audio feature, when enabled, would not display the auto join audio dialog
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.
Note: This release is only for Windows only.
New and enhanced features
- Meeting features
- Support for additional characters in Personal Link - Windows
Admins can use additional characters, including hyphens (-) and underscores (_) , in users' Personal Link, which is a vanity version of their Personal Meeting ID (PMI). This allows successful mapping of SCIM or SAML fields containing these characters to users' personal links, and resolves provisioning failures experienced by some users with display names containing hyphens or underscores.
Resolved Issues
Resolved issues
- General fixes
- Minor bug fixes
- Security enhancements
- Bandwidth limits incompatibility with Zscaler
An issue has been fixed where network bandwidth limits were not being applied when using a Zscaler proxy.
- Linux fixes
- Device unresponsive when video rendering increases
An issue was reported where thin clients could become unresponsive due to a combination of factors resulting in a significant increase in the processing required for video rendering. - Video tracking lost when returning to Webinar Backstage
An issue was found when a panelist joined a webinar and moved from backstage to the live webinar area and then to backstage again. On the return to the webinar backstage, the video was unresponsive when the user adjusted the window size or position.
New and enhanced features
- General features
- Support for Music App and Computer Audio
For VDI participants joining a meeting where the Zoom-created Music App is being used, the VDI client and plugin supports listening to music from the Music App. These changes also support the ability to hear when another participant is sharing Computer audio from the Advanced Share options.
- Meeting and Webinar features
- Virtual background support for HP T655s
HP T655s with an AMD R2314 processor are added to the allowlist to support virtual backgrounds.
Resolved issues
- General fixes
- Minor bug fixes
- Security enhancements
- Bandwidth limits incompatibility with Zscaler
An issue has been fixed where network bandwidth limits were not being applied when using a Zscaler proxy. - Share frame rates below 5 FPS
An issue was reported where share session frame rates below 5 FPS were not applied. The issue affected all previous releases and has been resolved.
- Linux fixes
- Device unresponsive when video rendering increases
An issue was reported where thin clients could become unresponsive due to a combination of factors resulting in a significant increase in the processing required for video rendering. - Video tracking lost when returning to Webinar Backstage
An issue was found when a panelist joined a webinar and moved from backstage to the live webinar area and then to backstage again. On the return to the webinar backstage, the video was unresponsive when the user adjusted the window size or position.
New and enhanced features
- General features
- Support for Music App and Computer Audio
For VDI participants joining a meeting where the Zoom-created Music App is being used, the VDI client and plugin supports listening to music from the Music App. These changes also support the ability to hear when another participant is sharing Computer audio from the Advanced Share options. - Video optimization for Zoom Contact Center and VDI
Customers using Zoom Contact Center with a virtual desktop deployment can utilize video optimization through the VDI plugin with this release. This version of the VDI Zoom meeting client and VDI plugin are required for the new optimization. - Toast notifications for Zoom Phone audio
A new notification is displayed when Zoom detects a volume level at the start of a call that is likely too low, with a Turn up volume option to easily increase the volume. - DSCP support for Zoom Phone QoS
The VDI client supports DSCP marking for QoS tagging. Additionally, RTCP and RTP packets are transmitted using the same channel. This feature must be enabled by Zoom.
- Meeting and Webinar features
- Virtual background support for HP T655s
HP T655s with an AMD R2314 processor are added to the allowlist to support virtual backgrounds.
Resolved issues
- General fixes
- Minor bug fixes
- Security enhancements
- Bandwidth limits incompatibility with Zscaler
An issue has been fixed where network bandwidth limits were not being applied due to using a Zscaler proxy. - Share session frame rates
An issue was reported where a higher frame rate was being used when screen sharing, instead of the default frame rate of 5 FPS. This issue was reported in versions v5.17.5 and 5.17.10. The issue has been corrected and frame rates are appropriately limited to 5 FPS or less. - Outlook starting with Zoom Meeting client
An issue where the Outlook plugin for Zoom was inadvertently starting Outlook when Zoom was started. The issue was reported in version 5.17.5. - Voice messages from an iOS device not playing in Team Chat
An issue was reported where a Team Chat voice message created by an iOS device could not be played on the VDI client. - Computer audio from multiple presenters not heard in Breakout Room
An issue was reported where only the last presenter’s computer audio was heard after moving from the main room into a breakout room.
- Linux fixes
- Device unresponsive when video rendering increases
An issue was reported where thin clients could become unresponsive due to a combination of factors resulting in a significant increase in the processing required for video rendering. - Audio device selection not saved
An issue was reported where audio device selection changed in the Audio settings was not being saved when restarting the client. The issue was reported in version 5.17.5. - Video tracking lost when returning to Webinar Backstage
An issue was found when a panelist joined a webinar and moved from backstage to the live webinar area and then to backstage again. On the return to the webinar backstage, the video was unresponsive when the user adjusted the window size or position.
- HP Anyware fixes
- Video on the wrong monitor when using dual monitors
An issue was reported where the video was not displayed correctly for an HP Anyware desktop configuration using two monitors.
New and enhanced features
- General features
- Enhancement to Zoom Contact Center SOSL
The IVR search mechanism for Zoom Contact Center channels has been enhanced to use SOQL queries instead of SOSL, resulting in improved search outcomes. - Enhancement to Zoom Contact Center CTI Notes
A character limit indicator has been incorporated into the Zoom Contact Center CTI notes component on the engagement screen.
- User features
- Zoom Events Sync to Salesforce Fields enhancement
The Zoom Events registrant field mapping user interface has been enhanced to include Lead and Contact objects, alongside Campaign Member, allowing for a broader display of options.
Resolved issues
- Resolved a Zoom Events issue where attendees' data was not synching properly
- Revolved a Zoom Phone issue where the default text was overwriting the subject line input provided by users
- Resolved a Zoom Meetings issue where the external meeting page stopped working
- Resolved a Zoom Webinars issue where attendees' data were not synching when joining as guests
- Resolved a Zoom Phone click-to-call functionality issue in the Salesforce mobile app
- Resolved a Zoom Meetings issue to allow meeting details to correctly be copied into the event description field
- Resolved a Zoom Phone issue where notes were disappearing during a subsequent call when Auto Save Log was disabled
- Resolved a Zoom Contact Center issue where the end time session displayed the incorrect date for completed voice engagement