Release notes for the Zoom PWA
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Upcoming Release
Details about upcoming releases will be posted as they become available.
Current Release
May 22, 2022
New and enhanced features
- General features
- Support for Stay signed-in
Users signing in to the PWA may choose to stay signed into the application for a longer period using their selected sign-in method, as allowed per their organization’s policies. - Enhanced external authentication
When signing-in and being redirected to external authentication, the authentication and redirect back to the PWA is improved to be more consistent and smooth.
- Support for Stay signed-in
- Meeting/webinar features
- End-of-meeting feedback survey
The PWA/web client shows the same end-of-meeting feedback as used in the desktop client. This allows admins to collect user experience data from meetings joined/hosted on the web client. This will follow the Display end-of-meeting experience feedback survey option in web settings.
- End-of-meeting feedback survey
- Meeting features
- Enhancement to Waiting Room participants order
Hosts can choose to display the participants currently in the Waiting Room in either chronological or alphabetical order. This is set in the Waiting Room customization settings in the web portal. - View Breakout Rooms activities from main session
Hosts can get an idea of how active their breakout rooms are by viewing the list of open breakout rooms. Each participant in those breakout rooms will show their current video and audio status, if they are sharing their screen, and any active reactions or nonverbal feedback.
- Enhancement to Waiting Room participants order
Resolved issues
- Minor bug fixes
- Resolved an issue regarding in-meeting chat messages not auto-scrolling with each new message
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Note: The information in the past release notes may have been superseded by subsequent release notes.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.
April 17, 2022
New and enhanced features
- Meeting/webinar features
- Support for multi-spotlight for cloud recordings
Cloud recordings will recognize and record up to 9 spotlighted participants in a meeting or webinar.
- Support for multi-spotlight for cloud recordings
- Meeting features
- Central library of polls
Users can manage a central library of polls for meetings. They can create or edit polls and use them for Personal Meeting ID (PMI) and non-PMI meetings. Previously, polls for PMI and non-PMI meetings were managed separately. When a poll is marked as available to all meetings, it will appear in the list of polls that can be launched in a meeting. This new central repository will not replace the existing "Personal Meeting (PMI) polls", instead polls created here will only appear in PMI meetings. - View Breakout Rooms activities from main session
Hosts can get an idea of how active their breakout rooms are by viewing the list of open breakout rooms. Each participant in those breakout rooms will show their current video and audio status, if they are sharing their screen, and any active reactions or nonverbal feedback.
- Central library of polls
Resolved issues
- Minor bug fixes
- Security enhancements
- Resolved an issue regarding the Ask for Help option not appearing when participants are manually or automatically assigned.
- Resolved an issue regarding chat disappearing when moving in-and-out of breakout rooms.
April 1, 2022
Resolved issues
- Minor bug fixes
March 20, 2022
New and enhanced features
- Meeting/webinar features
- Virtual background support for devices with sufficient hardware
Virtual Background, instead of the current Mask feature, can be enabled by users on devices with sufficient CPU cores. Only available on devices with at least 4 logical cores, including 4 real cores or 2 cores with 4 threads. This may cause performance issues on lower-powered devices and users can easily switch back to the simpler Mask feature. - Audio/Video statistics
When connected to a meeting, web client users can view meeting statistics, such as latency, jitter, packet loss, frames-per-second, and bitrate.
- Virtual background support for devices with sufficient hardware
- Meeting features
- Rename participants in Waiting Room
Hosts and co-hosts can rename meeting participants in the waiting room before they enter the meeting. After locating a participant's name in the waiting room section of the participant list, an option appears in the ... menu to rename that participant. The participant is notified of this change. - Save Breakout Room assignments for future use
When breakout rooms are created, the host can save that current configuration and participant assignments, which can be used in future sessions. This is only available for recurring meetings and limited to 10 saved configurations per user. - Optional include co-host when automatically assigning breakout rooms
When creating breakout rooms and choosing to assign participants automatically, any co-hosts will not automatically be included in the assignments, but the host can choose to include them.
- Rename participants in Waiting Room
- Webinar features
- Webinar Session Branding
Hosts can customize the appearance of the in-webinar experience by adding a wallpaper behind the video tiles, setting a common virtual background for all panelists, and providing name tags for each panelist. - Reactions for Webinar Attendees
Webinar Attendees can use reactions, similar to reactions in meetings. The stream of submitted reactions are displayed in the bottom-right corner of the main webinar window, visible to the host, panelists, and attendees. This can be controlled within the webinar, as well as at the Account-, Group-, and User-level settings.
- Webinar Session Branding
Resolved issues
- Minor bug fixes
- Security enhancements
- Resolved an issue regarding bypassing the Waiting Room when rejoining a meeting
February 27, 2022
New and enhanced features
- General features
- Change Zoom presence status
Users can adjust their presence status within the Zoom PWA. - Leave option added in the join before host waiting screen
When a user on the Web client joins a meeting or webinar before the host, they can click the Leave button to gracefully exit instead of closing the browser, which allows account owners and admins of the host account to view the visit status for reporting purposes.
- Change Zoom presence status
- Meeting/webinar features
- Auto-launch PWA on ChromeOS
When enabled by an admin, users clicking on a join link will be directed to the PWA, instead of the soon-to-be-deprecated Zoom for ChromeOS app. This must be enabled for your account by Zoom. - Frozen video enhancement
To improve compatibility with some Windows devices, the web client may automatically refresh the page when a participant’s video freezes is unavailable during the meeting, which can fix the participant’s video. A warning will appear before this happens, and this can be disabled through in-meeting controls.
- Auto-launch PWA on ChromeOS
Resolved Issues
- Minor bug fixes
- Security enhancements
- Resolved an issue for a subset of users regarding the Meeting has not started message being displayed incorrectly
January 30, 2022
New and enhanced features
- General features
- New Admin Policy
- AutoLoginWithChromeBookUserAccount - Auto-direct PWA login to Google Authentication page
To make login quicker and easier for Chromebook users, admins can set this policy to automatically direct PWA users to the Google Authentication page, where users can select their Google credentials.This does not apply if DisableGoogleLogin is set to True.
- AutoLoginWithChromeBookUserAccount - Auto-direct PWA login to Google Authentication page
- New Admin Policy
- Meeting/webinar features
- Enhanced registrant authentication option
Allows hosts to require webinar and meeting registrants be signed-in to the Zoom account associated with the email they registered to join this session with. If trying to join without being signed-in or signed-in with the wrong account, they will be notified and given the option to sign-in or switch account. - Save custom gallery view order
Meeting hosts can save the customized gallery view order for subsequent meetings. The customized gallery order is saved to each unique meeting ID, which allows the host to load the saved customized gallery order to avoid continually customizing the gallery order for each meeting.
- Enhanced registrant authentication option
- Meeting features
- Create, remove, rename breakout rooms after launch
Breakout rooms no longer need to be closed in order to rename or add/remove additional rooms. Account owners and admins can enable the ability for hosts to create, remove, and rename breakout rooms while they are open and in use. This feature must be enabled by Zoom.
- Create, remove, rename breakout rooms after launch
Resolved Issues
- Minor bug fixes
- Security enhancements
- Resolved an issue regarding dismissed Q&A submissions being seen by the submitter
January 14, 2022
Resolved issues
- Minor bug fixes
- Resolved an issue for a subset of users regarding a black screen seen instead of the intended shared content
January 2, 2021
New and enhanced features
- General features
- List of upcoming meetings
The PWA will now have an additional tab, where a list of upcoming meetings can be viewed and started. - Observe privacy settings of calendar events
When assigning scheduling privileges to other users in Zoom, users can choose if they can manage any meetings that were marked as private in Outlook or Google calendar. If they cannot manage private events, these users cannot see the invite link, meeting topic, or attendee list.
- List of upcoming meetings
- Meeting/webinar features
- Watermark enhancements
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. - Language support in the web client
The in-meeting user interface will display in the same language the web browser is set.
- Watermark enhancements
- Meeting features
- 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.
- Disable Broadcast Message from host to breakout rooms
Resolved Issues
- Minor bug fixes
- Security enhancements
- Resolved an issue for a subset of users regarding video quality being limited when a Teams room joins a Zoom meeting via guest join
November 28, 2021
New and enhanced features
- General features
- Relocation of hardware acceleration settings
Settings controlling use of hardware acceleration for incoming and outgoing video are relocated to the web client settings window, freeing up space on the meeting toolbar.
- Relocation of hardware acceleration settings
- Meeting/webinar features
- Wider availability for Gallery view
Gallery view will be available for use on more devices with lower-end hardware. Gallery view can be disabled by users if they experience low performance. - Compatibility enhancements for Smart Gallery
Various enhancements for how the web client handles the multi-stream Smart Gallery view from a Zoom Room, such as moving all Zoom Room participants into a Breakout Room together, in-meeting chat messages are sent to the Zoom Room as a whole (instead of sent to individual members), and assigning the Zoom Room host controls, rather than an individual participant.
- Wider availability for Gallery view
- Meeting features
- Add video to waiting room
Account owners, admins, and users can add a video when customizing the appearance of the waiting room in the web portal. Participants in the Waiting Room are able to view the video while they wait for the host to allow them into the meeting. This feature is available for all paid accounts.
- Add video to waiting room
- Webinar features
- Order Q&A chronologically or by upvotes
User submitted Q&A questions are sorted by default chronologically, with the most recent appearing at the bottom of the list. The host and panelists can also sort the questions by number of upvotes, to prioritize more popular questions. - Guest indicator for submitted Q&A
Questions submitted by external attendees in a webinar will be labeled with the Guest marker, to make it clearer which questions are internally or externally submitted.
- Order Q&A chronologically or by upvotes
Resolved Issues
- Minor bug fixes
- Security enhancements
- Resolved an issue for a subset of users regarding difficulties joining breakout rooms
October 31, 2021
Note: This PWA release was delayed until November 6, 2021.
New and enhanced features
- Meeting/webinar features
- Profile photos for in-meeting chat
In-meeting chat now displays the participants’ profile photos, just as they appear in Zoom Chat. If no image is available for a participant, the participant’s initials appear. The account owner and admins can enable this for use in the Account-level web settings, and users can also control this feature in the client settings as well. - Non-verbal feedback enhancement: Coffee cup
The Coffee cup option, indicating you are temporarily away from the meeting, is returning to Non-verbal feedback options in the web client. - Adjustable rectangle for virtual mask
The rectangle shape used as a mask can now be adjusted in shape and size.
- Profile photos for in-meeting chat
- Meeting features
- Two-way chat with Waiting Room participants
The meeting Host and Co-hosts can now chat back-and-forth with participants in the Waiting Room. Waiting Room messages can be sent to all participants in the Waiting Room or just individual participants. Only the host/co-host can see responses from those in the Waiting Room.
- Two-way chat with Waiting Room participants
Resolved Issues
- Minor bug fixes
- Security enhancements
October 17, 2021
Resolved issues
- Security enhancements
September 26, 2021
Note: The PWA/web client release has been delayed until October 3, 2021.
New and enhanced features
- Meeting/webinar features
- Upload custom mask backgrounds
Web client users can upload their own background for use with the masking feature in addition to the standard backgrounds provided by Zoom. The chosen background is persistent between sessions. Backgrounds uploaded by admins through the web portal are also available for use. - Poll access for alternative hosts
If meeting hosts add alternative hosts to their meeting, they can allow alternative hosts to add or edit polls. The alternative host in the meeting will have the additional in-meeting options to add or edit a poll, which launches the web portal to make the changes.
- Upload custom mask backgrounds
- Meeting features
- Participant attendance status
If the host has the Google or Outlook calendar integration configured, Zoom will display a list of others invited to the meeting but not yet in attendance, allowing for quick checks if everyone is in attendance yet. Their invite response (Accepted, Declined, Maybe) is listed with their name and the host can easily invite them to the meeting from the participants panel. This feature can be enabled for use in meetings at the Account-, Group-, and User-level web settings, and will initially be available only for free users as part of a beta. - Share screen 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. Any active sharing in the breakout sessions are interrupted and any annotation or whiteboarding prompts the sharer to save them before viewing the shared screen from the host. Host and participants must be using the web client or Zoom app version 5.7.0 or higher to utilize and see this feature.
- Participant attendance status
Resolved Issues
- Minor bug fixes
- Security enhancements
- Resolved an issue for a subset of users regarding joining a meeting from the waiting room
- Resolved an issue regarding user IDs generated for webhooks when joining through the web client without being authenticated
August 22, 2021
New and enhanced features
- General features
- New Admin Policy: SetAccountIDsRestricted
Admins can restrict the PWA to joining meetings hosted by specific account IDs. An admin will need to contact Zoom Support to acquire their account ID.
- New Admin Policy: SetAccountIDsRestricted
- Meeting/webinar features
- Mirror video support
The web client now supports the ability to mirror your view of your video stream. - Persistent device selection between sessions
When setting your preferred webcam, speaker, and microphone, this choice will be saved for your next use. Users can still quickly switch to other devices as needed. - Mute and Video Off when joining a recorded/live streamed meeting
When participants join 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. This brings the web client into parity with the desktop and mobile clients. - Support for additional reaction skin tones
Users can choose from more skin tones for their reactions, such as Raise Hand.
- Mirror video support
- Meeting features
- Support for Focus Mode
In focus mode, only the host can see participants’ videos or profile pictures when video is off. Additionally, participant’s screen sharing can only be viewed by the host, who can switch between multiple shared screens and optionally allow participants to view others’ shared screens.
- Support for Focus Mode
June 29, 2021
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