Release notes for August 5, 2024
New and enhanced features
- General features
- Introducing Zoom Docs
Zoom Docs allows users to collaborate and track projects easily and seamlessly. Users can draft, organize, and share materials and documents whether they are in a meeting or not. To make the most of their meetings, users can transform past and present meetings into actionable documents, wikis, and projects using Meeting AI templates. Zoom's AI Companion features further enhance efficiency by generating and translating content. While creating materials, users have access to basic editing tools, block actions, and various content types that can be added or embedded. In addition, documents can be shared directly with other users or through Team Chat channels. The feature can be enabled or disabled at the account or group level.
- Meeting features
- Enhanced AI Companion Results with OCR and Chat Messages
Zoom will be enhancing AI Companion results by incorporating screen shared content via optical character recognition (OCR) and in-meeting chat messages. This additional context allows AI Companion to create more accurate, reliable, and complete results. Administrators can manage these settings in Account Settings under the AI Companion tab in the web portal. - Allow meeting hosts to retain and access meeting transcripts
Administrators can choose to have meeting transcripts generated by Meeting Summary with AI Companion saved. Once saved, they are accessible by meeting hosts and can be downloaded as a VTT file from the list of available transcripts. These saved transcripts cannot be shared directly through Zoom. Hosts can also generate Zoom Docs from these meeting transcripts with Docs content generation and revision with AI Companion.
Resolved issues
- Minor bug fixes
- Resolved an issue where the Include the uploaded logo or banner option for a scheduled webinar cannot be successfully enabled
- Introducing Zoom Docs
Zoom Docs allows users to collaborate and track projects easily and seamlessly. Users can draft, organize, and share materials and documents whether they are in a meeting or not. To make the most of their meetings, users can transform past and present meetings into actionable documents, wikis, and projects using Meeting AI templates. Zoom’s AI Companion features further enhance efficiency by generating and translating content. While creating materials, users have access to basic editing tools, block actions, and various content types that can be added or embedded. In addition, documents can be shared directly with other users or through Team Chat channels.
New and enhanced features
- Admin features
- Display Microsoft Teams and Google Meet meetings on the Dashboard - Win, Mac, Appliances
Administrators can see when Zoom Rooms are used to join Microsoft Teams or Google Meet meetings from the Dashboard.
- General features
- Improved display of contact search results on smaller Zoom Rooms Controllers - Android zrc
The contacts user interface has been reorganized optimize the display of search results on seven or eight inch controllers screens. - Change to upcoming meeting reminder - Win, Mac, Appliances, iPad zr, iOS zrc, Android zrc, Win zrc, Web zrc
Users will not see the upcoming meeting reminder when the ability to check-in is available. It will only be displayed ten minutes before the meeting start time. - Full-screen notification for automatic room release - Win, Mac, Appliances, iPad zr, iOS zrc, Android zrc, Win zrc, Web zrc
A full screen notification will be shown on a Zoom Room's display and controller when the room is automatically released. - Configuration settings for numeric keypad when manually joining a meeting - Win, Appliances, iPad zr, iOS zrc, Android zrc, Win zrc
Users will see either a numeric-only or standard keyboard when entering meeting passcodes according to their Zoom account settings. For example, if account settings are configured for numeric-only passcodes, a numeric-only keyboard will be displayed. - Support for Sign in with Apple on Zoom for Home TV - Appliances
Users can use Sign in with Apple on Zoom for Home TV.
- In-meeting features
- Smart name tags - Win, Mac, iOS zrc, Android zrc, Win zrc, Web zrc
Zoom smart name tags highlight individual participants in a Zoom Room and display their name in the meeting video. Once enabled, Zoom will detect the meeting participant's faces and apply generic name tags (e.g. "Participant 1") or automatically apply names of the users who have pre-enrolled with an image. Smart name tags can be edited in-meeting via the Zoom Rooms controller. - Enhanced meeting connectivity information - Win, Mac, Appliances, iPad zr, iOS zrc, Android zrc, Win zrc, Web zrc
The meeting information displayed when a user presses the green shield icon on a Zoom Rooms controller or touch display now notes when the Zoom Room is connecting to a meeting hosted in the meeting host's own data center.
Resolved issues
- Resolved an issue where device operation time was affecting digital signage rooms. - Win
- Resolved an issue where received resolution was limited during simulive webinars. - Appliances
- Resolved an issue with collecting troubleshooting logs. - Android zrc
- Minor bug fixes
- Security enhancements