October 17, 2023

Overview

daily-android adds support for screen sharing.
daily-js and react-native-daily-js receive a major call metrics upgrade, which will help you better understand the performance of your calls.
daily-js and react-native-daily-js add support for stopping other participants' screen shares.

daily-android

0.11.0

Hello, screen share

daily-android now supports screen sharing. To get started, check out the docs for startScreenShare(), stopScreenShare(), and setScreenShareProjectionIntent().

Release notes

For more information, check out the release notes.

daily-ios

0.11.0

Release notes

This release of daily-ios includes a number of bugfixes.
For more information, check out the release notes.

daily-js

0.53.0

Call metrics improvements

The call metrics logging has been improved. Improvements include:

Many new call metrics, including min and max values for existing metrics and brand new metrics like roundTripTimeMax and roundTripTimeMin
packetLoss calculations have been improved to increase accuracy
packetsLostPct is deprecated. New values have been added which provide a more accurate measurement of packet loss: packetLossPctAvg, packetLossPctMax, packetLossPctMin, and packetLossPctLastValue
Improved accuracy of metrics around times when metrics aren't reported
Fixed an issue where metrics would stop reporting after a call reconnect

Release notes

For more information, check out the release notes.

0.52.0

Stop a participant's screen share

'participants' admins can now stop screen shares initiated by other participants in a session. This added capability allows admins to moderate the content that's shared in a session.

Release notes

For more information, check out the release notes.

react-native-daily-js

0.51.0

Call metrics improvements

The call metrics logging has been improved. Improvements include:

Many new call metrics, including min and max values for existing metrics and brand new metrics like roundTripTimeMax and roundTripTimeMin
packetLoss calculations have been improved to increase accuracy
packetsLostPct is deprecated and replaced by packetLossPctAvg
New values have been added which provide a more information about packet loss: packetLossPctMax, packetLossPctMin, and packetLossPctLastValue
Improved accuracy of metrics around times when metrics aren't reported
Fixed an issue where metrics would stop reporting after a call reconnect

Release notes

For more information, check out the release notes.

0.50.0

Stop a participant's screen share

'participants' admins can now stop screen shares initiated by other participants in a session. This added capability allows admins to moderate the content that's shared in a session.

Release notes

For more information, check out the release notes.

daily-react

0.14.1

Release notes

This release of daily-react includes performance enhancements and bugfixes.
For more information, check out the release notes for 0.14.0 and 0.14.1.

0.13.0

useDailyError hook

New hook useDailyError: this hook returns a stateful representation of the last meetingError (emitted per error event) and nonFatalError (emitted per nonfatal-error event)

Release notes

For more information, check out the release notes.

Daily Prebuilt

Added a visual highlight to Tray icons that are used to open the sidebar in order to help users more easily understand which features are currently in use.
Added support for the daily-js canSend permissions.
Fixed a handful of Picture-in-Picture bugs that occur on Safari 17.
Fixed an issue in SFU calls where screen shares would take a while to start playing when received by remote participants.
Fixed an issue in P2P calls where remote participant audio would occasionally fail to play.
Fixed an issue for mobile clients where the recording status indicator would appear as only a red dot.

Media Services

Features

VCS: added a LowerThird component; a type of graphic overlay inspired by the television industry.

REST API

Features

Our AI-powered APIs added support for call session summarization along with the existing clinical notes generation. Contact sales for more information.
Added support for post-call transcription in French, Hindi, Indonesian, Portuguese, Russian, Spainish, and Turkish for our batch processor APIs. Contact sales for more information.
Added support for ejecting participants from a room.
Added support for updating permissions for participants in a call session.

Improvements

Removed the formats input parameter from our batch processor transcription API. Post-call transcription is now available in srt, json, txt, and vtt by default.
The batch processor API now includes an error attribute for failed jobs.

Dashboard

Fixed an issue where room information would not be displayed if the room was provided with a very large exp value.

Additional

The oldest supported version of daily-js is now 0.43.0.