Changelog archive: 2024

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Overview

• Support for automatic client-side recording recovery during meeting moves (pre-beta).
• Background blur, virtual background, and custom audio track support for iOS and Android SDKs.
• Better logging for recordings and streaming-related errors and other transcription improvements.

• daily-js
• react-native-daily-js
• daily-react
• daily-ios
• daily-android
• daily-python

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daily-js

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0.73.0

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Recording and Streaming Recovery During Meeting Moves (Pre-beta)

• When enabled, your recordings and live streams will automatically resume after a meeting move occurs, eliminating the need for manual intervention or custom recovery logic.
• This feature ensures continuous recording/streaming during both planned maintenance and unexpected server transitions, reducing gaps in your recorded and streamed content.
• Currently available as an opt-in feature. Contact help@daily.co if you’re interested in testing this functionality on your domain.

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Fixed leave() race condition

// Previously this could occasionally cause issues
await call.join();
call.leave(); // might be ignored

• Resolved edge cases where leave() calls would sometimes return a promise that never fulfilled, particularly when:
  • Transitioning between meeting states rapidly
  • Managing multiple join/leave operations in quick succession
• Added additional state validation to prevent race conditions between join() and leave() operations
• This change improves reliability for applications that need to handle rapid meeting state transitions, such as moving participants between rooms or implementing reconnection logic.

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Fixed Chrome 129 Device Selection Issues

// Previously in Chrome 129+:
const constraints = {
  video: {
    deviceId: { ideal: 'requested-camera-id' }, // Would silently use default camera
  },
};

• Added proper error handling when requested devices aren’t available
• This resolves issues where camera/microphone selection would appear to succeed but continue using the previous or default device
• This fix ensures consistent device selection behavior, particularly important when users need to switch between multiple cameras or microphones.

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Fixed Audio Processing Detection in Safari 17.0-17.3

• Corrected browser capability detection for audio processing features in Safari versions 17.0 through 17.3. Previously, these versions would incorrectly report support for audio processing features.
• This ensures that applications using audio processing features (like Krisp’s noise cancellation) can accurately determine browser compatibility and provide appropriate fallback experiences.
• Audio processing is now correctly reported as supported only in Safari 17.4 and above.

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Fixed Resource Loading URL Resolution

// Previously this could cause resource loading from incorrect servers
await call.startCamera(); // Without a URL
// Any resource loading here would use incorrect server
await call.join({ url: 'https://your-domain.daily.co/room' });

• This ensures resources are always loaded from the correct Daily production server, particularly important when using features that require additional resources before joining a call, especially in restrictive network environments.

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Dependency updates including Sentry

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Improved Error Logging for Participant Updates

• Reduced noise in dashboard logs by no longer treating participant-not-found cases as errors.
• These messages commonly occurred during normal operation when participants left the call but pending updates were still being processed.
• Now only logs actual errors related to permissions or other substantial issues.
• No changes to functionality - calls to updateParticipant() for unknown participants continue to be handled as no-ops.

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Removed Legacy Device Handling System

• The v2CamAndMic configuration flag now has no effect as all clients automatically use the modern device handling system.
• No action required for existing applications since this system has been the default since version 0.49.0.
• If you see references to v2CamAndMic in your codebase, you can safely remove them.

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Version Support Update

• The oldest supported version of daily-js is now 0.62.0.

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daily-react

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0.22.0

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Improved Browser Compatibility for Audio Level Observation

• Added error handling to prevent unhandled exceptions when local audio monitoring is not supported by the browser.
• Applications using useAudioLevelObserver now continue functioning normally in browsers that don’t support audio level monitoring.
• This improves the stability of features that depend on audio level detection, like audio visualizers or speaking indicators.

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Fixed Room Expiration Logic for Mixed Token and Room Settings

• Fixed useRoomExp hook to correctly handle combinations of token expiration (exp) and room ejection settings.
• This resolves UI inconsistencies where expiration countdown banners would appear based on token expiration even when room ejection wasn’t configured.
• Ensures expiration warnings only show when actual ejection will occur, preventing confusing user experiences.
• Particularly important for applications using token-based authentication alongside room expiration settings.

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0.21.3

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Improved Graceful Degradation for Disabled WebRTC

• This improves compatibility with privacy-focused browser extensions that often disable WebRTC features.
• Components like <DailyProvider/> and <DailyAudio/> now handle these scenarios gracefully instead of throwing runtime errors.
• Particularly important for applications that need to maintain functionality even when users have restricted WebRTC access.

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react-native-daily-js

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0.70.0

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Fixed iOS Camera Orientation in Portrait Mode

// Previously in iOS 16.x on initial join:
{ height: 720, width: 1280 }  // Incorrect landscape dimensions

// After fix - correct portrait dimensions:
{ height: 1280, width: 720 }  // Correct portrait dimensions

• This resolves an issue where users would experience zoomed-in video feeds when first joining a call in portrait orientation.
• The fix ensures correct video dimensions are set on initial join, eliminating the need to rotate the device to fix the view.
• Primarily affected iOS 16.x devices in Chrome and WKWebView-based browsers (embedded webviews).

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Improved Android Permission Handling

• Fixed several Android-specific permission issues:

// Previously requested both permissions regardless of call settings
const audioOnlyCall = Daily.createCallObject({
  videoSource: false, // Camera permission still requested
  audioSource: true,
});

// Now correctly requests only needed permissions
const audioOnlyCall = Daily.createCallObject({
  videoSource: false, // No camera permission requested
  audioSource: true, // Only microphone permission requested
});

• Fixed a race condition where tracks weren’t properly initialized if users took longer to respond to permission prompts

• Only requesting necessary permissions based on call configuration.
• Ensuring permissions are properly handled regardless of user response time.
• Preventing unnecessary camera permission requests for audio-only calls.
• Optimizing foreground service permissions:
  • It is recommended that developers remove FOREGROUND_SERVICE_CAMERA permission from AndroidManifest.xml when not needed.
  • Update foregroundServiceType configuration to exclude camera when not required.

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Fixed Global Event Listener Cleanup

• Added missing removeEventListener when cleaning up global shims.
• Resolves potential conflicts with other React Native libraries that use global variables.

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Additional Updates

• Automatic recording/streaming recovery during meeting moves.
• Fixed join/leave timing issue.
• Dependency updates including Sentry upgrade.
• Less noisy logging for participant updates.
• Removal of legacy device handling system.

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daily-android

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0.26.0

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Background Effects Support

• BackgroundBlur: Apply adjustable background blur (strength: 0.0 to 1.0).
• BackgroundImage: Replace background with an image from your assets directory.

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Custom Audio Tracks Support

• addCustomAudioTrack(): Add a new custom audio track to the call.
• updateCustomAudioTrack(): Modify an existing custom audio track.
• removeCustomAudioTrack(): Remove a custom audio track from the call.

• Fixed setTransform() crash with VideoTextureView on older Android versions.
• Renamed org.webrtc package to co.daily.webrtc to avoid conflicts.
• Updated subscription state method names for better clarity.

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Fixed VideoTextureView Crash on Older Android Versions

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0.25.0

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WebRTC Package Namespace Change

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Added Resolution Change Detection for VideoTextureView

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0.24.0

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Added Support for REST API App Messages

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Deprecated Transcription tier Property

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daily-ios

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0.25.0

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Added support for custom audio tracks

• addCustomAudioTrack(): Add a new custom audio track to the call.
• updateCustomAudioTrack(): Modify an existing custom audio track.
• removeCustomAudioTrack(): Remove a custom audio track from the call.

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0.24.0

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Added REST API App Message Support

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Deprecated Transcription Tier Property

• Added new delegate methods for handling custom audio tracks.
• Fixed camera zoom issues in Portrait mode.
• Enhanced resource cleanup processes.
• Improved error handling for audio device selection.

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daily-python

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0.13.0

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Added Comprehensive Dial-in Event Support

• on_dialin_connected: Triggered when initial connection is established with SIP/PSTN endpoint.
• on_dialin_stopped: Fired when remote endpoint disconnects the call.
• on_dialin_warning: Handles non-fatal issues (e.g., codec fallbacks).
• on_dialin_error: Captures fatal errors that prevent service continuation.

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Fixed Virtual Speaker Deadlock

• Reading from a virtual speaker before any remote participants joined.
• Subsequently attempting to exit the application.

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Daily Prebuilt

• Added visualState option for customTrayButtons giving developers more control over button appearance and behavior.
• Fixed an issue where resizing the Prebuilt window with chat open could result in a fatal error. This occurred when sending emojis and scrolling through chat messages in a room with advanced chat enabled.
• Participants now automatically leave the call when encountering a fatal error or crash to prevent orphaned participants.
• Enhanced custom button UX by rendering labels instead of tooltips in the more menu.
• Fixed recording/streaming status indicator disappearing during meeting moves.

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Media Services

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Webhooks

• Fixed an issue with meeting ended webhook that was reporting wrong meeting start_time
• Added missing payload properties to dial-in and dial-out webhook events:
  • Added userId to dial-out webhook events.
  • Added sessionId to dial-in webhook events.

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Transcription

• display_name for HIPAA customers:
  • Transcripts now include participant display names when stored in customer-managed infrastructure, improving speaker identification while maintaining HIPAA compliance.

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Recording and Live Streaming

• Enhanced error handling and logging:
  • Improved error message detection and logging for better troubleshooting.
  • Added detection of common recording/streaming issues including authorization failures and publishing restrictions.
  • Expanded known error patterns for recording/streaming connection failures and S3 permission problems.
• Fixed a bug in VCS where participant order changes with dominant flag even when dominant.followDomFlag is off.

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Batch Processor

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Overview

• daily-js
• react-native-daily-js
• daily-react
• daily-ios
• daily-android
• daily-python

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daily-js

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0.72.1 and 0.72.0

• Fixed issue in Chrome 129 that could prevent some users from changing microphone and camera devices.
• Fixed the camera zoom issue that occurred in Portrait mode specifically when using Chrome or within a webview on iOS 16.

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0.71.2

• Now you can transcribe a subset of participants along with the ability to initiate multiple simultaneous transcription on the same call. For more information, check out our updated guide.
• startDialOut() now supports setting a userId that gets associated with all dial out events
• Added a new test-completed event that gets emitted whenever a pre-join test has completed, providing a way for accessing the results asynchronously. This also provides a way for Daily Prebuilt customers to access the results of the call quality test that gets run as part of its prejoin UI. Check out the docs for more info.
• Fixed issue with background processing where the raw background would appear for a brief moment when switching between backgrounds.

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0.70.0

• Support for multiple simultaneous call client instances is now in beta. For more information, check out our new guide.
• Improved noise cancellation (specified via updateInputSettings() or the inputSettings call property) and made it available on desktop and mobile Safari.
• Added a networkThreshold property to call.participants() objects and related events (e.g. participant-updated, etc.), showing their network quality.

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0.69.0

• Fixed an issue in Chrome 127 where the video was freezing when applying background effects.

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0.68.0

• New getter methods isLocalAudioLevelObserverRunning() and isRemoteAudioLevelObserverRunning()
• Exposing custom SIP headers received during the connection within the dialin connected event.
• Updated console deprecation warning for testConnectionQuality() to point to daily’s preferred alternative of testCallQuality().
• Updated cookies to follow the new CHIPS (Cookies Having Independent Partitioned State) guidelines and 3rd party restrictions. More details here.
• Improved internals of testCallQuality() so that the test’s server connections better match what is expected to be in use during the actual call.

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react-native-daily-js

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0.69.0

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0.68.0

• Support for multiple simultaneous call client instances is now in beta. For more information, check out our new guide.
• Added a networkThreshold property to call.participants() objects and related events (e.g. participant-updated, etc.), showing their network quality.

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0.67.0

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0.66.0

• New getter methods isLocalAudioLevelObserverRunning() and isRemoteAudioLevelObserverRunning().
• Exposing custom SIP headers received during the connection within the dialin connected event.

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daily-android

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0.24.0

• Added the CallClientListener.onAppMessageFromRestApi() callback for receiving app messages sent through the REST API.
• TranscriptionStatus.transcriptId is now nullable, fixing an error where null values from the server would prevent the onTranscriptionStarted() callback from being invoked.
• Transcription property tier has been deprecated. Use model instead. See https://developers.deepgram.com/docs/model.
• Fixed a logging-related crash (stack overflow) that could occur when rapidly starting and stopping the SDK.

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0.23.0

• Added callConfig field to CallJoinData.
• The VideoView class is now marked as open.

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0.22.0

• Added new metrics that will allow us to better understand the meeting quality.
• Fixed a crash when stopping screen share
• Fixed an issue to show the correct state when the mic is muted remotely.

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daily-ios

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0.24.0

• Transcription property tier has been deprecated. Use model instead. See https://developers.deepgram.com/docs/model.
• Fixed a logging-related crash (stack overflow) that could occur when rapidly starting and stopping the SDK.

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0.23.0

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0.22.0

• Added new metrics that will allow us to better understand the meeting quality.
• Fixed an issue to show the correct state when the mic is muted remotely.
• Fixed network stats to use Float64 and Int64 data types to improve precision.

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daily-python

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0.11.0

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Added

• Added callerId field to DialoutSettings.
• Added CallClient.start_live_stream(), CallClient.stop_live_stream(), CallClient.update_live_stream(), CallClient.add_live_streaming_endpoints() and CallClient.remove_live_streaming_endpoints().
• Added EventHandler.on_live_stream_updated().
• Added support for specifying custom TURN servers via CallClient.set_ice_config().
• Added support for specifying a proxy URL via CallClient.set_proxy_url().
• Added missing dialin/dialout handlers in daily.pyi.
• EventHandler.on_dialin_answered should be EventHandler.on_dialout_answered.

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Changed

• Transcription property tier has been deprecated. Use model instead. See https://developers.deepgram.com/docs/model

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Fixed

• Fixed an issue that caused app messages sent from the REST API to not be received correctly.
• Fixed daily.pyi type completions.
• Fixed a crash caused by passing non-serializable data to CallClient.send_app_message.

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Release notes

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daily-react

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0.21.0

• Removed recoilRootProps from DailyProvider as we’ve internally migrated from Recoil to Jotai.
  • Improved Jotai state atoms for reduced CPU and memory usage.
  • Added jotai as peer dependency
• Added jotaiStore prop to DailyProvider, which, when passed with a Jotai store, is equivalent to passing recoilRootProps={{ override: false }} in previous versions.

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0.20.0

• useAudioLevelObserver(): new hook to handle participant mic volume levels. This hook is based on audio level observers in daily-js. useAudioLevel() is now deprecated. Use useAudioLevelObserver() instead.
• useParticipantIds(): the fix to avoid potential stale state introduced in 0.19.1 was reverted, due to negative performance impact. Instead stale state is now avoided by prioritizing internal event handlers in Daily React over application level event handlers.

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Daily Prebuilt

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Improvements and fixes

• Allow custom buttons to have active states
• Allow changing hover color in Prebuilt UI
• Fixed text overlapping with chat in breakout rooms
• Prebuilt chat resizes as per content
• Cam and Mic icons are now hidden when canSend is set to false
• Added support for new enable_shared_chat_history domain and room properties, which controls whether newly-joined participants can see chat history from before they joined.
• Added Danish language support to Prebuilt.
• Allow users to override userMediaAudioConstraints when using Prebuilt.

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Media Services

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Dial-in & Dial-out

• Added support for SIP Dial-in to automatically start a room when no user is present in Daily room
• Add webhooks for dialout and dialin events
• Added support for creating room when initiating PSTN or SIP dialout via REST API.
• Reduced the room creation time when SIP/PSTN properties are set in the domain or room properties
• Participant joined event fires for dial-out
• Allow setting user_id in startDialOut
• Send dialin-ready as soon as participant join
• Add ability to configure dialin IVR message
• Exposed custom SIP headers in dialin-connected
• Added support for SIP REFER after the call is connected

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Recording and Live streaming

• Close the recording on meeting move
• Fixed a bug in recordings API: totalParticipant should include all the participants

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VCS

• Prevent transcription messages from being printed twice in VCS recordings/streams
• VCSRender rounded corners for video layers
• Released in beta a new VCS pipeline that performs 4x-5x better. Will eventually replace the current pipeline. No customer action is needed.
• VCS WebFrame renders at correct aspect ratio when embedded in the dominant layout mode using the param videoSettings.dominant.includeWebFrame
• Ensure WebFrame is immediately loaded when params are passed in startLiveStreaming / startRecording

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Batch processor

• Fix the default path for soap-note/summarize
• Custom prompts have a length limit
• Added setting a transcription_template
• Tag each live transcription request with transcriptId
• Add updateTranscription API across all SDKs and APIs
• Fix formatting of speaker identification tags in WebVTT output of transcriptions

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Overview

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daily-js

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0.67.0

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Pre-beta: Multiple call instances

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New precall test method

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Release notes

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0.66.0

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Bugfixes

• Fixed an issue where the call machine was not loading inside webviews on iOS 16.
• Improved handling of an underlying Chrome bug with regards to screensharing. We have witnessed issues when sharing a tab with audio on Chrome where the audio track will end when switching which tab is shared using Chrome’s built-in “Share this tab instead” button. Previously, when this happened we would end the screenshare. Now, we will send a nonfatal-error (see example below) but will not end the screenshare so that video can continue. However, a user will have to restart the screenshare in order to recover audio. We have filed an issue with Chromium.

{
  "action": "nonfatal-error",
  "type": "screen-share-error",
  "errorMsg": "Error with ScreenShare audio",
  "details": {
    "sourceError": "audio track ended unexpectedly"
  }
}

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react-native-daily-js

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0.65.0

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Pre-beta: Multiple call instances

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Release notes

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daily-android

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0.21.0

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Advanced firewall controls

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Release notes

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daily-ios

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0.21.0

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Advanced firewall controls

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Release notes

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daily-python

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0.10.0, 0.10.1

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Release notes

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daily-react

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0.19.1

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Bugfixes

• useParticipantIds(): when using a custom filter or sort it was possible that useParticipantIds() would return stale state until a participant-updated event was emitted.
• useActiveSpeakerId(): the internally stored id of the last active speaker is now correctly reset when receiving a left-meeting event.
• useParticipantProperty(): when embedding a Daily React app inside Angular’s NgZone, attempting to resolve a MediaStreamTrack property could result in a recursive loop, due to NgZone’s monkey-patching behavior on certain browser objects.

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Daily Prebuilt

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Improvements and fixes

• Improved the handling of audio when receiving an incoming call for iOS 16 users.
• Fixed an issue where raising and lowering hands wasn’t immediately visible in the UI.
• Fixed an issue where the call machine was not loading inside the webview on iOS 16.

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Media Services

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Dial-in & Dial-out

• Added domain config pin_dialin,which allows assigning phone numbers for pin dial-in.
• Added the /release-phone-number/:id endpoint to delete a purchased phone number.
• Added a new dialout-answered event, which is emitted when a call is answered.

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VCS

• Added more audio-specific options for the VCS simulator (make audio-only participant dominant, and associate with screenshare track)
• VCS baseline composition bug fixes for audio-only participants with the dominant flag set (i.e. active speaker): dominant mode + preferScreenshare now works as expected
• Fixed the inconsistent behavior with preferScreenshare when in grid mode and the VCS baseline comp param videoSettings.grid.useDominantForSharing is enabled
• New VCS param 'videoSettings.pip.includeWebFrame' allows WebFrame content to be automatically included as the primary content in the pip (picture-in-picture) layout mode

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Batch processor

• Batch processor returns a specific error if input audio is silent
• Batch processor now uses the remux-mp4 operation to process recordings over 2GB in size

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Additional

• Fixed an issue where the /meetings REST endpoint no longer returned info for deleted rooms if the request included a room name.
• The oldest supported version of daily-js is now 0.57.0.

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Overview

• Adding zoom and flashlight controls to daily-ios
• Adding the ability to cycle cameras with daily-js
• Dynamically control screen share audio and video tracks with daily-js

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daily-js

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0.65.0

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Cycle cameras on mobile browsers

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SIP: Dial-in ready event

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Release notes

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0.64.0

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Control screen share audio and video

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Prevent meeting token abuse

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Release notes

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react-native-daily-js

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0.63.0

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Receive settings for custom tracks

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SIP: Dial-in ready event

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Release notes

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0.62.0

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Control screen share audio and video

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Release notes

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daily-android

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0.20.0

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Release notes

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daily-ios

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0.20.0

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Zoom and flashlight controls

• Camera zoom control convenience method: CallClient.setCameraZoom()
• Flashlight control convenience method: CallClient.setCameraTorch()

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Release notes

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daily-python

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0.9.0, 0.9.1

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Release notes

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0.8.0

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Dial-in events

• dialin-ready
• dialout-connected
• dialout-stopped
• dialout-error
• dialout-warning

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Release notes

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daily-react

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0.19.0

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useCallFrame updated

• ⚠️ Breaking change: useCallFrame: Instead of accepting the resolved value for a given parentEl, it will now accept a React Ref parentElRef. This generally improves the DX when working with conditionally rendered call frame wrappers.

// Before
const ref = useRef(null);
const callFrame = useCallFrame({
  parentEl: ref.current,
});

// Now
const ref = useRef(null);
const callFrame = useCallFrame({
  parentElRef: ref,
});

• Removed unnecessary playsInline attributes from rendered <audio> elements
• Updated devDependencies

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Daily Prebuilt

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Disable PiP support in Safari

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Improvements and fixes

• Fixed an issue where the Prebuilt client could stop subscribing to remove videos.
• Fixed an issue where background effects were not working for browsers with WebGL disabled.
• Fixed an issue where some users were not able to download the call object bundle, which prevented them from joining a Prebuilt call.

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Media Services

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Dial-in & Dial-out

• Added support for pinless dial-in.

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VCS

• In the VCS baseline composition, long participant labels are now truncated with ellipsis when space is tight.
• Fixed an issue with VCS dominant mode preferScreenshare.
• New VCS param 'videoSettings.dominant.includeWebFrame' allows WebFrame content to be automatically included in the dominant layout mode.

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Webhooks

• Added support to enable multiple webhooks for a domain. Contact us to learn more.

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Dashboard

• Fixed a bug where session logs would appear to overlap one another.

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Additional

• Added REST API for ejecting and banning users by user_id. See /rooms/:name/eject for more information.
• The oldest supported version of daily-js is now 0.55.0.

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Overview

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daily-js

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0.63.0

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Count faces found within a camera stream

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Release notes

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0.62.0

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Highlights

• Daily Adaptive Bitrate is now available as a beta for multi-party calls. Contact us to get started.
• daily-js has updated the browser versions it supports. Check out this page to learn about the latest update. Also, this update means that daily-js no longer supports Plan B browsers.

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Release notes

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0.61.1

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Release notes

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react-native-daily-js

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0.61.0

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Daily Adaptive Bitrate now available

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Release notes

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0.60.0

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Get local and remove audio levels

• startLocalAudioLevelObserver()
• stopLocalAudioLevelObserver()
• getLocalAudioLevel()
• startRemoteParticipantsAudioLevelObserver()
• stopRemoteParticipantsAudioLevelObserver()
• getRemoteParticipantsAudioLevel()

• local-audio-level
• remote-participants-audio-level

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Release notes

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daily-android

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0.19.0

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Added a local audio level observer

• startLocalAudioLevelObserver()
• stopLocalAudioLevelObserver()

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Release notes

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0.18.0

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Daily Adaptive Bitrate now available

callClient?.updatePublishing(
    PublishingSettingsUpdate(
        camera = CameraPublishingSettingsUpdate(
            sendSettings = VideoSendSettingsUpdate(
                allowAdaptiveLayers = Enable()
            )
        )
    )
)

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Release notes

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daily-ios

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0.19.0

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Added a local audio level observer

• startLocalAudioLevelObserver()
• stopLocalAudioLevelObserver()

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Release notes

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0.18.0

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Daily Adaptive Bitrate now available

self.callClient.updatePublishing(.set(
    camera: .set(
        isPublishing: .set(self.cameraIsPublishing),
        sendSettings: .set(
            allowAdaptiveLayers: .set(true)
        )
    )
), completion: nil)

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Release notes

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daily-python

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0.7.2 through 0.7.4

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Release notes

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daily-react

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0.18.0

• Adds onTranscriptionMessage to useTranscription() and deprecates onTranscriptionAppData

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Daily Prebuilt

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Improvements and fixes

• Issued a fix for state mismatch issues in breakout rooms between different hosts and clients
• We’ve added support for custom avatar images, which can be added by including an avatar property when setting userData:

Daily.createFrame(parentEl, {
  // ...
  userData: {
    avatar: 'https://example.com/avatar.jpg',
  }
);

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Media Services

• (Auto-recording)[/reference/rest-api/meeting-tokens/create-meeting-token#body-properties-start-cloud-recording] parameter can now start raw tracks.
• The value of room-peers is now sent to the VCS server.
• VCS now supports zipped assets in the session asset loader.

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Dial-in & Dial-out

• If a dial-out number is purchased for the domain, allow user to use that number for dial-in as well.
• SIP now supports multiple instances for dial-in.
• CallerID now supports unverified numbers.

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Webhooks

• Added support for two new webhooks: batch-processor.job-finished and batch-processor.error.

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Additional

• The oldest supported version of daily-js is now 0.53.0.
• Increased the rate limit of internal methods to support higher frequency of the testWebhookConnectivity() method.

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Overview

• daily-android adds camera zoom and flashlight control and custom tracks are now generally available.
• daily-ios adds new custom track methods and custom tracks are now generally available.
• daily-python now supports native Voice Activity Detection (VAD) to enable building voice AI applications.
• Two new participant webhooks are added, indicating when a participant joins and leaves a session.

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daily-js

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0.60.0

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Highlights

• If you’re using Daily to dial out from your calls, you can now specify the displayName.
• We fixed an issue where base64 data URLs were failing when used in updateInputSettings().
• We’ve added the ability to disable the microphone when it’s muted using a new forceDiscardTrack option for setLocalAudio(false). This option will enforce Daily to discard the track along with muting the mic. Doing so will have the effect of turning off mic-in-use indicators. While this sounds ideal, this flag should be used cautiously. By default, we do not discard the microphone track because unmuting requires re-fetching the track and introduces a delay that likely clips the start of someone talking. Popular web based video calling services do not use this. We’ve added this capability for use cases where users are connected to a Daily session for a very long time and they aren’t speaking (e.g. a virtual work or office).

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Release notes

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react-native-daily-js

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0.58.0

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Highlights

• If you’re using Daily to dial out from your calls, you can now specify the displayName.
• We’ve added the ability to disable the microphone when it’s muted using a new forceDiscardTrack option for setLocalAudio(false). This option will enforce Daily to discard the track along with muting the mic. Doing so will have the effect of turning off mic-in-use indicators. While this sounds ideal, this flag should be used cautiously. By default, we do not discard the microphone track because unmuting requires re-fetching the track and introduces a delay that likely clips the start of someone talking. Popular web based video calling services do not use this. We’ve added this capability for use cases where users are connected to a Daily session for a very long time and they aren’t speaking (e.g. a virtual work or office).

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Release notes

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daily-android

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0.17.0

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Zoom and flashlight controls

• Camera zoom control convenience method: CallClient.setCameraZoom()
• Flashlight control convenience method: CallClient.setCameraTorch()

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Release notes

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0.16.0

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Custom tracks are now GA

• CallClient.beta.addCustomVideoTrack() has been deprecated, in favor of CallClient.addCustomVideoTrack().
• We’ve added the ability to remove and update custom tracks, using CallClient.updateCustomVideoTrack() and CallClient.removeCustomVideoTrack().

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HIPAA: User analytics improvements

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Release notes

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daily-ios

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0.17.0

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Added

• Add support for an audio-only recording layout preset.
• Add transcription management features:
  • New CallClient methods:
    • startTranscription(withSettings:completion:) and startTranscription(withSettings:)
    • stopTranscription(completion:) and stopTranscription()
  • New delegate methods:
    • callClient(_:transcriptionStarted:)
    • callClient(_:transcriptionStoppedBy:)
    • callClient(_:transcriptionError:)
• Add rawResponse field to TranscriptionMessage. It’s included if includeRawResponse was specified when starting the transcription

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Fixed

• Fixed an issue that could cause join to fail if recording/transcription/live stream was started from the REST API.

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Release notes

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0.16.0

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Custom tracks are now GA

• We’ve added the ability to add, remove, and update custom tracks, using:
  • CallClient.addCustomVideoTrack()
  • CallClient.removeCustomVideoTrack()
  • CallClient.updateCustomVideoTrack()

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HIPAA: User analytics improvements

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Release notes

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daily-python

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0.7.0, 0.7.1

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Voice Activity Detection (VAD)

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Completion callbacks change

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Release notes

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daily-react

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0.17.3

• Fixed an issue where useTranscription() returned isTranscribing: true after a meeting ended.
• Fixed an issue where useActiveSpeakerId() unnecessarily initialized its state with null, when an active speaker id was already present.
• Fixed an issue where useAudioLevel() broke echo cancellation in Firefox, due to unintentionally playing out an audio track when it was meant to be analyzed only.

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Daily Prebuilt

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Improvements and fixes

• Mobile users now see higher resolution and frame rate for the active speaker on page one.
• Fixed an infrequent issue where it was possible to encounter a CORS error when trying to join a call.
• Fixed an issue where some Safari users would see translation keys instead of text in the UI.
• Fixed an issue on mobile where Daily Prebuilt would render a custom button light mode icon when the device was in dark mode.
• Fixed an issue where after applying a custom virtual background and switching to “None”, Daily Prebuilt still applied the original custom background when the page refreshes.

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Features and improvements

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Media Services

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Batch Processor

• Added Swedish language support.

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Dial-in & Dial-out

• Added verified caller IDs for outbound calls.

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Webhooks

• Added two new webhooks events: participant.joined and participant.left
• Added a new retry configuration for webhooks. You now have the option for: 1) a circuit breaker, 2) exponential retry per message.
• Added support to provide an HMAC to the 'POST /webhooks' and 'POST /webhooks/:id' endpoints, instead of using an on-demand generated secret.

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Additional

• The oldest supported version of daily-js is now 0.51.0.

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Overview

• Daily Adaptive Bitrate (Early access) for 1:1 calls
• Live captions for Daily Prebuilt
• Improved user analytics for HIPAA compliant customers

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daily-js

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0.59.0

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HIPAA: User analytics improvements

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Release notes

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0.58.0

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Daily Adaptive Bitrate: Early Access

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Release notes

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0.57.1-4

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Release notes

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react-native-daily-js

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0.57.0

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HIPAA: User analytics improvements

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Release notes

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0.56.0

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Release notes

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0.55.2

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Release notes

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daily-android

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0.15.0

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Improvements

• Added participantId field to TranscriptionMessageData.
• Added transcriptId field to TranscriptionStatus.

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Bugfixes

• Fixed multiple issues which could cause a deadlock during network reconnection.
• Ensure that updateInputs() continues to be usable while the network is down.
• Fixed an issue where the SDK could fail to release resources when turning off the camera track.
• Fixed a crash which could occur if the network connection drops soon after joining.

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daily-ios

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0.15.0

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Bugfixes

• Fixed multiple issues which could cause a deadlock during network reconnection.
• Ensure that updateInputs() continues to be usable while the network is down.
• Fixed a crash which could occur if the network connection drops soon after joining.

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daily-python

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0.6.3

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Release notes

• 0.6.2
• 0.6.3

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Daily Prebuilt

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Features and improvements

• Added support for Daily Adaptive Bitrate for 1:1 calls.
• Added support for live captions in Daily Prebuilt. To use this feature, you need to set enable_live_captions_ui to true for your domain or room and also ensure that transcriptions are configured to start, which you can read more about here.
• Add an option to hide the screen share overlay, which appears for the screen sharer.

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Bugfixes

• When a camera is turned back on, fix an issue where the video tile appears frozen while loading.
• Fixed an issue where Prebuilt would get an undefined error when useLegacyVideoProcessor was not defined.
• Fixed instructions when microphone access is blocked in Chrome 119+.

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Media Services

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Dial-in & Dial-out

• Added support for a new method, sendDTMF(), for transmitting DTMF signals during calls.
• Added support for allowing PSTN dial-in and SIP-dial-in to run simultaneously in a room.

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Webhooks

• Added two new webhooks events: meeting.started and meeting.ended.

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Dashboard

• Enable live captions for Daily Prebuilt for either your entire domain or room using the dashboard setting called Live Captions UI.

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Additional

• SFU mode is now the default calling mode. You can configure your domain or rooms for SFU calls by setting the sfu_switchover property.
• Fixed an issue where raw-tracks recordings were not ending the recording after the maxDuration flag was set.
• The oldest supported version of daily-js is now 0.50.0.

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Overview

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daily-js

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0.57.0

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Dial-out

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Background blur and effects available in Safari

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New metrics and precall test changes

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Release notes

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react-native-daily-js

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0.55.0

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Dial-out

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New metrics and precall test changes

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Release notes

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daily-python

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0.6.0

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Dial-out

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Release notes

• 0.6.0
• 0.6.1

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Daily Prebuilt

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Features and improvements

• Added support for Speaker View in a breakout session.
• Added support for using a custom background in your Daily Prebuilt call.

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Bugfixes

• Fixed an issue where touch tablet devices, like Windows Surface devices, weren’t displaying the A/V device change shortcut menus.

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Media Services

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VCS Features & Fixes

• Added a new opacity prop on VCS Video element.
• Added a new VCS param for videoSettings.grid.fullScreenHighlightItemIndex for fast switching to temporary full-screen mode and back when in grid mode.
• Corrected the TypeScript definition for layout.participants in streaming / recording.

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Dial-in & Dial-Out

• New guide and APIs detailing how to add dial-out to your Daily domain. See the guide to learn more.

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Bugfixes

• Fixed an issue where, when the batch processor finishes transmuxing files, it will now reupload files to the S3 bucket with the Content-Disposition to inline if allow_streaming_from_bucket is set.

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Dashboard

• The REST API logs now have a retention limit that matches the call log retention limit. Both limits are based on your support plan. For longer retention periods, you can update using the developer dashboard or contact us at help@daily.co.

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Additional

• Update generic 'Error during call' meeting errors to now have more informative messages about what actually went wrong.
• A new local-screen-share-canceled event was added, which triggers when a Chrome users initiates a screen share but closes the “Select a screen” Chrome menu before starting the screen share.
• The oldest supported version of daily-js is now 0.48.0.