January 26, 2021

daily-js 0.9.997

🛤 The participant list returned by participants() (and all events that return a list of participants), now includes a tracks property which gives you a more granular representation of the state of each track. See participants() docs for more. (Also available in react-native-daily-js).
👩 In the prebuilt UI you can now control whether your local video is displayed in the corner, with a setter (setShowLocalVideo()), a getter (showLocalVideo()), and a property to pass into factory methods or at meeting join time (showLocalVideo).
👩‍👩‍👧‍👧 Additionally, in the prebuilt UI you can now control whether the participants bar (the row of videos during a screenshare) is displayed, with a setter (setShowParticipantsBar()), a getter (showParticipantsBar()), and a property to pass into factory methods or at meeting join time (showParticipantsBar).
📛 Added setUserName() for programmatically setting the user name that other participants see either visually in the prebuilt UI or through the user_name property in the participants object corresponding to you.
The new setInputDevicesAsync() method returns a Promise.

📺 Our RTMP streaming backend is now more stable and compatible with more services.
🎞 The keyframe interval while live streaming has been dropped from 3 seconds to 2 seconds, in line with ingest stream recommendations on major streaming services.

🐛 Fixed a bug where when leaving an iframe-based meeting by clicking the leave button in the iframe, stale participants from that meeting would “linger” in participants(), necessitating the creation of a new DailyIframe for a new meeting.
🛤 TypeScript declaration fixes for track-started and track-stopped events.
🎨 TypeScript declaration fixes wherever CSS properties are expected.