Release notes for Zoom Rooms for macOS

Upcoming Release

Details about upcoming releases will be posted as they become available.

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Current Release

November 7, 2022 version 5.12.6 (1918)

New and enhanced features

• General features
  • Connect to a webinar as a panelist
    Users can pair their desktop/mobile client to a Zoom Room, and then join a webinar as a panelist. 
• In-meeting features
  • Support for six video streams with Smart Gallery
    The number of video streams a Zoom Room may transmit in multi-stream camera control mode is now configurable in the web portal, with a new maximum of six on supported hardware. Consult our guide to determine the maximum supported stream resolution for Windows and Mac Zoom Rooms based on their hardware capabilities.
  • Companion mode enhancements
    Users in companion mode who join a Zoom Room meeting will be displayed in the participant list nested under the Zoom Room’s entry, instead of as a separate entry. 
  • Updated webinar privacy disclaimer
    The webinar disclaimer has been updated to provide additional clarity regarding how data is being handled and who can access it.
• Management features
  • Automatic attempted recovery from temporary web proxy authentication failure 
    When this feature is enabled in the web portal, the Zoom Room will periodically attempt to reconnect through a web proxy when it receives a Proxy Authentication Required response. The Zoom Room will display a notification while it is attempting to recover.

Resolved issues

• Minor bug fixes
• Security enhancements

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Previous Releases

Note: The information in the past release notes may have been superseded by subsequent release notes. Please review all current release notes carefully.

October 16, 2022 version 5.12.2 (1820)

Resolved issues

• Minor bug fixes
• Security enhancements

September 26, 2022 version 5.12.0

New and enhanced features

• General features
  • Display Common Area Phones in the contacts list
    Users can invite common area phone to a meeting from the contact list.
  • One-time password requirement for suspicious logins
    When Zoom Rooms administrators sign in to a Zoom Room using their work email and password, they may be asked to enter a one-time password, sent to their account email, when Zoom detects a suspicious login. A login may be considered suspicious if it originates from a different country or device, among other factors.  After entering the one-time password, the sign in will succeed.
  • Inogeni 4k USB3 camera
    Support for Inogeni 4KXUSB3 HDMI to USB Converter.
  • HDMI as a Digital Signage source
    Admins can now configure a Zoom Room or Digital Signage Only Room to switch to an HDMI input when Digital Signage is playing. This allows admins to display HDMI content in place of a playlist or other content uploaded to Zoom. 
  • Multi-language calendar parsing for Microsoft Teams meetings and Google Meet 
  • Scheduling meetings on Google calendar
    Calendar events will only appear on the resource calendar and not the service calendar when a user schedules a meeting and has full access to the calendar resource.
• In-meeting features
  • Thumbnail View Enhancements
    The Thumbnail view can be used in Zoom Rooms with multiple screens, and the view can be configured to display the film strip above or below the active speaker (this does not apply to Zoom Rooms for Touch). 
  • Zoom Translated Captions
    Zoom Rooms in meetings where the host has a Zoom Translated License will be able to pick between multiple closed captioning channels such as CART, Live Transcription, and Live Transcription translations.
  • Support up to 25 custom languages for interpretations
    The number of custom language interpretations allowed for a scheduled meeting has been upgraded to 25. 
  • Support for meeting polls 
    Polls can be launched during a meeting, allowing participants to provide responses. 
  • Enhancements to Smart Gallery 
    Zoom AI detection has been improved to remove participant duplication when people stand behind each other at the beginning of a meeting. 
  • Meeting assistant updates 
    Meetings assistants are displayed as participants in meetings they join. Assistants can change the name displayed in the participants menu when joining.
  • Reactions for Zoom Rooms
    Zoom Room users can send and receive reactions in meetings and webinars. 
  • Closed captioning notification 
    If saving transcripts is disabled, participants will not receive the following notification in a meeting: “A participant has enabled Closed Captioning [Who can see this transcript]?”
  • High Fidelity Audio mode 
    Zoom Rooms has added a High Fidelity Audio option in the client to allow for professional audio transmission in music education and performance applications. Professional audio interface, microphone, and headphones are recommended.
  • Share screen and audio to all Breakout Rooms 
    When sharing screen in the main session, the host or co-host can share their screen to all active Breakout Rooms. Computer audio and video audio from a screen share can also be shared. 
  • Support for multi-focus camera control mode on Poly R30 USB cameras
    Participants can use multi-focus mode with Poly R30 USB cameras in Zoom Rooms, so that meeting remote participants can see people in the conference room more clearly.
  • Support for Smart Gallery in E2EE meetings
  • Enhanced in-meeting user abuse reporting 
    Simplified process for meeting attendees to report abuse to Zoom.
• Management features
  • Microsoft Teams Meetings join preference 
    When administrators enable Support 3rd party conferencing dial-in for Zoom Rooms and the Support Microsoft Teams web client meeting on Zoom Rooms option on the web portal, they can optionally elect to use Microsoft Teams Cloud Video Interop (CVI) information, if present, to join the meeting via SIP. If no Microsoft Teams Cloud Video Interop (CVI) information is present, Direct Guest Join will be used to join the meeting.  
  • List Reservation Only Rooms on the Zoom Rooms page 
    Reservation Only Rooms will show up in both Workspace and Zoom Rooms hierarchy. Reservation Only Rooms can easily be toggled to Scheduling Display Only Rooms.
  • Idle Time-out power saving mode 
    Administrators can use Idle Time-out mode to automatically turn off Zoom Room displays and dim controllers after a period of inactivity. This setting is mutually exclusive with scheduling periods for devices to enter power saving mode. 
  • Passcode failure alerts 
    Zoom administrators are notified via webhook, Dashboard, and email when someone in a Zoom Room has failed to enter the correct passcode three times within a 24 hour period. Alerts are automatically cleared at the beginning of the next day. 
  • Cloud recording limit 
    If a participant tries to record a meeting after the cloud recording storage limit is reached, the Zoom Room will display a message explaining why the meeting can't be recorded. 
• Zoom for Home features
  • Transfer meetings to Personal Zoom Rooms 
    Users attending an ongoing meeting with their mobile or desktop client can transfer the meeting to their Personal Zoom Room. The ongoing meeting will appear on the touch screen or controller meeting list, along with the Switch button. 
  • User presence status options 
    Personal Zoom Room users can set their status to “busy”, in addition to “available”, “away”, and “do not disturb”. If contacts set their status to “busy” that status will be displayed when viewing the contact list. 
  • Zoom Phone call history 
    Call history saves a record of received, outgoing, and missed calls. Users can view the caller name, number, and call duration with timestamps.

Resolved issues

• Minor bug fixes
• Security enhancements

September 4, 2022 version 5.11.7

Resolved issues 

• Minor bug fixes
• Security enhancements

August 28, 2022 version 5.11.6

Resolved issues 

• Minor bug fixes
• Security enhancements

August 7, 2022 version 5.11.4

Resolved issues 

• Minor bug fixes
• Security enhancements

July 24, 2022 version 5.11.3

New and enhanced features

• General features
  
  • Unique UUID for URN 
    The SIP PBX integration feature now uses a unique UUID for URN in the Contact header of the SIP registration request.
• In-meeting features
  • Meeting layout chat panel enhancement 
    The chat panel can be opened persistently without covering up other meeting content.

Resolved issues 

• Minor bug fixes
• Security enhancements

June 26, 2022 version 5.11.0

New and enhanced features

• General features
  • Companion whiteboard in a Zoom Room
    An additional Windows-based Zoom Rooms for Touch device, or touch-based Zoom Rooms appliance, can be deployed in a regular Zoom Room for use as a companion whiteboard. This is useful for Mac-based Zoom Room deployments with 1-3 screens that could benefit from having a touchscreen for interactive whiteboarding and annotating during a screen share. While a Zoom Rooms Controller controls the Zoom Room, the additional Zoom Rooms for Touch device is used for whiteboard and screen sharing only.
  • Zoom Rooms Voice Commands
    Zoom Rooms Voice Command accuracy has been improved and is now in general availability.
  • Upgrade alerts for free accounts
    Personal Zoom Room users with a free account will receive a notification when their remaining meeting time reaches ten minutes. The notice includes information on how to upgrade.
  • Update to NDI library
    Upgraded from NDI 4 to NDI 5.
  • Proxy Support for Zoom Rooms integrated with Zoom Phone
    Zoom Rooms have proxy capability when Zoom Phone is enabled and configured within the web portal.
  • Increase Zoom Room NDI Output Quantity
    Zoom Rooms NDI supports up to six outputs at 1080p or up to 12 outputs at 720p.
  • Turkish and Polish Language support
  • Multiple-day meeting display
    Scheduled meetings that run for multiple days will be displayed on the Zoom Rooms display for each applicable day.
  • Calendar integration parsing enhancement
    Enhanced parsing for bluejeans invitations, bluejeans sip addresses, and google meet invitations in outlook/exchange.
  • Zoom Room API functions
    Organizations can use API commands to answer or decline meeting invites, and mute or unmute microphone input.
• In-meeting features
  • Zoom Smart Camera Auto-framing
    Auto-framing automatically adjusts the camera view to cover all participants in the room. This feature now works with all Zoom-certified cameras. When Smart Gallery is enabled, the primary camera view will also use auto-framing.
  • Disable Broadcast Message from host to breakout rooms
    Admins on the account can now disable the ability for meeting hosts to broadcast messages to all breakout room participants.
  • Multi-pin and multi-spotlight
    With host permission, users will now be able to pin up to 9 participants on their end. The host can also spotlight up to 9 participants for everyone in the meeting.
  • Watermark enhancements
    Meeting hosts can edit the visual watermark, and turn it on or off during a meeting. Watermarks will display the entire email address over a participant’s shared screen and video tile, as well as displayed over their video in most video layouts (Speaker, Gallery, Side-by-side). The watermark is also visibly more apparent as a tiled pattern across the video or shared screen.
  • Toggle participant entry tones
    If the Zoom Room is the meeting host, participant entry tones can be toggled on or off from the room controller.
  • Show non-video user
    When Show non-video user is enabled during a meeting, the participant will see the non-video users thumbnails when a screen share is started.
• Management features
  • Zoom Rooms controller status
    Zoom Rooms with multiple controllers will have the status of all controllers displayed on the Zoom web portal.
• Zoom for Home features
  • Touch up my appearance
    Gives the picture display a softer focus and enhances digital appearance in real-time when enabled.
  • Shared lines
    The Shared Lines feature allows multiple users to share one extension number for outgoing calls.

Resolved issues

• Minor bug fixes
• Security enhancements

April 24, 2022 version 5.10.3 (653.0422)

New and enhanced features

• General features
  
  • Zoom Event tickets
    Zoom Event organizers or hosts can now invite Zoom Rooms that are listed in an organizations directory to an event. The event will appear on the Zoom Room's calendar, which allows users to join the event from the room.
• In-meeting features
  • Tracking enhancements for Smart Gallery (Multi-stream)
    Detection accuracy has been improved and false detections reduced.

Resolved issues

• Minor bug fixes

April 2, 2022 version 5.10.0 (566.0402)

New and enhanced features

• General features
  • Support for joining Zoom Events via pairing with Zoom Rooms
    Attendees can start or join live sessions via a Zoom Room that is paired to their Zoom clients on laptops or mobile devices. Start/Join buttons are only accessible on the Zoom client interface. 
  • User interface updates
    The Zoom Rooms user interface (UI) has been updated to provide a more consistent experience. The new UI aligns with the Zoom desktop and mobile clients, matches Zoom’s current branding, and provides an optimized information architecture to better meet user needs. The in-meeting experience has been updated for Windows, Mac, and iPad Zoom Rooms. It has also been updated for Zoom Rooms Appliances and iOS and Android Zoom Rooms controllers. The out-of-meeting experience has been updated for Windows-attached and Web Zoom Rooms controllers. See our blog post for more information. 
  • Improved zoom in/zoom out for specific cameras
    Resolves an issue for some PTZ (pan-tilt-zoom) cameras that were experiencing slow zoom in/zoom out behavior. The overall zoom response is now faster. Small adjustments are available by tapping the buttons instead of holding them down.
  • Removal of Calendar Integration error message
    Previously, when a Zoom Room was not linked to a calendar, a prominent error on the Zoom Rooms Controller home page appeared: "This room needs to be connected to a calendar. Contact your Zoom Rooms admin". This error message has been updated to suggest that connection to a calendar is not mandatory. Organizations that do not wish to connect their Zoom Rooms to a calendar can have their admins hide the upcoming meetings list on Zoom Rooms Controllers, which removes the message completely.
• In-meeting features
  • Live transcription (automated captions) notification
    If saving transcripts (captions) is disabled for the meeting, attendees will be notified. 
  • Reclaim host in breakout rooms
    The original meeting host can reclaim the host privileges in a breakout room if they leave and rejoin the meeting. 
  • Additional  chat settings
    Meeting and Webinar hosts can tap the Security button on the Zoom Rooms user interface to set the chat privileges for participants, attendees and panelists.
  • Persistent notification for waiting room
    When an attendee is in the Waiting Room a persistent notification will display on the Zoom Rooms display. 
  • Live streaming notification
    All attendees will see a notification when the meeting or webinar host starts a live stream. Attendees who join the session after the live stream has started will be notified when they enter. 
  • Enhanced in-meeting user abuse reporting
    Users submitting reports will be required to include their email addresses.
  • Screen sharing indicator
    The green Share Content button on the room controller will change to a red Sharing Content button when a screen share initiated by the Zoom Room is in progress.
  • Web settings for gallery view
    Attending a webinar as a Zoom Room will display  gallery view according to web settings, such as show non-video participants. 
  • Gallery view when an attendee is spotlighted
    Zoom Rooms users can switch to gallery view when an attendee is spotlighted.
• Management features
  • Microsoft calendar authentication notification
    Microsoft plans to disable basic authentication for Microsoft Exchange Web Services for Office 365. If a Zoom Room calendar integration to a Microsoft O365 calendar service encounters authentication errors because of this change, a notification message will display.  Customers are encouraged to update any Zoom Rooms calendar integration with Microsoft O365 to use OAuth instead of basic authentication by re-authorizing their calendar integration in the Zoom admin portal. 
  • Untrusted certificate security warning enhancement
    Additional untrusted certificate security warning details including certificate issuer and connection error code will be displayed on the Zoom Room’s screen. These details will also be included in Zoom Room alerts issued to account contacts, and displayed on the Zoom web portal dashboard. 
  • OnZoom disclaimer
    The customized OnZoom event disclaimer will be displayed to Zoom Rooms that join as alternate-hosts or panelists.
• Zoom for Home features
  • Support for displaying Zoom Events on the calendar 
    After registration, Zoom Events will appear on the user’s calendar with a join option.

Resolved issues

• Airhost not working on macOS Monterey
  Installing the Zoom Rooms Mac application will resolve this issue by disabling the Airplay receiver on MacOS Monterey and later versions.
• Minor bug fixes
• Security enhancements

January 25, 2022 version 5.9.4 (4368.0123)

Resolved issues

• Resolved an issue where meeting participants’ audio could not be heard through devices connected by NDI 
• Minor bug fixes 
• Security enhancements

January 9, 2022 version 5.9.3 (4345.0106)

New and enhanced features

• In-meeting features
  • Support for Smart Gallery
    Zoom Rooms Smart Gallery view displays multiple video feeds from a single conference room. This allows the Zoom Rooms cameras to focus more closely on participants and display these people more clearly to remote attendees. Smart gallery is enabled by tapping Multi-stream on the Zoom Room Controller. Smart Gallery works with any single certified USB camera. Minimum system requirements apply. More info.

Resolved issues

• Minor bug fixes

December 28, 2021 version 5.9.0 (4269.1220)

New and enhanced features

• General features
  • Support for Zoom Workspace Reservation (Beta) 
    Users can reserve workspaces and Zoom Rooms on the web portal, kiosks, and Zoom Room for Touch devices. Users can check into workspaces through the web or on a Zoom Rooms for Touch device. Floor maps showing available and unavailable workspaces can be seen on digital signage, kiosks, and the web.

Resolved issues

• Minor bug fixes

December 20, 2021 version 5.9.0 (4269.1220)

New and enhanced features

• General features
  
  • Display gender pronouns 
    If enabled by account admins and added to their profile by either the user directly or through SAML mapping, a user’s gender pronouns are displayed in their contact card and as part of their display name in meetings and webinars.
  • Updates to sign in and pre-meeting user interface 
  • Support for joining Google Meet meetings via PEXIP invite SIP URL 
    Zoom Rooms can join Google Meet meetings via PEXIP invites with audio and video. Clicking the invite will dial the SIP URL of the meeting. 
• In-meeting features
  • Local only screen share 
    Users can make screen shares visible only to themselves when sharing with HDMI. This allows a user to read notes in a meeting that are not visible to other participants.
  • Optional Reclaim Host when rejoining 
    When the original host of a meeting rejoins, they are now given the option to reclaim host controls or remain as a participant or co-host, in order to not disrupt the current host.
  • Support for Smart Gallery in locked meetings 
  • Profile pictures return when Focus Mode is turned off
  • Gallery view default 
    The Zoom Room’s video will appear in the second place of the gallery view by default. 
  • Zoom Room avatar on Shared Zoom Rooms 
    When a Zoom Room is in a meeting the room’s avatar will be displayed. If no avatar is configured a new default avatar will be shown. 
• Management features
  • Support for Graph API
  • Disable phone controls
    Administrators can disable or enable phone controls on Zoom Rooms controllers for rooms without 3rd party SIP or Zoom Phone entitlement. This setting can be disabled on accounts with an active audio plan. 
  • Zoom room display name
    Administrators can customize the name that appears on the Zoom Rooms display screen and on the Zoom web portal. This allows administrators to choose shorter display names that do not include things like location prefixes.
  • Disable in-meeting chat 
    Administrators can disable the display of in-meeting chat for Zoom Rooms. 
  • Improvements for Digital Signage 
    Administrators can choose to have Digital Signage content displayed whenever the Zoom Room is not in a meeting. A scheduled meeting will not stop the content from being displayed.  
• Zoom for Home features
  • Support for advanced features on Personal Zoom Rooms 
    Administrators can make Personal Zoom Rooms a Pro device to get access to the advanced features. Designating a Personal Zoom Room as a Pro device will assign a standard Zoom Rooms license. 

Resolved issues

• Minor bug fixes

November 8, 2021 version 5.8.3 (4125.1103)

Resolved issues

• Minor bug fixes

September 29, 2021 version 5.8.0 (4055.0929)

New and enhanced features

• General features
  • Support for IPv6 
  • Joining personal meetings (PMI)
    Users can populate their “location” field with their PMI and allow others to join that individual’s personal meeting ID if listed. 
  • Spam call indicator 
    Users can see a spam call notification if one is detected. 
  • Enhancements to voice commands 
  • Multi-Stream view improvements 
    Remote meeting attendees will be able to see which camera feeds belong to the same Zoom Room. Zoom Room camera feeds will sort together by default.
  • Archiving error notification 
    Users will receive an error notification if meeting archiving fails. 
• In-meeting features
  • Immersive view 
    Recreate the feel of your class or conference room by placing video participants onto a single virtual background. Participants are automatically placed onto provided scenes, but the host can upload their own custom background and adjust the arrangements as needed. 
  • Breakout rooms management
    Meeting hosts can use the features of breakout rooms with a Zoom Rooms controller or touch screen. 
  • Troubleshooting logs for Microsoft Teams meetings 
    Participants in a Microsoft Teams meeting can send logs to Microsoft.
  • Multi-Stream view (Public Beta) 
    Zoom Rooms Multi-Stream view displays multiple video feeds from up to three different cameras in a single conference room. This allows the Zoom Room cameras to focus more closely on groups of participants and display these people more clearly to remote attendees.
  • Additional security features 
    Hosts can hide profile pictures, suspend participant activities and start video for participants. 
  • Focus mode 
    In focus mode, only the host can see participants’ videos or profile pictures when video is off. Participant screen sharing can only be viewed by the host, who can switch between multiple shared screens and allow participants to view others’ shared screens. Administrators can enable Focus mode for use in meetings via the web portal.
  • Virtual background delay 
    If a user’s virtual background fails to load, a prompt will appear with the option to start the video without it. 
  • Additional non-verbal feedback 
    Attendees can click the coffee cup icon in the reactions menu during a meeting to indicate that they are temporarily away.
• Management features
  • Customize recording disclaimer 
    Administrators can customize the text of the recording disclaimer that is displayed to participants. 
  • Limit screen sharing for external meetings 
    Administrators can restrict specific internal participants from screen sharing in a meeting with external participants. 
  • Untrusted certificate alert 
    Administrators will receive alerts for untrusted certificates on their dashboards in the web portal. 
  • Remote meeting controller enhancements 
    The text of the privacy disclaimer that is displayed to administrators when taking control of a meeting has been improved. Breakout room participants will receive a message that the meeting is being controlled by an administrator. All participants will be notified when an administrator stops controlling the meeting.
• Zoom for Home features
  • Blurred background
    Personal Zoom Room users can choose to blur their backgrounds rather than selecting a specific virtual background. This provides added privacy when a branded background is unavailable or unnecessary. This is currently supported on Poly devices, Neat bars, and Facebook portal.

Resolved issues

• Minor bug fixes
• Security enhancements

August 12, 2021 version 5.7.5 (3865.0810)

Resolved issues

• Minor bug fixes
• Security enhancements

July 27, 2021 version 5.7.3 (3831.0726)

New and enhanced features

• General features
  • MacOS 10.10 support 
    MacOS 10.10 is no longer supported after this release. Older versions of the Zoom Rooms application will still function with this OS, but updating will not be possible. 
• In-meeting features
  • Active Apps Notifier Enhancements
    The Active Apps Notifier will only be displayed to attendees if an app has accessed data during an on-going meeting. When the Notifier is displayed, it will categorize the type of meeting data that the third party app is accessing. 
  • Mute and Video Off when joining a recorded/live streamed Meeting
    When a Zoom Room joins a meeting that is already being recorded and/or live streamed, they will join with their video off and muted until they consent to the recording prompt. After consenting, they will be able to unmute and turn on their video, if the host allows them to. 
• Management features
  • Disable in-meeting chat replies
    Administrators can enable or disable the ability to reply to in-meeting chats from the Zoom web portal. 

Resolved issues

• Minor bug fixes

June 29, 2021 version 5.7.0 (3755.0628)

New and enhanced features

• General features
  • Updated Zoom for Government label
  • Zoom Room voice commands (Public Beta)
    Users can check-in, check-out, start a scheduled meeting, start an instant meeting, join a meeting ID, enter meeting passcodes, leave and end a meeting with voice commands. Say “Hello Zoom” to get started. This is not currently supported on computers with ARM CPUs (Apple M1).
  • Support for Host Keys 
    Zoom Rooms users can join a meeting and enter the Host Key to claim the host privileges for that meeting. 
  • Third party meeting support
    Zoom Rooms users can join Fuze meetings.
  • STIR/SHAKEN compliance 
    STIR/SHAKEN is an industry standard to prevent fraudsters from initiating calls from the numbers they don’t own. As required by FCC, Outbound PSTN calls from Zoom endpoints with Zoom provided US phone numbers will include attestation of the caller ID.
• In-meeting features
  
  • Improvements to non-verbal feedback
    Users who raise their hand in a meeting will have their feedback more prominently displayed in their participant window on the Zoom Room display.
  • Support for Network Device Interface (NDI)
    Video producers can use Network Device Interface (NDI) with Zoom Rooms to create custom visual experiences from individual video streams. Meeting or webinar video is sent via NDI to the network and from there production teams can use NDI enabled applications to modify the video. 
  • Panelist and host controls in a webinar
    Zoom Rooms that join a webinar as a panelist or a host will be able to view and/or manage attendees.  
  • Virtual background enhancements
    Account admins can require users to use virtual background when their video is on, as well as set a default virtual background from the default or custom uploaded options. If a device does not support virtual background and the attempt is made to turn it on, the participant will be notified and their video turned off. 
  • In-meeting chat replies
    Meeting participants in a Zoom Room can reply to in-meeting chat messages with a Zoom Rooms controller or using a Zoom Rooms touch screen. 
  • Meeting archive notification
    Meeting participants will be notified if meeting data is being archived. 
• Zoom for Home features
  • OnZoom meeting display 
    Meeting hosts will be able to distinguish between regular meetings and OnZoom meetings when looking at their meeting lists.
  • Support for Mac and iOS devices 
  • Binding code login 
    A user that logs in to the Zoom web portal can then log in on the Zoom for Home device with a binding code.

Resolved issues

• Minor bug fixes
• Security enhancements

June 6, 2021, version 5.6.7 (3642.0606)

New and enhanced features

• Enhanced data privacy notices 
  In-context user education for various features, such as whiteboard, closed captioning, and others, informs the user who can see, save, and share the information before they provide it.
• Recording consent 
  Zoom Rooms will need to consent to the meeting being recorded when joining a meeting or when someone starts recording the meeting. 
• Active Apps Notifier 
  When someone in a meeting or webinar is utilizing any app that has access to real-time content or personal information during a meeting, participants are given real-time notice of usage. Details of which apps have access and which participant is using the app are displayed, and clicking on the app opens the Marketplace page to provide more information.
• Disclaimer messages 
  Administrators can configure disclaimer messages that will appear for the following actions: start meeting, join meeting, host recording start.

Resolved issues

• Minor bug fixes

April 25, 2021, version 5.6.3 (3526.0424)

Changes to existing features

• Management features
  • Dashboard reporting 
    Administrators will not be able to view the local IP, client version or role of meeting participants from outside their organization.

New and enhanced features

• General features
  • Enhanced data privacy notices
    In-context user education for various features, such as whiteboard, closed captioning, and meeting feedback, informs the user who can see, save, and share the information before they provide it.
• Management features 
  • Additional Network Device Options for Room Controls
    Administrators can now leverage link-local IP addressing (169.254.X.X) as well as hostname addressing (shure-mxa-3) on devices in the Room Controls JSON Profile. These changes allow organizations that leverage devices on closed or dynamic networks to forgo expensive routing equipment and reduce labor costs for custom configurations on each device's network settings.  Modern networks (where static addressing is being phased out) can define a hostname rather than a static IP address and prevent downtime during IP space changes across the network.

Resolved issues

• Minor bug fixes
• Security enhancements

March 28, 2021 version 5.6.0 (3480.0326)

New and enhanced features

• In-meeting features
  
  • Updated user interface for meeting chat
  • Updated user interface to match changes made on other devices
    The recording icon, phone controller icon, and top banner have been updated to match the changes made for Windows and Appliances.
  • Zoom for Government support
    Zoom for Government users can sign-in on Zoom Rooms and Zoom for Home devices. 
  • Virtual background setup
    Zoom Room controllers will display a message stating that a solid green background is required if that is the only option supported. If a user taps Recalibrate, the controller screen will display a “Calibrating” message.
  • Room Controls automatic re-connect
    Room controls will automatically try to reconnect a Zoom Room device if it loses its connection. Users can tap Retry to manually reconnect if the first automatic attempt fails, and the room controls will also try to reconnect periodically if the first attempt is unsuccessful.
• Management features
  
  • In-room participants information on the dashboard 
    The meeting dashboard will display in-room participants data for past meetings if the "Use supported hardware for real time people count" setting is enabled.
  • Meeting start notification 
    Meetings without Join Before Host enabled can be joined by participants more quickly. Once the host starts the meeting, participants no longer need to wait 30 seconds. 

Resolved issues

• Minor bug fixes

January 31, 2021 version 5.5.0 (3353.0130)

New and enhanced features

• General features
  • Mobile device controllers
    Users can utilize their mobile devices to perform basic room controls during a meeting. These include: Mute/unmute audio, volume control, start/stop video, end meeting and more. This functionality can be used along with full companion mode on a client, which will allow users to perform additional meeting controls. Full companion mode can also be used by itself.
  • Native support for Apple Silicon processors
    Zoom Rooms will better support computers with ARM CPUs. Due to the lack of Dante ARM SDK, "Dante Virtual Microphones" is not supported on computers with ARM CPUs for now.
• In-meeting features
  • Gallery view while screen sharing
    Users can swap shared content for video while screen sharing in a Zoom Room. Once this is done, gallery view is available.  
  • Support for Huddly Canvas whiteboard camera
    Users can share white boards with the Huddly Canvas whiteboard camera.
  • Speaker tracking with AVer camera
    Admins can enable this feature which allows AVer cameras to track the active speaker in a meeting. 
  • Attendee counting with Huddly IQ camera
    Admins can enable this feature which allows Huddly IQ cameras to count the number of attendees in a meeting. 
• Management features
  • Configuration for Microsoft Teams Direct Guest Join integration
    Admin users will be able to setup the Microsoft Teams integration for Zoom Rooms on the Zoom web portal. 
  • Disable desktop screen sharing for meetings you host
    When enabled, users can only share selected applications and files. 
  • Log file expiration time 
    Log files with user information will expire after 90 days.

Resolved issues

• Minor bug fixes
• Security enhancements 

January 10, 2021 version 5.4.3 (3265.0106)

Changes to existing features

• Blocking or warning of unencrypted traffic
  All unencrypted Zoom traffic will be blocked from connecting to meetings or webinars. Other external unencrypted traffic, such as phone dial-in and RTMP streaming, will be allowed, but warn all participants that the meeting is not entirely encrypted due to unencrypted end-points.

Resolved issues

• Minor bug fixes

December 6, 2020 version 5.4.0 (3164.1204)

New and enhanced features

• In-meeting features
  • Ability to delete chat messages
    In-meeting chat messages that are deleted by a meeting or webinar host will also be deleted from the Zoom Rooms in that meeting.
  • Partially encrypted meeting warning
    Unencrypted connections, such as audio through phone dial-in, unencrypted SIP/H.323 devices, or streaming via RTMP, will alert the host and other attendees that some aspects of the meeting are not fully encrypted due to unencrypted end-points. 

Resolved issues

• Minor bug fixes
• Security enhancements

November 15, 2020 version 5.3.0 (3116.1113)

Changes to existing features

• Passcode and/or Waiting Room requirement
  Zoom will now require that all meetings have a Passcode or a Waiting Room enabled for accounts with a single licensed user, Pro accounts with 2 or more licenses, and Business accounts with 10-100 licenses. For Zoom Rooms specifically, this requirement will impact users who reserve rooms on scheduling displays.  Learn More.

New and enhanced features

• In-meeting features
  • Suspend participant activity
    New option in the Security panel to immediately suspend all participant activities, which will mute all video and audio, stop screen sharing, end all breakout rooms, and pause recording. Meeting participants in a Zoom Room can be suspended but meetings hosted from Zoom Rooms do not currently have the option to suspend activity.
  • Support 49 video participants in Gallery view
    Each screen in a Zoom room can support up to 49 video participants. For example, two screens would support 98 participants and three screens 147 participants, which is the maximum number supported. 
  • Breakout Room support
    Zoom Rooms can be assigned to breakout rooms. 
  • Ability to send DTMF with SIP information 
    This can be configured so that DTMF is sent when calling out of Zoom Rooms.
  • Video virtual background support with green screen 
  • Unmuting meeting participants
    Meeting hosts can request that all participants unmute themselves.
  • Attendee annotation
    Meeting hosts can allow or prohibit attendee annotation on shared content. 
  • Custom language support for language interpretation
    Meetings with the simultaneous interpretation feature enabled can support multiple translations for custom languages.
  • Italian and Vietnamese language support
  • Follow meeting host video order
    Meeting hosts on the Zoom client can drag and drop participant videos into a different position in gallery view and then broadcast this change to participants in a Zoom Room.
  • Virtual background preview support
    Users can preview their virtual background before a meeting if they are using a green screen. 
• Management features
  
  • Hide caller ID
    Administrators can choose to hide the outbound caller ID for their Zoom Rooms by configuring their settings for Zoom Phone.
  • Zoom room display name
    Administrators can customize the name that appears on the scheduling display screen on the Zoom web portal. This allows administrators to choose shorter display names that do not include things like location prefixes.

Resolved issues

• Minor bug fixes
• Security enhancements

October 26, 2020 version 5.2.2 (3051.1024)

New and enhanced features

• In-meeting features
  • End-to-end (E2E) encryption  for meetings
    End-to-end (E2E) encryption for meetings is now available in technical preview. Account owners and admins can enable end-to-end (E2E) encryption for meetings, providing additional protection when needed. Enabling end-to-end (E2E) encryption for meetings requires all meeting participants to join from the Zoom desktop client, mobile app, or Zoom Rooms. Users will not be able to join by telephone, SIP/H.323 devices, on-premise configurations, or Lync/Skype clients, as these endpoints cannot be encrypted end to end. Zoom web client and third-party clients leveraging the Zoom SDK are also not supported at launch. Enabling this setting also disables the following features: join before host, cloud recording, streaming, live transcription, Breakout Rooms, polling, and meeting reactions. This setting is enabled in the Zoom web portal at the account, group, and user level and can be locked at the account or group level. 

Resolved issues

• Minor bug fixes
• Security enhancements

September 27, 2020 version 5.2.0 (2940.0927)

Resolved issues

• Minor bug fixes
• Security enhancements

August 23, 2020 version 5.1.2 (2806.0821)

Resolved issues

• Minor bug fixes

August 2, 2020 version 5.1.0 (2745.0802)

Changes to existing features

• Management features
  • Meeting and webinar passwords now called Passcodes
    Meeting passwords will now be called Passcodes. This includes Room Meeting IDs.
  • Cloud recording storage
    If cloud recording storage capacity is reached, Zoom Rooms attendees will not be able to record. 

New and enhanced features

• In-meeting features
  
  • Support speaker switching with MXL microphones and camera presets
    Zoom Rooms with three MXL AC-44 microphones and a preset capable camera can be configured to support speaker switching. Once the microphones detect where a speaker is sitting, the camera preset is activated for that location.
  • Hand off a Zoom Phone call
    Users that initiate a phone call on their device can handoff the session to a Zoom Room that is in proximity.
  • Attendee audio status
    When users join a meeting, their audio status will be displayed on their video thumbnails until they successfully connect to the meeting audio.
  • Admitting external attendees
    Attendees from the same account as the host can admit external attendees in the Waiting Room. This setting can be toggled on or off.
  • Original sound 
    If software audio processing (SAP) is disabled, Zoom Rooms will automatically enter original audio mode when music is detected. If no music is detected after one minute, the room will leave original audio mode.
  • Check out
    Users who end a scheduled meeting early will have the option to check out and free up the room for other users. 
  • View In-Meeting Private chats
    Private chat messages sent to the Zoom Room during a meeting can be displayed. 
  • Live transcription
    Meeting hosts in Zoom Rooms can turn on auto-transcription during a meeting. Live transcription will be generated automatically and appear on the room meeting display. This feature is currently in beta.
  • Language Interpretation
    If interpretation is being provided, a meeting attendee in a Zoom Room can select another audio channel to hear the meeting language translated.
  • Reactions
    Meeting attendees in a Zoom room will be able to view reactions from other users.
  • Unmute Zoom Rooms attendee in a webinar
    Webinar hosts can unmute a Zoom Rooms attendee without promoting the attendee to panelist.
  • Select screen sharing privileges
    Meeting hosts using a Zoom Room can restrict the ability to screen share to the host only, or allow all participants to share. 
  • One click to join the audio of a Google Meet meeting
• Management features
  • Cloud recording storage
    If cloud recording storage capacity is reached, Zoom Rooms attendees will not be able to record.
  • Under construction
    Scheduling displays will display as under construction if the under construction status is enabled on the Zoom web portal.
  • Companion whiteboard user interface
    The companion whiteboard will display the Zoom Rooms background or the digital signage content when it is not in use.
  • Launch Zoom Rooms Controller from web portal
    Administrators can access a Zoom Room’s controller interface from the web portal.
  • Digital signage content display control
    Administrators can configure the time of day content is displayed.
  • Sign out from all devices 
    Users can sign out of Zoom Rooms from the web portal.
  • Room Controls
    Support for incoming messages to prompt other controls. Support for Additional Rules: Room Operating Hours.
• Scheduling display features
  • Passcode check 
    If a complex passcode is required, user created passwords for scheduled meetings will have to meet certain criteria to be considered secure.
• Controller features
  • Rename participants from controller
    Meeting hosts can rename participants from the Zoom Rooms controller. 

Resolved issues

• Minor bug fixes
• Security enhancements

July 5, 2020 version 5.0.5 (2542.0703)

Changes to existing features

• Security update
  Support enhanced encryption for connections between Zoom Rooms and Zoom Rooms Controllers and the direct share functionality of the Zoom Meetings client. Starting August 16, 2020, Zoom Rooms and Controllers will need to be running version 5.0.5 or higher to function.

Resolved issues

• Minor Bug Fixes

May 24, 2020 version 5.0.2 (2399.0524)

Changes to existing features

• Unmuting participants
  If a host mutes a participant then unmutes the person later, a consent message will be displayed to the participant allowing them to unmute or stay muted. 

New and enhanced features

• In-meeting features
  • Security features
    Meeting hosts can tap the security option while in a meeting to easily access the following features: lock meeting, enable Waiting Room, disable chat, disable participant renaming, disable screen sharing for others, remove participant, report a participant.
  • Report a participant
    Meeting hosts can tap the security option while in a meeting to report a participant to Zoom trust and safety for inappropriate behavior. 
  • Host selection when leaving a meeting
    The host will be prompted to assign a new host before leaving the meeting. 
  • Waiting Room
    Hosts in direct share meetings or phone calls will be able to allow or prevent participants from joining their meetings when Waiting Room is enabled. 
  • Meeting information
    Users can view the numeric password which is used for phone and H323/SIP call-in participants. The numeric password is displayed with the phone dial in number on the meeting information screen.
  • Starting a test meeting while not signed in
    Users must accept Zoom’s Terms of Service and Privacy Policy via pop-up message before starting a test meeting in a Zoom Room that is not signed in. 
• Management features
  • Recording consent customization
    Admins can customize the message that appears asking participants for their consent to be recorded. 
  • Logs
    Admin users can enable a web setting that allows Zoom support to submit logs to Zoom on behalf of the admin, or have the logs automatically uploaded in the event of a crash.
• Scheduling display features
  • Scheduling a password protected meeting
    Users can choose to schedule a password protected meeting and customize the meeting password from a scheduling display. If passwords are required for scheduled meetings, a password will be generated automatically and cannot be disabled from the scheduling display.

Resolved issues

• Security enhancements
• Minor bug fixes

April 26, 2020 version 5.0.0 (2236.0426)

Note: Once you upgrade to this version, you cannot downgrade to the previous version using the Zoom web admin portal.

New and enhanced features

• Recording permissions
  Admin users can restrict recording permissions from the web so that meeting hosts cannot allow attendees to record. 
• AES 256-bit GCM encryption
  Zoom is upgrading to the AES 256-bit GCM encryption standard, which offers increased protection of your meeting data in transit and resistance against tampering. This provides confidentiality and integrity assurances on your Zoom Meeting, Zoom Webinars, and Zoom Phone data. This version of Virtual Room Connector will support GCM encryption when it is automatically enabled for all accounts on May 30. For H.323/SIP devices, GCM encryption will be used between the Cloud Room Connector and the Meeting connector, to ensure codec compatibility.

Changes to existing features

• Problem reports
  In addition to basic logs, users can send audio, content sharing, and crash dump logs with a problem report using the Zoom Rooms Controller.
• Screen sharing
  Zoom Rooms cannot share screen when the host disables screen sharing for meeting participants.
• Signing in to Zoom Rooms
  To pair Zoom Rooms and controller using the pairing code, the Zoom Rooms Controller must be upgraded to versions 5.0 or above. Alternatively, you can sign in or enter activation code on the Zoom Rooms and Zoom Rooms Controller individually. 

Resolved issues

• Security enhancements
• Minor bug fixes

April 10, 2020 version 4.6.6 (2052.0409)

Resolved issues

• Resolved an issue that prevented Blackmagic devices from working properly.

April 7, 2020 version 4.6.5 (2040.0406)

Resolved issues

• Security enhancements
• Minor bug fixes