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Jitsi Changelog

What's new in Jitsi 2.8.5426

Mar 19, 2015
  • Security fixes:
  • Update the embedded JRE to 1.8.40
  • Removed support:
  • GTalk and Google ICE remnants
  • Bugfixes/Improvements:
  • SIP/XMPP
  • Fixes crashes in call recording in mp3 format)
  • Fix audio silence of conference focus
  • XMPP
  • Honor presence changes while logging in
  • Chat
  • Improve state tracking of OTR in conversations
  • Close only the active chat window with the window close button
  • General
  • Delete Felix cache on minor version updates (avoids e.g. duplicate config options)
  • Remove system wide default key bindings
  • Fix alphanumeric dialpad labels
  • Updated translations
  • Fix Forward Error Encoding (FEC) in SILK audio codec
  • Platforms:
  • Windows
  • Fixes an access violation in H.264/video
  • Add "File Version" attribute to the launcher for software inventories

New in Jitsi 2.4.4997 (Jan 7, 2014)

  • Greatly improves Multi-User Chats with XMPP and makes all of them appear in the contact list.
  • Adds support for Socialist Millionaire Protocol with OTR, adds OTR support for SIP and fixes a number of other OTR-related issues.
  • Adds support for DTLS/SRTP (and WebRTC compatibility in libjitsi) through bouncycastle.
  • Adds Forward Error Correction (FEC) for SILK and Opus and Packet Loss Concealment (PLC) for all codecs.
  • Fixes a failure to preview the video device on GNU/Linux.
  • Adds a mobile indicator icon next contacts when they are detected to be logged in only from a mobile device.
  • Makes it possible to pre-provision Windows installations through MSI params.
  • Adds support for XMPP contact resources.
  • Improves random number generation for ZRTP.
  • Adds an option when using proxies to forward DNS traffic to an address, useful for Tor users to avoid DNS leaking.
  • Adds confirmation for video and image previews for security reasons.
  • Fixes SDES in-call reinitialisation.
  • Improves stability for the WASAPI audio system and makes it the default on Windows.
  • Adds greatly improved native echo cancellation on Windows.
  • Updates to Opus 1.1
  • Adds native CoreAudio support on OS X.
  • Fixes an issue which could cause some participants in merged and cross-protocol calls to not hear others or not be heard by others.
  • Improves audio mixing performance.
  • Added translation to Asturian, Czech, Swedish, Scottish Gaelic.
  • Adds a configuration property editor.
  • Fixes the “Jitsi crashed” reports that were sometimes experienced on Windows.
  • Drops Java 1.5 compatibility.
  • Enables the detection of PulseAudio and Video4Linux2 systems under FreeBSD. Tzanetos Balitsaris.
  • Numerous other fixes and enhancements.

New in Jitsi 2.2.4603.9615 (May 1, 2013)

  • Adds an alternative to PortAudio using Windows Audio Session API (WASAPI) (Not yet but soon to become the default audio system on Windows).
  • Adds the possibility to send message or call a specific contact resource over XMPP.
  • Allows setting the video bit rate.
  • Adds presence, avatars and phone types to the “Transfer Call” dialog.
  • Fixes duplication of incoming messages and file transfer panels when show history in chats is enabled.
  • Adds a new Jitter Buffer implementation that greatly improves audio in lossy networks such as Wi-Fi.
  • Adds support for searching for contacts in Thunderbird address books.
  • Adds organization name in LDAP and OS X Address Book search results.
  • Detects video support in XMPP vCard-s (important for CUSAX deployments).
  • Improves Jitsi Videobridge call stability (Work In Progress).
  • Fixes false-alerts for chat window closing.
  • Implements a way for users to disable call waiting via configuration.
  • Fixes various problems with video calls.
  • Adds “push to talk” functionality (quick unmute while pressing Ctrl+Shift+T).
  • Prevents firewall prompts from popping up every time Jitsi is started on Mac OS X 10.6.
  • Fixes copying of smileys, links and message headers in the chat history window (which wasn’t previously possible).
  • Adds TLS client certificate login strategy for XMPP.
  • Adds a minimal (configurable) duration for RTP DTMF tones.
  • Adds retransmissions for 180 Ringing SIP responses over unreliable transports.
  • Fixes NAPTR sorting by preference.
  • Allows use of distinct (configurable) port ranges for audio and video streams.
  • Improves incoming call window placement.
  • Upgrades to latest ice4j version, for better WebRTC compatibility (Work In Progress).
  • Makes conference related menu items available regardless of the currently active window.
  • Fixes the event configuration file chooser to remember the last stored file location.
  • Reverts to use of vanilla bouncy castle libs to address comments received during the Debian submission.
  • Logs dates in all history files as ISO 8601 with time zone.
  • Various other fixes and improvements.