Release notes
Release dates
- UAT: July 5 - 5:00 PM CEST
- PRD V3.8: July 18 - 9:00 AM CEST
- PRD V3.8.1: August 5 - 8:00 AM CEST
weConnect V3.8.1
Technical improvement
Technical improvements that will help to prevent users from losing audio and video during plenaries with many participants and multiple breakout sessions. The issue is caused by the change in the new version of Chrome (v92) that decreases the limit of WebMediaPlayers loaded on one page and potentially resulting in weConnect (and any webRTC based products) not be able to load the streams anymore.
What's new in V3.8?
Breakout room feature enhancements
- It’s now easier to prepare the breakout group with all participants, even if they are not connected yet.
Invited participants who have not joined the session appear with a grey icon in the breakout participant list.
- Participants are muted by default when re-joining the main room after a breakout session ends
- Improved collaboration during the breakout session.
When using the whiteboard, participants can take a snapshot of the current screenshare in their breakout room by clicking the 
icon
- The host can now highlight participants on the wall when the breakout is not active.
- There is no timing constraint anymore when looking to highlight different breakout groups successively
- Loading breakout view speed has been increased.
- External IDs are now supported when updating a breakout chart.
Whiteboard enhancement
- More noticeable label on the whiteboard action icons
Technical improvements
- New API entry point to downgrade a participant to observer during an active session.
- A retry mechanism has been added to avoid video freeze.
Admin improvement
- It's now possible to search for institutes by Name, Slug or ID
Bug fixes
- Breakout names don’t stay on the tile anymore after the breakout is finished
- The issue where breakout participants could be heard in the main room after reconnecting is now fixed
- The issue which prevented the teacher content from being shared due to maximizing sources in the operator user interface is now fixed
- Participants can now hear each other when changing the tile node configuration during the session
- It’s not possible anymore for a user to update private breakout charts which have been created by other users
- Users assigned in multiple user groups are not moved to unassigned anymore when applying a breakout chart.
- "Send password reset email" button works again
- weConnect now support again earlier versions of Safari (<14).
- The on-air label doesn’t appear anymore when hide active speakers is enabled
- Help button is now leading to the weConnect knowledge base
- After creating a session via the 'Use a room' button, the participant is now able to invite other participants or the instructor.
- Content sources now have a fixed order in the UI and don’t move around when transitioning
- Main Content
- Your own share (in breakout)
- Whiteboard
- Camera Managers - teacher camera
- Remote teachers
- Camera Managers - room camera and others
- Mosaic
Known issue
- Panopto recording settings become invalid after 1 month.
Technical information
Node firmware: v2.1.2-b127
The latest version of the Barco Pairing Tool: v2.4.1
Prerequisites:
The 3.8 update requires the software on the display nodes to be upgraded to v2.1.2-b127 to make full use of the new features and have the latest fixes. You can control when to allow this update by disabling the “block automatic devices updates” option in the “general” tab on the admin interface. Disabling this feature will allow devices to start upgrading, typically at night. You can test this new v2.1.2-b127 version before to enabling a full roll-out by executing a force upgrade action on individual devices from the device tab in the admin interface, even if automatic updates are blocked.
Please check the software version of spare devices: if the software version is too old (before v1.8) they will potentially need to be flashed with more recent software. It is best to connect spare display nodes every 6 months to keep the software up to date using the automatic update mechanisms.
