May 1, 2023

Overview

April was a very busy month! Some highlights include:

You can modify the send settings for the local camera and custom tracks that you publish via the updateSendSettings() API
HIPAA organizations can now record using raw tracks
Noise cancellation is now easier to find and use in Daily Prebuilt
Daily Prebuilt's breakouts feature now supports calls with more than 50 participants

Reminder: the experimentalChromeVideoMuteLightOff in favor of keepCamIndicatorLightOn.

daily-js

0.44.1

Bugfixes

Fixed an issue where simulcast encodings set within dailyConfig were not respected.

0.44.0

Features

Updated our default simulcast settings and provided new methods to read and modify simulcast settings within a call. We provide two presets which match most needs, 'bandwidth-optimized' and 'quality-optimized', but developers can specify custom settings as well for advanced usage. See updateSendSettings() for more details.
- Related to the above work, we have changed the default send resolution when using daily-js in mobile browsers:
  - Android: before the resolution was 720x1280. Now, the default resolution is 360x640.
  - iOS: before the resolution was 480x640. Now, the default resolution is 360x640.
  - iPads now use mobile resolution and layer defaults. Previously, some iPads were using defaults intended for desktops.
Added participant selection for recording and streaming layouts.

Bugfixes

Fixed an issue where switching mic after starting camera video processing could cause the camera processor to go away.
Fixed an issue where quickly calling updateInputSettings() multiple times in succession could lead to a video or audio processor not being applied.

Other improvements

Improved the behavior of recordings when a meeting is moved from one SFU to another, e.g. due to a networking issue or a new version of the server being deployed. A recording error is now thrown in those cases, allowing developers or end users to restart the recording or otherwise respond.
Improved handling of call logs during disconnect to ensure logs are properly flushed during a disconnect.

0.43.0

Features

Daily JS now allows HIPAA organizations to use raw tracks recordings.

Bugfixes

Fixed a bug where, in P2P mode, toggling the camera off and back on would disable background effects.
Fixed an occasional WASM memory access error by adding an additional safety check around video not existing when trying to process it.
Fixed a bug where getInputSettings() could erroneously report after load() (or startCamera(), or join()) that you had no processors specified, until the first input-settings-updated event fired. This could occur even if you specified one in the preload cache via a constructor argument, or a previous call to updateInputSettings().
Fixed an issue where a non-default device could be selected automatically as though it were the default.
Fixed an issue where the unprocessed track could occasionally be sent when background processing is enabled.
Fixed an issue where leaving soon after joining could result in attempt to send to closed socket or error connecting to the sfu errors to be logged.
Fixed a longstanding issue where back-to-back available-devices-updated events (with identical payloads) would fire in the case of a combination input/output device (i.e. a headset) being plugged in or unplugged.
Fixed some out of date type definitions for DailyInputVideoSettings.
Fixed DailyEventObjectFatalError types to resolve correctly in typescript codebases.

Other improvements

Improved handling of failure to switch from P2P to SFU topology when a recording is initiated. A recording error is now emitted, rather than failing silently.
Updated several libraries with security issues reported by npm audit to versions without reported vulnerabilities.
Deprecate experimentalChromeVideoMuteLightOff in favor of keepCamIndicatorLightOn, and flip the default. If not specified otherwise, turning off the camera now turns the camera indicator light off.
Improved device detection code to use devicechange event wherever available rather than polling.
Adjusted the cpu load trigger for disabling background processing to be a little more optimistic and less likely to disable processing.

react-native-daily-js

0.42.1

Bugfixes

Fixed an issue where simulcast encodings set within dailyConfig were not respected.

0.42.0

Features

Updated our default simulcast settings and provided new methods to read and modify simulcast settings within a call. We provide two presets which match most needs, 'bandwidth-optimized' and 'quality-optimized', but you can specify custom settings as well for advanced usage. See updateSendSettings() for more details.
- Related to the above work, we have changed the default send resolution when using daily-js in mobile browsers:
  - Android: before the resolution was 720x1280. Now, the default resolution is 360x640.
  - iOS: before the resolution was 480x640. Now, the default resolution is 360x640.
  - iPads now use mobile resolution and layer defaults. Previously, some iPads were using defaults intended for desktops.
Added participant selection for recording and streaming layouts.

Bugfixes

Fixed an issue where publishing encodings weren't always respected on React Native for Android.
Fixed an issue where a websocket error would be logged after leaving a call using React Native for Android.

Other improvements

Improved the behavior of recordings when a meeting is moved from one SFU to another, e.g. due to a networking issue or a new version of the server being deployed. A recording error is now thrown in those cases, allowing developers or end users to restart the recording or otherwise respond.
Improved handling of call logs during disconnect to ensure logs are properly flushed during a disconnect.

0.41.0

Features

Daily JS now allows HIPAA organizations to use raw tracks recordings.

Bugfixes

Fixed an issue where calculation of CPU metrics could throw an error on react native.
Fixed a bug where getInputSettings() could erroneously report after load() (or startCamera(), or join()) that you had no processors specified, until the first input-settings-updated event fired. This could occur even if you specified one in the preload cache via a constructor argument, or a previous call to updateInputSettings().
Fixed an issue where a non-default device could be selected automatically as though it were the default.
Fixed an issue where leaving soon after joining could result in attempt to send to closed socket or error connecting to the sfu errors to be logged.
Fixed a longstanding issue where back-to-back available-devices-updated events (with identical payloads) would fire in the case of a combination input/output device (i.e. a headset) being plugged in or unplugged.
Fixed some out of date type definitions for DailyInputVideoSettings.
Fixed DailyEventObjectFatalError types to resolve correctly in typescript codebases.

Other improvements

Updated several libraries with security issues reported by npm audit to versions without reported vulnerabilities.
Improved device detection code to use devicechange event wherever available rather than polling.

Daily Prebuilt

Features

The user's noise cancellation selection is cached in order to make it easier to reuse their preferred setting.
Added large call support (enabled through the experimental_optimize_large_calls room property) for breakout rooms. By enabling experimental_optimize_large_calls for a breakouts enabled room, you can now add more than 50 participants to a breakout room.
Owners in a breakout room now have the ability to see the attendee list for all rooms from the People panel.
Users can now enable noise cancellation from the precall lobby. When enable_noise_cancellation_ui is enabled for a room, a new Reduce button appears in the lobby that lets users turn noise cancellation on and off.

Bugfixes

Fixed an issue where local users couldn't pin themselves.
Fixed an issue where Picture-in-Picture would sometimes fail to start.
Fixed an issue where a console error was emitted due to a play() attempt being interrupted. This has no functional impact, but removes an error from occurring.

Media Services

HIPAA-enabled domains can now create raw-tracks recordings.
Continued tuning and testing a new video muxer which will create seekable video without remuxing.
Ensured that transcription-started events are sent to new participants that join a call.
Fixed a regression that caused recordings using the fps parameter to fail for valid inputs.

VCS

Fixed a bug with videoSettings.preferredParticipantIds that unintentionally removed certain participants from a recording.
Resolved security vulnerabilities of dependent libraries in daily-vcs.

REST API

Made a number of performance optimizations for the room creation API.

Dashboard

Added support to display iOS and Android version and library information for native mobile users.
Fixed an issue where some toggles in the dashboard's Room tab needed to be double clicked to enable and disable features.
Fixed an issue where a console error was emitted due to a JSON error.

Additional

We are now collecting sales tax for existing customers in New York.
Optimized some internal communication paths to reduce the overload system load for our SFUs.
The oldest supported version of daily-js is now v0.32.0.