This 2.4 release contains multiple fixes including several improvements to external video, webcams, layouts and presentation.

Thanks to the community members who provided feedback to the earlier 2.4 releases!

HTML5 client

• feat: Implements a progress bar on external video for viewers. #14606 @gabriellpr
• fix(video): improvements to dynamic camera profiles #14592 @prlanzarin
• fix: Screenshare is not displayed to new users, if autoSwapLayout=true #14705 @ramonlsouza
• fix(external-video): Viewers can now mute/unmute their view of external video #14692 @gabriellpr
• fix: In Firefox, "Start a private chat" is always with hover style (2.4) #14682 @ramonlsouza
• fix(waiting-users): button cropped #14622 @frankemax
• fix: prevent redirect after feedback of user #14571 @JoVictorNunes (included during the pre-release period)
• fix: Presentation sometimes starts minimized (2.4.6) #14752 #14771 #14780 @ramonlsouza (included during the pre-release period)
• fix: Incorrect position of the microphone icon in the webcam box in RTL - BBB v2.4.5 #14796 @ramonlsouza (included during the pre-release period)
• chore: Update npm dependencies #14714 @antobinary
• chore: Pulled the latest 2.4 HTML5 locales from Transifex #14715

Core

• refactor(api): Deprecate password on the endpoints. #14668 ** this change was needed to facilitate some integration work. Note that this is not a breaking change. More detailed explanation: #14668 (comment) @GuiLeme
• fix(presentation): Fixed to the sudden change of presentation #14537 @GuiLeme
• fix(presentation) - Refactored temporaryPresId format to accept german umlauts #14779 @GuiLeme (included during the pre-release period)

build and configuration

• build: bump bbb-webrtc-sfu to v2.6.13 #14727 @prlanzarin

bbb-playback

A few improvements including the introduction of dark mode. Full release notes - https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bbb-playback/releases/tag/v3.4.0 @pedrobmarin

Release name

In case an administrator does not want to update to the latest bionic-240 version. Use as substitute to the -v argument in bbb-install.sh command
bionic-240-2.4.6
We still recommend using -v bionic-240.

Client build: 2554