Release Notes

The release notes lists all new features, resolved issues, and known issues of React Web Core in chronological order.

v1.36.2

Released on February 29, 2024

Features
Added support to get all joined peer info - participants.getAllPeersInRoom()
Fixed Issues
Fixed an issue where participants are now removed from stage on reconnection

v1.36.1

Released on February 27, 2024

Features
Added optional target support to broadcastMessage - participants.broadcastMessage(type, payload, target: { presetNames, participantIds })
Added support to update participants preset dynamically - participants.updatePermissions(participantIds, permissions)

v1.36.0

Released on February 17, 2024

Fixed Issues
Stage change events are now emitted to Dyte Plugins

v1.35.21

Released on February 14, 2024

Fixed Issues
Fixed waitlisted participants metadata

v1.35.20

Released on February 7, 2024

Fixed Issues
Fixed an issue with fetching active transcriptions

v1.35.19

Released on February 7, 2024

Features
The event callbacks now have type information
Fixed Issues
Fixed useDyteClient hook to support breakout rooms changed meeting
Fixed an issue with livestream where hosts were not able to see participants accepted on stage
Fixed an issue with video middleware where they were causing video issues on webkit based browsers
Breakout rooms child rooms will now be auto-joined
Fixed an issue with webinar where request count were not consistent

v1.35.18

Released on January 24, 2024

Fixed Issues
Added missing permission checks on meeting.chat.pin(messageId)

v1.35.17

Released on January 22, 2024

Features
Stereo audio support
New API
User can now configure media quality configuration include stereo audio on DyteClient.init. Checkout the documentation here

v1.35.16

Released on January 22, 2024

Fixed Issues
Fix blank Picture-in-Picture stream on PIP resize
Performance Improvements
Updated simulcast configuration for better video performance
New API
New meeting.meta.meetingId to get the meetingId of the current meeting
New meeting.self.customParticipantId to fetch the participantId set by the customer during Add Participant REST API
Deprecated API
meeting.meta.roomName in favour of meeting.meta.meetingId
meeting.self.clientSpecificId in favour of meeting.self.customParticipantId

v1.35.15

Released on January 17, 2024

Fixed Issues
Populate meeting.ai.transcripts with previous transcripts, generated before the user joins

v1.35.14

Released on January 15, 2024

Fixed Issues
Add undefined checks on deviceId passed to meeting.self.setDevice
New API
meeting.ai.transcripts now contain customParticipantId with every transcript record
Emit kicked on meeting.participants.joined locally for a privileged users when they kick another user
New meeting.chat.pin(messageId) API to pin chat messages

v1.35.12

Released on December 20, 2023

Fixed Issues
Fix network reconnection when user disconnects while inside a waiting room
New API
New meeting.chat.sendCustomMessages for custom chat messages

v1.35.8

Released on December 15, 2023

Fixed Issues
Fixed an issue where the video would not be produced correctly in Firefox browser.
Improved webinars and livestreams reliability by handling edge cases around stage management.

v1.35.7

Released on December 11, 2023

New API
Recordings now supports Pause and resume functionality with the new pauseRecording and resumeRecording APIs

v1.35.6

Released on October 26, 2023

Fixed Issues
Firefox 110+ simulcast optimizations
New API
New DyteSelfMedia class to initialize media before from DyteClient.init
New DyteClient.init parameter defaults.autoSwitchAudioDevice allows user to disable the default behavior of switching to a newly connected audio device automatically

v1.35.0

Released on October 1, 2023

Fixed Issues
Maintain the source aspect ratio when camera device is detected as OBS (Beta)
[Webinar] Fix a race when an accepted user resend request to join stage
New API
Webinar and Livestream now both use the same Stage Management APIs
By default Dyte's media handler does not prefer virtual devices, adds a new function to override what is a preferred device and what isn't
Allow updating video resolution at runtime
New baseURI to replace the old apiBase. With this new parameter all network connections including socket connections can now be whitelisted
Render active participants as Picture-in-Picture through a simple new API
Join the meeting using meeting.join() and leave with the new meeting.leave()
Deprecated API
meeting.joinRoom() is deprecated in favour of the new meeting.join()
meeting.leaveRoom() is deprecated in favour of the new meeting.leave()
meeting.self.requestToJoinStage() is deprecated in favour of meeting.stage.requestAccess()
meeting.self.withdrawRequestToJoinStage() is deprecated in favour of meeting.stage.cancelRequestAccess()
meeting.self.leaveStage() is deprecated in favour of meeting.stage.leave()
meeting.self.joinStage() is deprecated in favour of meeting.stage.join()
meeting.participants.acceptAllRequestToJoinStageRequests() is deprecated in favour of meeting.stage.grantAccess([userIds])

v1.34.0

Released on June 9, 2023

Fixed Issues
Fixed an issue with activating / deactivating the plugin where the plugin is already in the desired state.

v1.16.x

Released on July 28, 2023

Fixed Issues
Fixed an edge case where the screen share with audio was not working as expected.
Handle a race condition which used to prevent user from joining stage in a webinar setup.
Separated the private and public chat permissions.
Fixed an issue which was adding duplicate device names on the device list.
Fixed an issue which was not allowing host to kick a participant from the meeting.
initMeeting is now idempotent. Calling it multiple times will not cause any issues.

v1.15.0

Released on June 30, 2023

Features
Added add support for quoting a chat message while reply for Chat SDK
Chat SDK now shows unread count and last message on channel list.
Participants using Chat SDK will be able to edit and delete their messages.
Fixed Issues
Fixed an edge case around file upload in Chat.

v1.14.0

Released on June 9, 2023

Features
Added self-troubleshooting features, allow users to run tests to discover issues in their calls. More details on this in the next release
Fixed Issues
Added execution locks around initClient method to prevent accidental double initialisation method calls
Handled multiple edge cases around media capture and its retention

v1.13.0

Released on May 31, 2023

Fixed Issues
Optimized mediaPermissionUpdate event to be emitted when the user grants media permission for the first time.
Improved the correctness of meeting.self.getCurrentDevices() to return the recent device list when the user grants the permission for the first time.
Fixed an edge case where the screenshareUpdate event would be emitted twice upon stopping the screenshare.
Improved the reliability of clearing the pinned state from participant after they leave meeting.
New API
Added a new CANCELLED state to meeting.self.mediaPermission when the user cancels the screenshare selection dialog in Chromium browsers.

v1.25.0

Released on March 21, 2023

Fixed Issues
Build issue for customers using Webpack v5 aliasing process with false is resolved.
Removed Poll Messages from meeting.chat.messages. Poll messages were wrongly included in the chat messages.
Optimized screenshare production for higher frame rate.
Improved correctness of mediaScoreUpdate on participant.
New API
The defaults parameter in the init() function now take recording configuration, which is utilized when starting a recording.
When calling init() the defaults param now take screen sharing configuration. Configure the preferred screen sharing screen surface (Screen / Window / Browser Tab).

v1.22.0

Released on March 9, 2023

Features
Interactive Livestream Release (LL-HLS) Broadcast a meeting to 100,000 viewers with Low latency (3-6 seconds) Interactive Chat and Polls Viewers can raise hands or the host can invite Viewers to join the stage
New API
A new DyteStage module introduced at meeting.stage to manage the stage during livestreaming. For more information, see Livestreaming State Management APIs.
A new 'DyteLiveStream' module introduced at meeting.livestream to start and stop the livestreaming. For more information, see Livestreaming: Properties, Functions, and Events.

v1.21.x

Released on February 28, 2023

Features
Initial support for our upcoming Interactive Livestream product (LL-HLS)
Webcam quality can now be controlled from the preset, allows customer to select a higher base quality in the preset editor (beta)
Fixed Issues
Handle WeWork Solistice Camera gracefully
New API
Added boolean flag socketConnected to meeting.meta that shows when the socket connection is established

v1.20.0

Released on February 17, 2023

Features
Reduced the size impact of this library from from 1020KB to 880KB (from 228KB to 208KB GZipped). A 12% improvement from the previous release
Fixed Issues
🚨 Critical 🚨 Fixed a WebRTC video production bug that would impact future Chrome/Edge browser builds (version ≥ M111 - Scheduled to be released in the first week of March)
Fixed a regression introduced in 1.3.1 where defaults values passed during initialisation were not respected correctly under a certain edge case
Fixed an issue where a bluetooth device disconnection on Google Chrome did not automatically switch to an alternative device
Added workarounds for a Safari Bug where on disconnection of a bluetooth device, local video playback was paused
Fixed an issue with Safari screenshare, this improves the screenshare quality in Safari.
Minor improvement in the loading times of participant videos when joining a meeting with many participant on the Stage

v1.19.1

Released on February 1, 2023

Fixed Issues
Improve text legibility when screensharing on Chrome under poor network conditions

v1.19.0

Released on January 26, 2023

Features
When Tab Sync is enabled, now a selfTabUpdate event is fired on the local user when the user switches a plugin
Fixed Issues
Improved permissions check for audio/video/screenshare

v1.18.0

Released on January 20, 2023

Features
V2 REST API - Supports authToken generated from V2 REST APIs
Fixed Issues
Improved handling of iphone Continuity on Mac OS
Fix issues in Websocket connection on Safari 12.x / 13.x / 14.x