Upcoming changes

threshold and quality values have long fallen short of correctly identifying network quality. We have introduced a more reliable set of fields: networkState and networkStateReasons for better identifying the state of the network and what is causing it. We recommend using these new fields instead of the deprecated ones.

strictMode: false has been replaced with the opt-in flag, allowMultipleCallInstances: true. Support for multiple call instances is now in pre-alpha support and the intended way to enable it is via the new flag. When support moves out of beta, we will make the new flag the only way to opt in and throw an Error if multiple instances are detected without allowMultipleCallInstances regardless of the strictMode setting. Note: strictMode, which defaults to true, will continue to be used for disallowing use of a Daily call instance after it has been destroyed.

Daily Prebuilt is disabling Picture-in-Picture support for Safari users. Safari does not sufficiently support Picture-in-Picture functionality, which results in Safari crashing for users when a video stream ends. We will investigate reintroducing this feature for Safari in later versions.

Daily Adaptive Bitrate continually adapts the send settings to the current network conditions to deliver a call that is always reliable and when the network is good, delivers exceptional video quality. We are planning to make this feature on by default for all multi-party calls in the future. You can test this today. To learn more, check out our guide.

Daily Adaptive Bitrate continually adapts the send settings to the current network conditions to deliver a call that is always reliable and when the network is good, delivers exceptional video quality. We are planning to make this feature on by default for all 1:1 calls in the near future. You can test this today. To learn more, check out our guide.

We are planning to make a change that will result in all calls routing through Daily’s Global Mesh SFU infrastructure. For customers requiring P2P calls, you can keep the current configuration by setting the sfu_switchover property to 2. Over the years, we have made a substantial investment in our Global Mesh SFU infrastructure, which offers reliable connections and ultra low latencies from locations all around the world. In our testing and analysis of real world calls, SFU calls outperform P2P in every measure. For this reason, we are planning to bring these reliability and performance improvements to all Daily customers. If you’d like to learn more, contact us at help@daily.co.

The testConnectionQuality() and stopTestConnectionQuality() methods are now deprecated. Instead, in daily-js you should use the testCallQuality() and stopTestCallQuality() methods in their place. On react-native, please use testPeerToPeerCallQuality() and stopTestPeerToPeerCallQuality() methods in their place. Contact us (help@daily.co) to learn more.

getMeetingSession() is now deprecated. Users should update their code to use the new and improved non-asynchronous meetingSessionSummary().

The following properties are deprecated: audioTrack, videoTrack, screenAudioTrack, screenVideoTrack. In their place, use the persistentTrack; for example, tracks.audio.persistentTrack. Also, the following properties are deprecated: audio, video, screen. In their place, use the track state; for example, tracks.audio.state. Lastly, cam_info and screen_info are deprecated and replaced by tracks.video.state and tracks.screenVideo.state.

The screen capture options existed only for use in Electron apps. daily-js now provides custom track support and the ability to specify screen options through the startScreenShare() method.

The "output-byte-stream" and "rtp-tracks" recording types are superseded by "cloud" and "raw-tracks" recording types, respectively. They will be removed at a future date.