La Apache Software Foundation announced several days ago the launch of the new version of Apache web conferencing server Open Meetings 6.1, It enables audio and video conferencing over the Web, as well as collaboration and messaging between participants.
In this new version of OpenMeetings 6.1 various bug fixes have been made of which most of them were focused on solving the problems that they were had in relation to the compatibility with some web browsers and also in the interface.
For those who are unfamiliar with OpenMeetings, you should know that this is web conferencing software that support both webinars with a speaker such as conferences with an arbitrary number of participants interacting with each other. The project code is written in Java and distributed under the Apache 2.0 license.
Additional features include: tools to integrate with a calendar scheduler, send individual or broadcast notifications and invitations, share files and documents, maintain the address book of the participants, keep a record of the event, schedule tasks together, transmit the results of running applications (screencast demonstration), conduct voting and voting.
A server can serve an arbitrary number of conferences held in separate virtual conference rooms and including its own set of participants. The server supports flexible permission management tools and a powerful conference moderation system. The management and interaction of the participants is done through the web interface.
Main new features of Apache OpenMeetings 6.1
In this new version that is presented, the developers emphasize that have made minor improvements to the web interface and has improved compatibility with web browsers, Besides that various bugs were fixed which greatly affected the operation, such as the audio / video test application did not work with Safari, there was no sound and the countdown did not work, there were file download failures, the tool did not display correctly, the recording The interview room did not work, the session ended unexpectedly, an empty user list in the presentation room, among other things.
In the part of the improvements that were implemented in this new version, this for example that in the "Admin -> Config" section you can now change themes, administrator permissions have been improved, an additional user-configurable menu has been added to rooms, localization of the date and time change form was improved, the stability of conference rooms was improved, and various related problems were resolved. with screen sharing.
Of the other changes that stand out in this new version:
- Solution to the error when pressing the Recording or Share-desktop buttons
- Updating new versions of the library
- Problems reported by Sonar were addressed
- Merging of Tag Contributions
- Improve file upload icon
- Help menu for the room
- Mark default group in admin-> groups
- Wigets-page: appearance and appearance like other lists
Finally if you want to know more about it About the release of this new version, you can check the details within the official announcement. The link is this.
How to get Apache OpenMeetings 6.1?
Finally, for those who are interested in being able to obtain this new version, can go to the official website of the project and in its download section you can find the binary packages, as well as the code for their compilation or also a Docker image already prepared.
While in the case of those who use Arch Linux and derivatives can find the package ready in AUR.
Also, you can follow the instructions detailed in this link, where you will simply have to download the latest stable application package, unpack and run the binary to start the web installer.